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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: geode00 who wrote (50714)	6/23/2005 2:02:11 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Re: I'm just not sure that the corporate media really understands their complicity in the Iraq war....yet. In that case, I will simply continue to try to convince you that the media is vastly better informed than you think, and that they are vastly cynical about their role in society. Here's an infamous quote that goes a long way toward suggesting that you are mistaken to believe that the media is simply ignorant of the facts: "There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows." —Katharine Graham, chairman of the board, The Washington Post Company, 1988 geode00, your belief that the media is ignorant reminds me of just how well George Bush was able to get millions of liberals to believe the fairy tale that Bush is stupid and illiterate, or at least somebody who ought to be misunderestimated. Karl Rove is laughing hysterically at how well he's been able to create a puppet-on-a-string charade featuring a phony who is so ill-spoken that the American public want to have a beer with the Chimp. Politics is acting. Once you see everything that Bush does in this light, it makes his gaffes, his bluster and his phony accent much more understandable as Machiavellian media manipulations. *** Re: Schultz's show just got bought out. Hmmm. Will he survive as the 'liberal' or will he get morphed into being a conservative again? Excellent! You move to the head of the class. Not one liberal in a hundred sees the game that being played out with "Big Eddie". I couldn't agree with you more. I think Big Eddie is going to be the big morph into the new Blunderbuss of the Righteous. Watch his moves. He's got the progressive bleeding heart types sizing him up, but Big Eddie will move to where he thinks the ratings are. He said as much on C-SPAN's Washington Journal when he was just starting out on his new adventure in syndicate-style radio racketeering. Re: Is radio really looking for a different kind of talker or just a replacement should Limbaugh actually go to jail. If you tune out the content and just listen to Big Eddie's banter as an emotional cue, he's almost a ringer for Rush. The same sort of sonority, the same sort of contrived outrage at trivialities. The same unwillingness to confront the government as an evil affront to the Constitution and the vision of the Founding Fathers. As far as Rush Limbaugh going to jail.... well, let's just say that the GOP controls Florida and its prosecutors. Limbaugh works for the GOP. Ain't gwanna be no prosecutin' dat man.