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 ...
Consolation:
Huffington approved the publishing, the breaking of, Obama’s “bitter” comments.
She’s a big Obama supporter and didn’t think it would hurt him.
Ignorance and schadenfreude together.
Poor Arianna. Since she first learned their Filipino houseboy was shtuping her husband, she’s never been the same since.
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A cleverly baited and manipulative column by Arianna. Is her website not doing so good?
“To see what counts just take any celebrity or wannabe and do a google.com search. Type in the name, then type in the word “naked” immediately following.”
Oh God no, dont do it ... she was in the sack on Comedy Central with Al Franken. It’s been downhill ever since.
That’s what they really did at Abu Ghraib.
How do you think we got all our information from the terrorists? It wasn’t water boarding, it was....Ariana - the mother of torture tactics. ;)
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