From First Draft:
Making You Inferior With Your Explicit Consent
An attendee at the Republican National Convention in Tampa on Tuesday allegedly threw nuts at a black camerawoman working for CNN and said “This is how we feed animals” before being removed from the convention, a network official confirmed to TPM.It's not just about the racism, though I don't think they'd have used the word "animal" to refer to a white crew. It's about a media culture that for 30 years now has heard from the right wing in in this country that it should be ashamed of itself and has loudly and resoundingly agreed.It's what you get when you take somebody who says the New York Times building should be blown up, and put her on the cover of a magazine because she's influential and controversial and maybe hey, she's just kidding around!It's what you get when you hire people as your commentators and consultants who think urinating on corpses is hilarious, and call Supreme Court justices "goat-fucking child molester"s.It's what you get when you pay sex tourists with drug problems insane amounts of money to spend hours on the radio calling the president of the United States everything right up to the very edge of nigger, and then quote him as if he's a person whose opinion matters.It's what you get when you invite people on the air who hate you. Who hate what you do. Who hate what you stand for. Who hate everything you are. Who say, out loud, that the world would be better off without you. Who think you're a detriment to society. Who "joke" about killing you.
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This shitaree of horrors didn't just happen out of the blue or via some act of God. The reason Erick Erickson is drawing a CNN paycheck is because someone -- some individual person -- approved that decision.
The reason batshit shrikes like Ann Coulter are finding new, second homes at the Sunday Morning Mouse Circus is because individuals book people like her on those shows, apparently with the understanding that none of her embarrassingly bloodthirsty, fascist oinkings will ever be mentioned withing eye-shot of a camera.
I lost interest in the fact of these people's existence a long time ago, but I have a deep and abiding interest in the people behind the scenes -- the bookers, producers and corporation executives -- who work tirelessly to mainstream their rightwing crazy.
It is terribly unfair that those people are not getting the attention they deserve for their diligent service to the wingnut cause.
We need to know their names.
We need to know their faces.
We need to know their phone numbers and their email addresses.
We need to know how to reach to them directly and let them know what we think of the work they do.
4 comments:
I've never understood people who were afraid of demons.
And I'm getting more confused all the time.
Or perhaps awestruck at the much-admired venality.
It has been interesting to watch the blow back and commentary this week from just a few instances of reporters actually calling the monsters...monsters. (Soledad Obrian and Chris Mathews). Much of the commentary I saw revolved around speculation on what kind of punishment they would have to endure for their grievous incivility to people who are now lying on every available outlet and in stereophonic harmony down in Tampa this very day.
Rush openly calls for killing poor people by enticing them with bags of money..and it is barely a blip on the radar. They have so coarsened the dialogue, and gone unpunished for it, in fact have been richly rewarded for it, that they now have to try and out slime themselves to draw any attention at all.
...but I am not sure the reporters themselves are that innocent in all of this. When I see one of them get fired for actually slapping down these monsters, then I will sympathize a little more. The problem is, even if CNN fired Erick son of Erick and MSNBC threw Morning Joe off the gravy train...they would just end up at Fox. There is no bottom there. There will be now "at long last have you no decency moment" to rid us of this new crop of monsters. There are just to fucking many of them.
The big non-secret is that the decisions about these things are made nowadays by one or two billionaires sitting in a dimly lit room atop some tall building. Sounds like a bad novel, but more and more its true. The only thing left is to figure out how much you want to hold the hierarchy responsible for selling their souls and their children's futures in order to keep a health plan.
Ive been annoyed lately how every company wants to know "how're we doin?"
; from the checkout line at the market where you can get a coupon if you do a short survey online, to every retail site that has a popup asking about their interface and if you would suggest this to your friends.
Im annoyed that the questions dont begin to touch on the real questions...its not about your experience in the moment but what they are doing in the big picture to not only hurt me and my kid, but to destroy the America that I thought I knew....I wish I could write my own opinion survey.
The ceo of Urban Outfitters is a big Mittens supporter ,supposedly, and that's why the T shirts that seem funny to college students but send a message to these new, delicate voters. They lost my business with that...but they keep asking how I like the interface and the new store in Westport or the Boston store....Its so much bigger than all this crap-o-rama with plastic toys and funny t-shirts.
I am literally on the eve of releasing my spawn into the Berklee College of Music mainstream, and I feel like...I just don't know what we've made of all this; its his problem now and I'm going as off the grid as possible for now, having served my purpose...time to be gentlewoman farmer and disappear into whatever Ive scratched together by hook and crook. I feel so sorry for these kids with all the info, the "how're we doin?" the confusion of the market which offers not much of anything.......(and hes majoring in performance;-)
But I hear that humans and this planet adapt...
or maybe not;-)
You need to only know one name:
Murdoch.
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