Posted by beardedlady on February 14, 2003, at 14:45:40
In reply to Re: State of the Union speech.... » Ritch, posted by IsoM on February 14, 2003, at 11:38:06
> I really am apolitical - there's not one political agenda out there that's not inherently self-centred AND very selfish too.
I'm not apolitical at all, but I agree with your second comment.
> Besides the humour in the altered state of the union speech, I posted the link for another reason too. If a kid can make an altered speech (which is obvious - it's not done that well) saying something Bush didn't say, then how hard is it to alter any one else's word on tape or video when done by experts? I think more & more people are coming to understand how easy it is to manipulate the words coming from the "enemy camp".
In my first post, I mentioned how my husband believed the White House sort of whipped something up. He LOVED your link and spent the better part of an hour looking for a tape recorder so he could take it in and share it with his students--just to say, "look what technology can do!" He was really tickled with it and told me it was evidence of the point he was trying to make (which is similar to what you said).
Although I know we have the technology to do it, I wonder if it's feasible to cheat the country that way. Wouldn't too many people have to be sworn to secrecy? Wouldn't it leak out that the tapes were fabricated? Wouldn't someone succumb to honesty? (Wouldn't he be killed first? : ) )
I dunno. I'm not naive, I just would like to live in a fantasy world--one in which wars are fought at the Olympics.
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