McConnell Is Baaaaack… And It’s Your Fault.
Mitch McConnell’s strategy of blaming everything that’s wrong in the world on Barack Obama has been wildly effective.
Tag: Jacques Ellul
The Paranoid Stylings Of Glenn Beck
Solange Uwimana over at Media Matters draws our attention to an interesting conjunction between Glenn Beck and the late Richard Hofstadter : The year Glenn Beck was born, Harper’s published an essay by Richard Hofstadter in which the historian explained a “style of mind” common among “extreme right-wingers” of his time. He referred to it as “the paranoid style” for …
Teabaggers Survey: A Racism To The Bottom
If the signs Teabaggers routinely display at various gatherings aren’t proof enough of their deep seated racism, a new NY Times / CBS survey should seal the deal. But before getting to the meat of the matter, some related stats to better understand who we are dealing with. According to the survey, Teabaggers… …are 18% of Americans and tend to …
Teabaggers Turn Their Ids Inside Out
Teabaggers threatening violence against health insurance reform That we are now firmly involved in what Jacques Ellul called the irreversible, integration/activation phase of a 30 year long corporatist propaganda campaign was on full display today at the nation’s Capitol. Hundreds of highly agitated Teabaggers, whipped into a frenzy by the demigods of right wing radio and television and a few …
Sarah Palin Meets The Matrix
When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant.
The Blind Leads the Blind
Great Big Baby and colossal shithead Glen Beck has become the de facto poster-tard of the — well— whatever-the-fuck you want to call them, out there on the fringes of sentient reality. And he’s now serving up shit that only his sheeple can appreciate; what the rest of us should recognize as classic sociological propaganda. The 9-12 Fool Festival was a very real attempt to impose this festering plate full of fecal goojoo on the rest of us.
Racism, Propaganda, And Health Care Reform
An attendee at today’s teabagger protest on the D.C. Mall In the never-ending triumph of form over substance, politics over policy, and emotionally charged food fights over actual debate, the MSM occasionally interjects some reality into their coverage of complex issues like health care reform. Example in a moment. Take the issue du jour— fictional health care insurance for non-documented immigrants, …
