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Saturday, July 26, 2008

Projection much?
Posted by Jill | 8:20 AM
Oh, this is just hilarious...or it would be if we had a population that was even halfway paying attention and had even a little bit of skepticism about what's shown them on the network news at night.

Here's Dan Abrams from Thursday night. The segment exposing Faux Noise for using footage from 2000 and passing it off as current in an effort to make John McCain appear younger and more in possession of his faculties than he is today is appalling enough. But watch Ben Stein and Glenn Beck having the vapors about the plans for Barack Obama to give his speech at the Democratic National Convention in front of 75,000 people (because that many people want to hear it):





"Authoritarian." "Hitler." Only Republican authoritarians like Stein and Beck could turn charisma and popularity into something dark and ominious and a sign of a new Reich. Funny, these guys didn't utter a peep when George W. Bush, a president who may not have held all of the American people in thrall, but who certainly held the entire Washington press insiders in thrall when he stuffed his flightsuit full of socks and strutted across the deck of an aircraft carrier, said on three separate documented occasions that he'd rather be a dictator. Funny, these guys didn't utter a peep when Ari Fleischer said that people have to watch what they say, watch what they do. Funny, these guys didn't utter a peep while George W. Bush has swept up the mass communications of untold millions of Americans who are not suspected of anything.

Considering how so-called pundits like Beck and Stein have worshipped the projection of manly authority that we've seen in George Bush and Dick Cheney for the past eight years, it seems just a bit disingenuous for them to be screaming "Hitler" because the Democrats are about to put on a spectacle featuring a highly charismatic candidate. It seems just a bit too similar to the way conservatives froth at the mouth at the mere mention of the words "gay marriage." Methinks they protesteth too much.

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Blogger Melina said...
Dan Abrams unleashed is pretty freakin' excellent!...I like to see this kind of reporting but I wish that it was viewed with more gravity. If this conspiracy of disinformation were traced in a serious way back to the beginning of this Bush mess, there might be criminal liability to discuss. Its not as fun as catching them in silliness, but when you look at the whole thing its pretty crushing.
7/26/08, 9:32 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Meanwhile, has anybody considered the prospect of l'affaire Michael Savage bringing about a major reassessment of the talkback-radio genre, including wholesale soul-searching to the point of possible mass format changes?
7/26/08, 2:22 PM  
Blogger D. said...
iludiumphosdex: one might wish.

Otherwise: That's the logical conclusion, but these folks have been sidestepping logic as though it were a rattlesnake for a long time now.
7/26/08, 2:50 PM  
Blogger Bob said...
Media cultural reassessments are market driven. There are two groups in America that never quite get this; partisan political liberals & the Christian right. The Christian right speaks through popular wingnuts like Limburger, but their own culture remains niche. It's so fabulously profitable, so widespread, & accompanied by so much political power, that they can't understand why it's not the dominant culture. So they think it's a conspiracy of liberal New Tork & Hollywood Jews.
7/26/08, 2:55 PM  
Blogger Steve said...
The Christian right speaks through Limbaugh? Didn't know that.

The guy who goes off to Santa Domingo with a bottle of Viagra on a vacation with the "boys"?
The only purpose of said vacation, carrying a full monty along, had to have fornication as a prime objective, perhaps, even homosexual in nature, or as also been suggested, involving the well known Dominican Republic's child prostitution trade.

He must be speaking for those very rich and very blind, or excessively tolerant, Christians.
7/26/08, 6:24 PM  
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