tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post538209005059179693..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: The Vast Conspiracy of Forgetting: E.J. Dionnedriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34555181631845823512016-09-20T21:08:50.904-05:002016-09-20T21:08:50.904-05:00If David Brooks is an enabler then E. J. Dionne is...If David Brooks is an enabler then E. J. Dionne is an enabler of the enabler. It's so annoying to listen to the two of them on NPR. Thanks for putting Dionne in your sights.<br />SamBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08130666912654402454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-23735064308293222982016-09-20T14:34:00.380-05:002016-09-20T14:34:00.380-05:00My eye caught the Friedman unit committing an act ...My eye caught the Friedman unit committing an act of journalism in that Rumsfeld video. Amazing.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06518025949949879535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-48698882186631679722016-09-20T12:33:14.527-05:002016-09-20T12:33:14.527-05:00Of course the media cannot tell the truth to the A...Of course the media cannot tell the truth to the American people. Because what is the truth? That Richard Nixon in 1968 got the white working class and rural America to reject the Great Society which promised to end poverty in America, and to substitute the War on Crime for the War on Poverty. And ever since that day the Republican party has existed solely and exclusively by pointing the finger at black and brown people and screaming "you're what's wrong with America!" If only we could get "those people" in line - by putting them in prison, outvoting or disenfranchising them somehow, then everything would be fine. And this strategy of winning elections by demonizing non-white people has been going on now for nearly 50 years. Only there's two little problems with the GOP's "Southern Strategy" now:<br /><br />1. It's one thing to point your finger at 12% of the voters in 1968, but another to point your finger at 28% of the voters in 2012 and 30% of the voters in 2016 and blame them for everything that has gone wrong with America. <br /><br />2. Because of #1, Obama won 2 national elections. And the result of that was that all the bigots in America lost their minds about the President being a "Kenyan Muslim usurper", thus preparing the way for Trump. <br /><br /><b>So now if Trump loses there is no way back to the great media lie that cannot confront this simple reality. The entire media has to pretend this hasn't been happening for 50 years, that what everybody in America can see is happening right now every day on national TV never happened at all, and that all the bigots can be conveniently shoved back under the rock Trump has lifted.</b> <br /><br />And then we can wax poetical about the "economic distress" that motivated the GOP base, not pure-blind race hatred of course, conveniently ignoring that the "economic distress" was a RESULT of the deregulation of capital pimped by that same GOP party, with gleeful support from the MSM. <br /><br />So, of course, it was never the GOP base that was racist, but the "Trumpites" who have to be satisfied with going back to dog-whistles . <br /><br />But, there's this little problem of "a remainder of an unbalanced equation that if unchecked an escalating probability of disaster." Too many people, particularly black and brown people have seen all the bigots come out and dance in the sun and scream in rage "make me a taco bitch!" at small Latina women outside Trump rallies. They're not going to forget that. The GOP is essentially dead to virtually every non-white person in America. And that isn't going to change until and unless the GOP has a come to Jesus moment where they confront the ugly truth about their racist history and come clean.<br /><br />But, what if the media told THAT truth? That the only way forward is to acknowledge that we've got more than 40 million un-reconstructed bigots right out of Lester Maddox circa 1963, who still think Barack Obama is a Kenyan Muslim, and they vote in Republican primaries, and what do we do about <i>that</i> little problem? <br /><br />How do we deal with generations of endemic racism and religious bigotry in a country that is becoming a minority majority country by sometime around 2050? <br /><br />But, if they admitted that, a lot of VIP people would lose their very lucrative media jobs. Probably starting with Phil Griffin and Jeff Zucker. And we can't have that. <br /><br />But the problem isn't going away until it's dealt with so the GOP is going to have to lose several more elections before they wake up. Cugelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14415214853725925805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-73684473084087744682016-09-20T09:49:57.061-05:002016-09-20T09:49:57.061-05:00Watergate was, um, 1973? And although the break-i...Watergate was, um, 1973? And although the break-in was reported prior to the 1972 election, it was pretty much ignored by all until a bipartisan Congressional hearing got going after Nixon was elected. The press did cover the hearing, due to the dramatic character of many of the principals--Sam Ervin comes to mind, and also his Republican counterparts, Weiker and Howard Baker. Back in those distant days, Republicans, or some of them, did not view partisanship as their most important duty. Today Eric Erickson says it's ok to vote for Trump, just don't admit it. Fiddlin Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083633111240927563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57978686156095190682016-09-19T22:05:48.214-05:002016-09-19T22:05:48.214-05:00"Rarely has a concerted political effort been..."Rarely has a concerted political effort been more successful. Ever since, reporters, editors and producers have incessantly looked over their right shoulders, fearing they’d be assailed as secret carriers of the liberal virus."<br /><br /> Yeah, it was so successful that a pair of reporters took down a sitting president right after Agnew resigned in disgrace.<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-26740538133318867932016-09-19T20:22:22.002-05:002016-09-19T20:22:22.002-05:00Dionne's a Canadian. He is fairly feeble on th...Dionne's a Canadian. He is fairly feeble on the NewsHour with Bobo and in the WaPo but the problem is that there really is no serious media outlet for either liberals or progressives on the TeeVee and print media anymore.Jimbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13891331049535299222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-38299890328382760892016-09-19T19:39:10.975-05:002016-09-19T19:39:10.975-05:00Does anyone not realize that the whole Trump Campa...Does anyone not realize that the whole Trump Campaign is a recasting of Arrested Development (without the boring sane character of Michael)?<br /><br />Gob? DONALD JR.<br />Buster? ERIC <br />Lindsay? IVANKA<br />George Bluth Sr.? TRUMP<br /><br />Tobias? JARED KUSHNER<br />Barry Zuckerkorn? STEVE BANNON<br />bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-87560119990279225212016-09-19T18:33:03.728-05:002016-09-19T18:33:03.728-05:00you're laying a lot of shit on E.J.'s lap ...you're laying a lot of shit on E.J.'s lap that doesn't belong to him and you gotta reward progress where you see it. all that crap about bobo wasn't interestingRicardo Cabezahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02511225117409039708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-6825099712391183462016-09-19T17:59:02.248-05:002016-09-19T17:59:02.248-05:00And now, it looks as if they're just a few mor...And now, it looks as if they're just a few more lies away from electing Greg Stillson to the White House. I'd relish the thought of watching all these idiots getting what they so richly deserve if I didn't already know that we're all standing on the same deck of the same ship with the same iceberg just within striking distance. I never imagined that the media would be complicit in the greatest political con game ever devised, but I guess there really is no point low enough that won't go just a little bit lower for an extra couple of dollars.Sandmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00234681315035379874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-61570126011043356482016-09-19T17:49:47.144-05:002016-09-19T17:49:47.144-05:00Pure fucking genius. All of it.<b>Pure fucking genius. All of it.</b>moemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07714585748102791365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14616506402391475492016-09-19T14:27:21.364-05:002016-09-19T14:27:21.364-05:00Excellent. Just excellent.
I have somewhere on my ...Excellent. Just excellent.<br />I have somewhere on my bookshelves a copy of the Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, a large coffee-table type tome.<br />It is essentially a catalog of dead religions and their beliefs.<br />In reading it, one is struck again and again by the idea, "How did anyone ever seriously believe THAT"?<br />The obvious fate which awaits the scrivenings of our revered pundits and "public intellectuals".<br />The sooner the better.bowtiejackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03269786110593961195noreply@blogger.com