Rethink Reviews - Thank You for Smoking

Jonathan Kim explains how this movie relates to the current health care reform debate.

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[Kloxboy]

More Kim, I love stats.

[Aerotides]

so fucking sick of these Tiesto advertisements. You're killing me tyt.

[Aerotides]

@simplycrazytube Yes I have been enlightened since since that was posted.

[simplycrazytube]

@Aerotides (its called ad block plus ^_^)

[steelersguy74]

They made good points about media and political spin but didn't really have much to say about the movie itself.

[diomedes39]

@Kloxboy mmm mmm numbers

[thekurgan89]

Except that nothing you said is based on fact, just your perception of what you see. That's actually a really good example of one of the problems that is dominant on the left. Because you have a degree in mass communications, you think you know better than the rest of us and if we don't take your opinion as fact it means that we're just too ignorant to see the truth.

Obviously neither one of us is going to bend on this because of a youtube comment, so I say we agree to disagree.

[xJoeEDangerouslyx]

@thekurgan89 The two are not equivalent nor even close. I happen to have a degree in mass communications and a minor in Poli sci, so I sort of know how this stuff works.

Sorry it took so much space, but I think you should know the facts. I think everyone should. I think we need to spread knowledge so that people can stop being so afraid and manipulated.

[xJoeEDangerouslyx]

@thekurgan89There are exceptions, granted, but they are relatively few. Just look at the comments on TYT's clips, you will see an overwhelming amount of animosity from the ones who have bought into the right wing's lies. These obviously angry and fearful people are the ones to whom the right is appealing with this, and it works. It just isn't the same.

[xJoeEDangerouslyx]

@thekurgan89We must call out ignorance and intolerance in all its forms if we are to evolve as a society. conservatives engage in name calling and hurl insults when they are wrong and scare the other side into submission. That's why the Obama administration caves on issue after issue. The right knows how to use these tactics and the left just won't .

[xJoeEDangerouslyx]

@thekurgan89 By saying they label anyone who disagrees with selfishness, bigotry, racism and homophobia, you're missing the big picture. Liberals do not by and large label unjustly. When someone has racist arguments, they call it what it is, as with sexist, homophobic, or ones bigoted in other ways. But when it is not justified, they don't do it nearly as much as you think they do. But when it's justified, it should be used.

[xJoeEDangerouslyx]

@thekurgan89 Unfortunately, you are way over-generalizing. Democrats and progressives do believe themselves to be morally superior in that they believe in compassion and the good of the people over the gain of the individual to a much greater degree than the Republicans and conservatives do. Conservatives believe themselves to be morally superior as well through points of individual freedom and responsibility.