How affective and callous is the right-wing media machine? Extremely. Consider this:
As the lives of millions of people were being completely destroyed and thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, were dying in Asia from the tsunami, (as of this writing, a confirmed 117,000 have perished, an estimated 400,000 may yet be found. 5,000,000 are believed to be without food, water or shelter.), the right-wing wurlitzer was busy working on a way to use the traqedy to it's advantage, in the ongoing effort to destroy the United Nations and bash liberals in general. After all, there are no sacred cows in the effort to maintain and grow the conservative power base, which is unified and energized by it's hate fueled tactic of blaming liberals and the UN for, well... everything. What's a little disaster as political fodder between patriots and traitors? So what if the United Nations mandate is as a humanitarian organisation. All is fair in love and war.
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