Mind on Money

Mad as Hell

December 27, 2011 at 1:56 pm | Posted in wall street | 14 Comments

Joe Nocera had one of those excellent moments last week — what I call an “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore” moments.

While not as universally applicable as the disgust and anger the 1976 cult classic movie portrayed, Nocera was pointing out how outright propaganda machines masquerading as tax-exempt and subsidized think tanks can create an alternate reality out of whole cloth, and how our main stream media and Congress adopt and spread that propaganda.  In this case, his target was one of the more dishonest Resident Scholars at the American Enterprise Institute, and his widely repeated lies. Continue Reading Mad as Hell…