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Joe Shlabotnik

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6. Chomsky:

Reply to to_be_rational (Reply #5)

Fri Nov 21, 2014, 01:31 AM

Nov 2014

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

CBC (ie govt. mouthpiece) buried a story and rightly or wrongly threw Ghomeshi under the bus in order to avoid the CSEC scandel.

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The Glenn Greenwald story that brought down Jian Ghomeshi [View all] arikara Nov 2014 OP

yep riverbendviewgal Nov 2014 #1

Totally poor form on Brown's part HEyHEY Nov 2014 #2

His story is how the story was stonewalled arikara Nov 2014 #3

Yes, but he never tells us what the story was HEyHEY Nov 2014 #4

The power of public hysteria to_be_rational Nov 2014 #5

Chomsky: Joe Shlabotnik Nov 2014 #6