Lemmings Don’t Jump Off Cliffs
As The Corbett Report community notes, lemmings jumping from cliffs is a figment of Walt Disney’s imagination, not a real phenomenon. So how else has our perception of the world been shaped by the media?
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The Dead Kennedys touched upon this Disney charade in their punk-rock song “Potshot Heard Round the World.” The relevant refrain, “Ever notice news Is staged like TV wrestling shows with Reagans and Khaddafis cast as Cartoon villains and heroes or those wildlife documentaries, where a Lion from a zoo kills a deer tied down ahead of time at the perfect Camera angle when lemmings balk at dying for Disney they’re just Hurled off the cliff.”
