Posted on 04/22/2008 1:49:18 PM PDT by The_Republican
One of the main themes of my new book, Right Is Wrong, is the role the media have played in allowing the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party -- the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- to hijack our democracy. I document how the real problem comes not from Fox News or the likes of Limbaugh and O'Reilly, but from a mainstream media that has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become a part of its DNA.
And the media seem intent on confirming this point again and again and again.
The first of the latest round of exhibits proving that the Karl Rove playbook has become the MSM's bible was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. The uproar that followed made it seem as if this kind of behavior was an aberration but, in fact, this has been going on for years -- only in a less concentrated form.
Next came a double-whammy in Sunday's New York Times. First up was David Barstow's epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the mainstream media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms.
It was -- and, indeed, continues to be -- a propagandists' field day. And while the moral bankruptcy of the "military analysts" -- many of whom now admit to promoting "facts" they knew to be untrue -- is astounding, it is more than matched by the bankrupt behavior of the media mavens who enabled the Pentagon disinformation campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
This just in from Bizarro World ...
Arianna is one of those people that does make you believe that torture can have a place in American society. It’s also pretty clear she’s not evolved a second.
Arianna is one of those people that does make you believe that torture can have a place in American society. It’s also pretty clear she’s not evolved a second.
What a God-awful, brainless, dingbat goose!
Other than marrying a fudgepacker and having a cute Greek accent, what has Arianna Huffington actually accomplished in her life?
If you want to know Obama’s inner female, read Huffington.
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is there anything or anyone more unpleasant than huffianna ?
Wonder what color the sky is over there? She should write about that, it would make as much sense.
Hard to take seriously anyone obsessed with Karl Rove.
Hey Arianna! You can EXHALE now.
Not one of the sharpest tools in the drawer, is she?
At least her book title is spot-on.
Freaking nut bar.
Listening to Ariana’s voice for more than 2 minutes...now THAT’S what I call torture.
Arianna is one of those people that does make you believe that torture can have a place in American society.
Have you heard her voice? She is walking torture! Just imagine playing Arianna’s voice over loudspeakers all day long - make you want to beat your head against a brick wall!
I listen when the third Gabor sister talks about a lunatic fringe.
...the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- to hijack our democracy.
The word democracy doesn't appear once in the Constituiton (but Republican does). Why is it always those on the mega, ultra, hyper, fringe, far, socialist left who insist on being so demonstrably wrong about our government?
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