Letters to the Editor
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@ Glenn
"Then again, the performance was very Clintonesque -- showing up to defend Yearly Kos and therefore hoping to gain the affection of liberals, while doing it in a very placid and half-hearted way, treating O'Reilly with great respect, and hoping to also gain the affection of the right/Fox audience. That is Clintonism in a nutshell."
Right on target as usual. That smacks of the "ends justify the means" rationalization that has done so much damage to our country and its freedoms. When you use political operatives who have been at the game too long, they start smelling like the opposition. Politics as usual is not want many Americans are looking for in 2008.
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It's not pretty, but its standard politics and even ethical
Right on target as usual. That smacks of the "ends justify the means" rationalization that has done so much damage to our country and its freedoms. When you use political operatives who have been at the game too long, they start smelling like the opposition. Politics as usual is not want many Americans are looking for in 2008.
-- Retired Military Patriot
There are other ways of "winning" that are far less standard and ethical. We've seen it consistently for the last 10 or more years.
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mon sem-blabble, mon frer(epublic)
Pointing out hypocrisy in the rhetoric of today's pseudo-conservatives is like shooting feces in a toilet; it's impossible to miss. Criticism is almost unnecessary--one need only do as Mr. Greenwald suggests, and repeat the person's words back to them. (This is precisely why folks like O'Reilly detest sites like Media Matters--all his bullying comments are right there for all to read.)
Yet there are two sets of questions I have here; the first is more academic, the latter is quite practical.
1. How is it that people become so ideologically warped that they start calling for the death/imprisonment/deportation of those with whom they disagree? (This goes for the Stalinist left two, of course, but there aren't a whole lot of those backing major US parties these days.) Is it fear? Ignorance? Being completely seperated from those they condemn? Is bigotry innate? On an interpersonal level, it possible to change the mind of a person like Malkin? Or are they so committed to their prejudices that any BS appeal to the emotions of their target audience is preferrable to rationally questioning their own beliefs, and they should simply be ignored entirely?
2. On a broader level: Aside from merely repeating people's foolish comments, how do we overcome such putrid dialogue in the political sphere? This is important, because the Right has gotten awfully good at spewing this stuff--witness most talk-shows these days--and it is practically addictive for quite lot of people, so much so that once convinced on an emotional level, people will simply disregard basic and obvious facts as meer "Liberal MSM Lies." (It's the intellectual equivalent of getting a cavity from too many sweets, and then insisting cotton candy is the only thing that will cure your aching teeth.) Obviously, Freedom of Speech trumps any nause--er, I mean, disagreement--that the Wingnut-talkies might cause; that is to say, we can't simply shut them up, because they have just as much a right to make fools of themselves as the average citizen--they just exercise it far more often, is all. How does one get the word out that these extremists are being dishonest and belligerent--and that they represent, sadly, quite a lot of those who currently have power in the GOP?
Anyone's thoughts would be appreciated on either/any of the above questions.
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It's just another display of Republican strengthiness
Republicans display strengthiness to each other, and truthiness to the rest of us.
This is just another display. Psychopathy has that hardbody look, y'know? -
@lknlkn
Anyone's thoughts would be appreciated on either/any of the above questions.
-- lknlkn
It is all right here and Glenn has written on this extensively in his first book and probably in his second and in previous posts.
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/
Paul Rosenberg has some excellent posts on the subject at MyDD.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/3/1/10446/24377
Google around with Authoritarians/Right Wing Authoritarians
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Why Not Give O'Reilly and Malkin a Taste Of Their Own Medicine?
MichelleMalkin.com's blogroll contains some of the most vile hate sites on the internet. It would be fairly easy to pick out some heinous quotes by the authors of those blogs and start a writing campaign(perhaps using the Great Orange Satan as a vehicle) to The Factor's sponsors. Remember, these wouldn't be annonymous reader comments, they would be actual blog posts by authors that Malkin herself promotes on her website. Isn't it time that Malkin, the commentator and frequent guest host on a popular TV Show, had to answer for her promotion of hatred, bigotry, and violence?
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the news?
What's unbelievable and scary to me is that O'Reilly was able to use his position of power and influence (on a major "News" network) to muscle JetBlue into backing out of commitments made to YearlyKos. Based on a lie.
The motherfucker makes a blatantly misleading association between the content of DailyKos and posts made by some outlying segment of its readership, goes unchallenged by the institutions that support him, and convinces enough of his sheep viewers to call Jetblue in protest, resulting in their actions. This was one of the worst possible outcomes, considering that Jetblue's response damages the perceived legitimacy of Daily Kos!
And very disappointing to see a Clinton staffer go on his program and fail to defend their attendance at DailyKos. Clinton was smart enough to stay out of the Fox News debates, why aren't her staffers staying away from one of the worst possible places for a Democrat to go? Democrats / Progressives shouldn't be going anywhere near Fox News. The whole operation is a sham and they will use every trick in the book to make a Democrat look bad.
Am I the only one who thinks that major cable networks shouldn't be allowed to push so much editorial content and still legally call themselves "news" networks?
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I know it's childish...
But...
Slattern
There, I feel better.
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Pro Abortion/Anti Choice
The existence of vermin like Malkin, O'reilly, Coulter, Limbaugh, et el, makes a wonderful case for abortions and for not giving women pregnant with the likes of them a choice in the matter.