Look at some of the posts above, Peace, and decide whether or not any of those people deverve the designation of asshole. If I knew German I might be tempted.

Yeah, TV's a mind killer. Laugh tracks are pretty harmless, as is music in movies. It irritates me when you get a music cue telling you that you need to feel sad now or light-hearted. Good movie music is too subtle to tip that off. No such thing as a subtle laugh track.

But his stuff I'm addressing now is pretty sinister. I quit watching TV after 9/11 because Fox news told me 1) our intelligence agencies were totally incompetent and didn't see it coming, and then 2) the deed was done by bin Laden and he was in Afghanistan. I mean, come on. You can't have that both ways. That's when I knew I was being lied to, but I persisted watching for that day out of interest in the way the propaganda was being presented, and one of the things we picked up on was the low-frequency audio. If the talking heads were reading obviously scripted, lie-in-my face copy like that, no telling what was in the subliminals.