THERE YOU GO AGAIN!!!
MORE TO SAY
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WHERE IN THE WORLD IS GW
IT'S ABOUT TIME
I found this on a WEB Site called The Daily Howler ( go here ). <----( click Archives 2007 for Jan 16, 2007. )
This article talks about something that has bugged me for a long time. That is taking a SMAL, INSIGNIFICANT comment and blowing it all out of shape til it no longer has the original meaning.
They do the same thing with audio and video with what I call selective editing. They take a piece of audio/video and cut it in such a way that it changes the meaning altogether.
I wish some of the talking heads and pundits on the democratic side would stand up to these attacks and point out what was really said.
SPECIAL REPORT: TAKE BACK THE LIGHT!
BOXER (1/11/07): The Military Times published a poll which found that only 35 percent of military members approved of the way President Bush is handling this war, and only 38 percent thought there should be more troops. So from where I sit, Madame Secretary, you are not listening to the American people. You are not listening to the military. You are not listening to the bipartisan voices from the Senate. You are not listening to the Iraq Study Group. Only you know who you are listening to, and you wonder why there is a dark cloud of skepticism and pessimism over this nation.
I think people are right to be skeptical after listening to some of the things that have been said by your administration...
Now, the issue is, Who pays the price-who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, within immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families, and I just want to bring us back to that fact...
Huh! The military and their families pay the price in Iraq! Boxer's insight was less than startling. But just like that, it happened again-the pseudo-con Wurlitzer swung into action. Operating in standard bad faith, spinners manufactured a troubling "scandal" from the one small part of Boxer's remarks-the part we've highlighted above.
Uh-oh! Boxer dissed Condi because she's unmarried, pseudo-con spinners were quickly asserting. Because she doesn't have any kids! Of course, this didn't exactly make perfect sense, since Boxer had said that she herself wouldn't "pay the price" in Iraq, just as Condi wouldn't be paying it. But so what! The usual suspects were soon complaining about Boxer's deeply troubling insult to Rice. (Big-name example tomorrow.) But so it has gone for the past fifteen years as a clownish noise machine has made a vast joke of our public discourse. So it has gone for the past fifteen years as this brainless noise machine has made a vast joke of Americans' lives.
We have become the joke-and the scourge-of the world because of our fake, phony discourse.
How dumb was the "scandal" ginned up from this comment? Let's put it this way: Even Fred Hiatt could see right through it, writing in the Washington Post. But for the past fifteen years, conservative spinners have engaged in this tactic. They've created absurd and pointless "scandals" out of meaningless comments and actions. Most significantly, they did so for two years during Campaign 2000, thereby sending Bush to the White House. We hold these hearings on Iraq today because the press corps behaved this way then-because our discourse was endlessly driven by phony, ginned-up pseudo-scandals.
Today, even the Hiatts can see through the flimflam; Bush's war has gone so wrong that even these pundits are now speaking up when his minions misdirect, distract, misconceive. But for the past fifteen years, our discourse has been built on misdirection-and the mainstream press has agreed not to notice. It's time for sane people to take back the discourse, as women once vowed to take back the night. But to do that, we have to get clear on what has been done to make our discourse such a joke all these years.
In the past few days, we've seen the techniques again. Do rational people plan to take back the discourse? If so, we have to take back their endless "scandals"-and we have to take back the other techniques that they've used for the past fifteen years.
TOMORROW: Take back the trivia.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD
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Keith Olbermann picks the three worst persons in the world.
PRETTY GOOD JOKES
PAPER CUTS
BOOKS YOU WILL NEVER FIND IN A BOOKSTORE
Peace Of Mind By Losing Complete Control For Sixteen Hours a Day
Poems For the Insane
Re-organizing Your Pockets
Rid Yourself Of Doubt--Or Should You?
Self Mutilation As an Attention Getter
Six Cities No One Has Ever Been To
Six Ways To Fuck Up Before Breakfast
Six-Hundred Ways To Give People the Shaft
Sixty-four Good Reasons For Giving Up Hope
Posted by thebscorner at January 18, 2007 06:53 AM
