leeneia - I too think that the article has a hidden agenda (As do a great many articles we read! Perhaps most of them.)

Nevertheless, it drew my attention to something that seems worth looking into further. Its hidden agenda might be:

- partly wrong
- partly right
- completely wrong
- or completely right

I don't know. But I do find it interesting. Most viewpoints that are out there are at least a partial grasp of the truth. Very few of them are a complete grasp of the truth.

Bush's phony propaganda spin to launch the Iraq War, for example, had a few bits of factual info sprinkled like salt and pepper through a much larger web of innuendo, scaremongering, and outright lies (about nonexistent WMDs and supposed links between Saddam and Al Quaeda). Most hidden agenda messages contain some truth and some falsehood. The challenge is to sort out the one from the other, and that takes time and diligence.