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Originally Posted by adaher
Because Ramsey Clark is a non-entity. People always wonder why the Noam Chomskys, Harold Pinters, Ramsey Clarks, et al never get press coverage here, while appearing on European networks fairly frequently. The reason is that Americans don't particularly think they have anything intelligent to say.
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I find a lot of Americans very often ignore things because they don't UNDERSTAND what some people are saying. Not that those people you mentioned are particularly brilliant (I don't even KNOW who Pinter is.) but that there are many people a lot LESS intelligent. People don't care to be thought of as stupid and they really hate to think it themselves so they just ignore/dismiss what they don't understand.
Right wingers are good for that. As far as international affairs such as the war we are engaged in are concerned, they see the world through the eyes of Sam Peckinpah. It's clean and it's easy. If something is too complex or doesn't fit their notion of what's right, just shoot it.