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A week of petty though typical attacks on Obama produced nothing
Will the 2008 election be dominated by the same type of small-minded, petty distractions that have characterized the last several decades of elections?
Glenn Greenwald [2008-02-20]

  • @Phoenix Woman

    Thanks for your information! I wonder, however, can just one man (Bill Simon) alone do so much? He must have had a great deal of help to swing our political discourse so drastically toward the cesspool we have had forced on us today.

    There's no doubt that the very rich right-wing foundations threw a lot of money into this effort. Then a deep-pocketed misanthrope like Rupert Murdoch came along and further polluted our discourse with a "news" network devoted exclusively to pushing right-wing ideas.

    And I wonder if the dumping of the fairness doctrine and the rise of media consolidation didn't also push us further along the path? Who was behind those outcomes anyway? I don't recall getting to vote on those insidious developments.

    In any event, it just staggers me that the ideas of the right-wing John Birch Society, which was considered a lunatic fringe group in the 1950s, have come to be not just accepted as a reasonable perspective but the dominant ideas of our time.

    -- Taobhan
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    Wednesday, February 20, 2008 01:04 PM
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