I'm not being facile if I say that it's manufacturing consent all the way down. It doesn't matter if Anderson Cooper reads off a teleprompter or he ad libs. The content is the same. It's only the phrasing that's different.

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Oh, fuck! I'm having temporary computer memory problems and I can't find a quotation from Chomsky that I like. I may reply again later. "Oh, fuck!"? I really said that? It's just a basically-nothing first-world problem. How very quickly I complain.

Wait a minute. Is that mic on. Um... This is a bit. Of course.