America, Americans, should be focused on any number of serious issues right now:

• The abominable War on Cops

• The ongoing Islamist terror attacks – so tragically frequent now it’s difficult to keep track of the cities and body counts

• Turkey’s transition from a secular nation to an Islamic theocracy

• The now-irrefutable proof that Barack Obama lied about the Iranian nuke deal
 

And – the most news-worthy story from the Cleveland convention thus far –
• the way the GOP establishment ruthlessly steamrolled grassroots efforts to create more equitable rules
 
Instead, yesterday, from the mainstream media – and even from much of the newer alternative media – we get this!
 

 
Misdirecting the sheeple with virtual nonsense. Neglecting news that really matters – ignoring events, the consequences of which may eventually effect the lives of every American – the MSM has managed to distract, dumb-down and brainwash the majority of the Americans. We’ve become a pack of inattentive canines.
 
 
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Related:
Melania Trump’s Pseudo-Crime ~

Melania’s offense, that her speechwriter (nice working with you!) stole some passages from Michelle Obama’s speechwriter, belongs in the register of grave crimes against the customs of pseudo-events. Modern national conventions, as perfect a form of pseudo-event as you could ask for, involve a series of people reading words written for them by someone else. If the speaker gives a good performance, bleats authoritatively according to the dictates of the teleprompter, really puts some life into it, the members of the press dutifully advise the nation to approve, and to consider handing the speaker or his candidate the nuclear codes. If he flubs it, no matter his other qualities and qualifications beyond being a TV performer, the press mocks him and invites the nation to join in. […]
 
None of this really excuses Melania’s speechwriter’s plagiarism, which is ridiculous. But this is all ridiculous, and says nothing good about the health of our democracy.