{"id":1172,"date":"2003-01-07T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2003-01-07T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/8stars.org\/aa\/2003\/01\/07\/unintended-irony\/"},"modified":"2003-01-07T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2003-01-07T18:01:24","slug":"unintended-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8stars.org\/a\/2003\/01\/07\/unintended-irony\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintended irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burningbird <a href=\"http:\/\/weblog.burningbird.net\/fires\/000793.htm\">writes<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adcouncil.org\/campaigns\/campaign_for_freedom\/\">a series of public-service announcements<\/a> (available for download):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All the ads are intended to &#8216;inform&#8217; the American public about what will happen if we don&#8217;t continue to support the war on Terror. All horrifyingly demonstrating the reality of what is happening to this country <i>because<\/i> of the war on terror.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch. One ad illustrates &#8220;freedom&#8221;: a shopping cart rolling through a grocery store aisle, with 10 kinds of bread, 50 kinds of breakfast cereal, etc. This is an unintended tribute to George Carlin&#8217;s observation that &#8220;freedom&#8221; in this country means we&#8217;ve got 37 different kinds of mustard, but no real political options. Another shows a guy asking for a banned book at a library and immediately being grabbed by the cops&#8211;too close to what&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headlines02\/0624-07.htm\">already happening<\/a> at libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burningbird writes about a series of public-service announcements (available for download): All the ads are intended to &#8216;inform&#8217; the American public about what will happen if we don&#8217;t continue to support the war on Terror. All horrifyingly demonstrating the reality of what is happening to this country because of the war on terror. Ouch. 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