Wake Up And Smell The Stench Coming From America's Angry Right!
"Part of America’s ongoing political crisis is that Official Washington remains cowed by the angry Right, even as it engages in subtle and not-so-subtle appeals to bigotry and invitations to violence. As the outrages mount, most of the national press corps prefers to look the other way [...]
Even as the rhetoric from right-wing and neoconservative voices has crossed the line into bigotry and implicit advocacy of violence, most of the U.S. news media continues to act as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening. [...]
No one even blinks an eye when Washington Post neo-con columnist Charles Krauthammer slyly promotes the bigoted right-wing canard that Obama is a secret Muslim by referring to the President’s recent trip to Cairo, Egypt, as “his ‘Muslim world’ pilgrimage.” [Washington Post, June 12, 2009]
There’s barely a shrug when Fox News star host Glenn Beck (who was a long-time feature on CNN’s Headline News) muses about an armed insurrection, denounces Obama’s efforts to salvage the U.S. auto industry as “progressive fascism,” or invites on right-wing guests to define “progressives” as people who want “to progress” away from the U.S. Constitution. [...]
Official Washington often acts like some primitive community living in the shadow of a rumbling volcano, eager to demonstrate obeisance to the volcano gods and fearful that any show of defiance might start a full-scale eruption.
It seems that the only time mainstream U.S. journalists beat their breasts is when they detect a challenge to the still-prevailing free-market theology.
For instance, CNBC – the premier U.S. business channel – has become home to a growing fury toward any “government” interference in the market, as if the theories of self-regulating markets and the perceived wisdom of financial gurus like Alan Greenspan hadn’t been blown apart by a financial meltdown that threatened to create a new Great Depression."
Robert Parry
'Excusing Outrages Of The Right'
Consortium News
June 15, 2009
Even as the rhetoric from right-wing and neoconservative voices has crossed the line into bigotry and implicit advocacy of violence, most of the U.S. news media continues to act as if nothing out of the ordinary is happening. [...]
No one even blinks an eye when Washington Post neo-con columnist Charles Krauthammer slyly promotes the bigoted right-wing canard that Obama is a secret Muslim by referring to the President’s recent trip to Cairo, Egypt, as “his ‘Muslim world’ pilgrimage.” [Washington Post, June 12, 2009]
There’s barely a shrug when Fox News star host Glenn Beck (who was a long-time feature on CNN’s Headline News) muses about an armed insurrection, denounces Obama’s efforts to salvage the U.S. auto industry as “progressive fascism,” or invites on right-wing guests to define “progressives” as people who want “to progress” away from the U.S. Constitution. [...]
Official Washington often acts like some primitive community living in the shadow of a rumbling volcano, eager to demonstrate obeisance to the volcano gods and fearful that any show of defiance might start a full-scale eruption.
It seems that the only time mainstream U.S. journalists beat their breasts is when they detect a challenge to the still-prevailing free-market theology.
For instance, CNBC – the premier U.S. business channel – has become home to a growing fury toward any “government” interference in the market, as if the theories of self-regulating markets and the perceived wisdom of financial gurus like Alan Greenspan hadn’t been blown apart by a financial meltdown that threatened to create a new Great Depression."
Robert Parry
'Excusing Outrages Of The Right'
Consortium News
June 15, 2009
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Posted by
Anonymous |
4:00 pm, June 15, 2009
sometimes I wonder if they think and behave the way they do because of toilet training methods.
why do they think like that?
the fear of...?
Posted by
Oemissions |
9:32 pm, June 15, 2009
I like Robert Parry's analogy: "Official Washington often acts like some primitive community living in the shadow of a rumbling volcano, eager to demonstrate obeisance to the volcano gods and fearful that any show of defiance might start a full-scale eruption."
Posted by
leftdog |
11:02 pm, June 15, 2009
This was very much where I was going when I wrote the wading-through-pig-slop post back in October.
I just have not felt like writing much since, it started feeling more and more like casting a fishing lure into an empty septic tank. How many ways can I continue to express my absolute disgust?
We did take a step away from the brink at this last election but I have to wonder in the bigger picture if it's only a temporary reprieve on a much longer slide or if it really is a "turnaround".
If we do not, as a people, find some way to start separating and distinguishing legitimate differences from just plain lunacy we'll ultimately end as another "late great" failed empire.
Posted by
Not Your Mama |
12:14 am, June 16, 2009