Tag: Fox News

It’s Not Racism When THEY Do it

Late last week, Democratic-leaning pollster Stan Greenberg released a focus group study showing that conservative GOP base voters live in an alternative universe of their own political paranoia. In this world, President Obama is ruthlessly advancing a secret agenda to ruin — yes, ruin — the economy so he can impose socialism upon the United States and destroy the core civil liberties of American democracy. And in this covert crusade, Obama is no more than a frontman for unseen interests aiming to annihilate the United States.

Propaganda Douche

…the entire Republican party now openly defines itself
[as] blatantly racist, sexist, repressed, exclusionary,
and permanently addicted to the politics of fear and rage.

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, …

Playing The Death Card

Jacques Ellul points out the key role that “power words” play… …to break the barrier of the individual’s indifference. They must penetrate like bullets; they must spontaneously evoke a set of images and and have a certain grandeur of their own timeliness…To the extent that propaganda is based on current events , it cannot permit time for thought or reflection. …

On What Planet Do You Spend Most Of Your Time?

Let me get this straight: A LaRouchie stands up at a town hall meeting and demands to know why a Congressman who happens to be Jewish and gay (two categories of people who were mercilessly murdered by Hitler’s goons) is supporting President Obama’s “Nazi” health care reform proposals… And all Fux News can complain about is how rude Barney Frank …

Evolution Of Wingnut Deception Routines

“Look out behind you!” – An ancestral Rethuglican deception ploy The ability of primates to deceive a perceived competitor for access to resources or mates conferred obvious survival advantages on those who mastered it. So successful were the results that their victims had to develop effective countermeasures. In time, they evolved the ability to detect physiological clues– facial expressions, vocal …

Fourth-Degree Burns Not Torture

WASHINGTON D.C. — An apparently tough as nails Sean Hannity of Fox News has personally undergone what he called a “fair and balanced interrogation technique” to prove a point: fourth-degree burns are not torture.