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Nah.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure it\u2019s just a coincidence.\u00a0 Over at Mark Shea\u2019s blog, he finds an article from The Daily Caller<\/a>, in which we are informed that poll numbers strongly suggest that the majority of Americans are a bit nervous about Obama\u2019s naked attack on Religious Liberty.\u00a0 Of course this isn\u2019t how it\u2019s being played in the ministry of propaganda.\u00a0 Across most of the MSM, including the very poll\u00a0cited in the NYT,\u00a0the narrative is one of helpless damsels being assaulted by some invisible attack on women.\u00a0 Naturally, the MSM assures us that all good Americans care about women\u2019s health.\u00a0 OK, they probably do.\u00a0 Thus, somewhere along the line this is all supposed to play out in a way that suggests Americans care about women and don\u2019t want to see them attacked, therefore most Americans support Obama\u2019s HHS mandate.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Just for safe measure, this is covered with a liberal<\/a> helping<\/a> of stories<\/a> and segments constantly reminding us that the greatest human tragedy since the Holocaust was not the Killing Fields of Cambodia, but instead was Rush Limbaugh\u2019s unparalleled attack on the dignity of womanhood.\u00a0 The hope being, again,\u00a0to keep Americans\u2019 eyes off the assault on fundamental rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n

The good news?\u00a0 Despite joke jockeys, legal zealots, and a propaganda media firmly in the tank of select political power structures, Americans aren\u2019t buying it.\u00a0 At least not the majority.\u00a0 The bad news, of course, is that so many Americans have been swayed into thinking that the most important rights that the Constitution protects are the rights to decadence, debauchery, narcissism and hedonism.\u00a0 That such a number would see the rights to freedom of religion and freedom of speech as somehow subordinate to those less visible rights contained between the lines of our founding documents, shows just how far from the intellectual tree of our founding has the fruit of post-Baby Boomer America truly fallen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"