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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Whom should we believe?
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Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 14:06:39 EST
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In article <1658@decwrl.UUCP> schneider@2littl.DEC (DANIEL SCHNEIDER) writes:
>
>A few days ago I was flipping through the cable channels and I came
>upon similar footage, where a pitiful, elderly, toothless man was 
>sitting in his hut talking softly.  The captions went similarly:
>the soldiers had been doing all the harm.  When this segment finished
>a narrator continued the story of how "good" the contras are and likewise
>how "evil" the Sandinistas.  When the narrator finished the scene was back 
>to a TV studio where who was requesting money?  Why good ol' Jerry Falwell.
>You're keeping fine company Eduardo.  

This is typical of those who don't have any good arguments against
opposing views: they then try to discredit one by drawing bad analogies.
The fact is this footage was shown on the Mexican television evening news,
NOT on any fund raising program. Sure, you can say now that Mexico is
pro-US in their central american policies but I bet you'll have a hard
time trying to sell that.

I have no reason to believe that news report any more or less than I
believe news reports about the contras killing innocent people. Do you?

Trying to believe in only one side of the story and just discredit
any facts supporting the other side is like lying to yourself.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
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