From Lawyers, Guns & Money:
That Trump illegally held up military aid to Ukraine in order to bribe and extort that nation into announcing that it was launching an investigation into the Bidens is not a matter of factual dispute at this point. It’s been proven beyond a reasonable doubt by overwhelming waves of evidence coming from multiple sources.If you continue to be confused about why we Liberals have zero faith in the mainstream media to report honestly on anything, try this thought experiment: take virtually any mainstream political pieties about the Sanctity of Bipartisanship or the Failure of Democrats to Whatever, swap out phrases like "Trump" or "Republican" or "Trump Supporter" (from Crooks & Liars) --
Trump’s ongoing denials would be treated, by a healthy news media, as what they are, which are obvious lies.
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Accurate reporting in this context would note that Trump has in fact done what he’s been accused of doing, that the Republican party and 40% of the country don’t care, and that literally no amount of further superfluous evidence on the non-existent “question” of whether or not he’s done it has any relevance to the latter fact.
But again, straightforward reporting on that latter fact is also impossible, because that would require reporting that, in various fundamental ways, the American political system doesn’t work any more...
JAKE TAPPER: And ultimately, if only Democrats vote to impeach the president... president Trump, and Republicans, and maybe a couple of Democrats do not vote to impeach him, vote against that, doesn't that suggest that this is a partisan impeachment? Wouldn't that hurt the credibility of the impeachment that only Democrats vote to support it?-- and swap in some variation of the term "brain-eating zombie" and then re-read it.
JAKE TAPPER: And ultimately, if only Democrats vote to impeach the King of the Brain-Eating Zombies ... and Congressional brain-eating zombies, and maybe a couple of Democrats do not vote to impeach him, vote against that, doesn't that suggest that this is a partisan impeachment? Wouldn't that hurt the credibility of the impeachment of the the King of the Brain-Eating Zombies that no brain-eating zombies vote to support it?This is what the mainstream media has looked like to us dirty hippies for decades. And for decades we have warned as loudly and clearly as we were able that if mainstream political media went on this way, it would kill this country.
Because for fascist propaganda to really work in America -- to eat into the bones of our democracy -- it is not enough to just have a Conservative media that hammers away with bile and lies around the clock.
That final push off the cliff also requires a compliant and complacent mainstream media which is so hopelessly addicted to toxic Both Siderism that it no longer recognizes the existence of objective reality beyond the raw, political utility of whatever words are coming out of someone's mouth on any given day. A "legitimate" media so debased that, for sordid wages, is willing to look at the monster growing right in front of them, shrug, and tell the American public, "What is truth?"
Behold, a Tip Jar!
4 comments:
Side issue,
Just want to say.
Happy Turkey..
And shake those tail feathers...........
This is one of the best things you've ever written.
Sometimes I feel bad and sometimes I don't when I come here, there's no rationale that's evident to me at least. This article took me both ways both your words and those from Lawyers, Guns & Money. The way you worked them together and into a whole new thing that also makes me feel both ways, but this time with more optimism. Well done. p.s. I agree w/Fran
Still out here in west Denver…
At some point, the vulnerable minds that get absorbed by the media nonsense have got to be held responsible for their swallowing of the bile.
RE-barfing and re- chowing down on that barf.
There is a mental illness with much of this ideological disease.. For instance the notion held, " We need to return to how things were when we were so great. When I was a child ".
How this child had no sense of the troubles and ire of that time because it was the adults of that time aware, not the children ".
They love the law of the constitution when a Democrat is in office and have no idea what the constitution says or if it even exists with a GOP president.
I have asked this question for a very long time,
Approx 2 to 3 percent of pre civil war southerners had plantations with abundance of slaves they were soley dependent. The rest of the southerners did not.
"How did they convince all those who were not wealthy plantation owners to fight for the continuing of slaves for those plantation owners"? How?
What has the wealthy oligarchic royalty of this country done since FDR's New Deal and setting a trajectory for this country that would reduce the punishing inherent poverty and caste system of privilege.
The wealthy who bought the right wing has spent wildly to get a union worker with health care and decent wages , benefits and work enviroment to stand up and tell his fellow union brothers that this is all bad and socialism. But this guy will not go out and get one of those great non union jobs.
They have indoctrinated the fundimental religios to condemn those that are not admitted to their Klan. Just another wedge to divide. They do not like the notion the constitution promises in the words, "We the People". They chopped off an arm of , ""We the People" with Citizens United.
They are not done yet.
Tax cuts for the wealthy is perfectly pictured for what it is. When 1 week after the tax cuts for the wealthy to create good paying jobs and benevolent spending was , a wealthy tax cut recipient ( Sheldon Adelson) gave $500 million donation to Speaker Paul Ryan for the GOP reelection PAC.
About that FOX,
"there is no Thanksgiving celebration in Moscow". From Russia with love.
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