The average reprogrammable Republican meatbag has no memory of any of this.
Nor any memory of their eight years idolizing Bush.
Nor any memory of the Obama Administration outside of stray fragment of the dozens long-debunked conspiracies that sustained and united them during the intolerable reign of the Kenyan Usurper.
And once Trump disintegrates like a vampire on a tanning bed, they will have no memory whatsoever of these dark times or their deep and giddy complicity in them.
Republican hypocrisy and lying doesn't trigger me as much it did 20-30 years ago, probably because long ago I stopped trying to game out their political behavior as if they were sentient creatures possessing a conscience or capable of moral decision making. And once I removed that erroneous variable out of the equation and instead factor in this simple question -- "How would a mob of reprogrammable Conservative meatbags being operated by Fox News and Hate Radio react to [insert any issue here] ?" -- their actions and attitudes became depressingly easy to predict.
We remember everything they work so desperately to forget, and this is the source of the unbridgeable divide between us.
This is why they and their Both Siderist collaborators in the media will always despise and fear us.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
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Atrios links back to an interesting column from "back-in-the-day". As Atrios notes, the byline by itself is worth a read:
https://nypost.com/2000/06/08/clintons-talk-pals-do-his-dirty-work/
Of all the many things I should find upsetting these days, "listening" to accusations of Republican hypocrisy is my current trigger. I maintain that to be hypocratic you have to, at least, have some modicum of morality. And the win at all costs, by any means necessary* strategy on The Right is completely amoral.
In the clip you embedded, David Brock calls it out. When questioned on whether the folks on the Arkansas Project knew that what they were peddling wasn't true, he responds yes, but "they just didn't care".
*Once again, The Right misinterpreting (and fearing) an activist and learning the wrong thing.
If only doctors (the AMA) would have identified this birth defect in child births. A cure, an arresting medication, some sort of therapy could have been in the research labs and now made available to correct.
maybe Teachers should hold some responsibility for not identifying early in Kindergarten?
Yet here we are with this serious late term illness with all its ill effects on society.
Science, where arth Thou?
Dear dg,
This item in my eye proves your contention holds wide support and strong agreement for Memory (of witnessed events) being the ultimate (truth will out) Power, which Supercedes all misdirection aims of fake news to revisionated history and fraud-tenured TV milquetoasts to 'bipartisan equanimity the way it used to be back in my day, or days of lore.'
Whatever. Right on, dg. Keep kicking the names and reciting the faults of post-9/11 TV because writing is going to remove them, revitalize TV, and, as you fairly dare dream, keeping on is going to bring you work on Bigly TV cashing Bigly TV swag.
Russia TV is a large fan and pro-level player of the Memory Superpower game.
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Back in 2003, former New York Times journalist Judith Miller wrote a series of articles prior to the Iraq invasion backing Pentagon claims that Saddam Hussein was pursuing weapons of mass destruction.
While those claims later turned out to be a big fabrication, Miller’s career hasn’t suffered and she continues to promote her hawkish views as a contributor for Fox. She’s also gone on to become a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in 2016.
Miller’s colleague at Fox, Sean Hannity, has also escaped reprimand over his inaccurate reporting that advocated the 2003 invasion and is now backing regime change in Iran.
In 2002, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol claimed: “No one questions, furthermore, the basic facts” about Iraq’s non-existent weapons program. Still heading the paper, he’s continued to back regime change across the Arab world from Libya to Syria on MSM channels like Fox and NBC.
Dissenting voices, meanwhile, have been suppressed by the networks. After losing his NBC show a month before the invasion, a leaked memo from the network deemed veteran journalist Phil Donahue as a “difficult public face” for the network in a time of war, since he tended to call in people with anti-war opinions to speak.
The extent to which pro-war voices continue to dominate US MSM post-invasion, has led investigative journalist Max Blumenthal to call them “national security state TV.”
“No opposing voice is permitted when it comes to US foreign policy,” Blumenthal told RT. “It’s the agenda of the national security state.”
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https://www.rt.com/usa/439241-iraq-war-journalists-wmds/
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