Posted on 04/22/2008 1:49:18 PM PDT by The_Republican
One of the main themes of my new book, Right Is Wrong, is the role the media have played in allowing the lunatic fringe now in control of the Republican Party -- the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- to hijack our democracy. I document how the real problem comes not from Fox News or the likes of Limbaugh and O'Reilly, but from a mainstream media that has so internalized the Right's framing and messages they have now become a part of its DNA.
And the media seem intent on confirming this point again and again and again.
The first of the latest round of exhibits proving that the Karl Rove playbook has become the MSM's bible was offered into evidence during last week's ABC debate. The uproar that followed made it seem as if this kind of behavior was an aberration but, in fact, this has been going on for years -- only in a less concentrated form.
Next came a double-whammy in Sunday's New York Times. First up was David Barstow's epic revelation of the unseemly complicity between the Pentagon and the mainstream media in delivering the Bush administration's talking points on Iraq via "a kind of Trojan media horse" -- Pentagon-approved, prepped, and financially-enriched "military analysts" dutifully parroting the Bush party line, with nary a raised eyebrow from the TV stations and newspapers offering these highly-decorated sock puppets their prestigious platforms.
It was -- and, indeed, continues to be -- a propagandists' field day. And while the moral bankruptcy of the "military analysts" -- many of whom now admit to promoting "facts" they knew to be untrue -- is astounding, it is more than matched by the bankrupt behavior of the media mavens who enabled the Pentagon disinformation campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
This just in from Bizarro World ...
Arianna is one of those people that does make you believe that torture can have a place in American society. It’s also pretty clear she’s not evolved a second.
Arianna is one of those people that does make you believe that torture can have a place in American society. It’s also pretty clear she’s not evolved a second.
What a God-awful, brainless, dingbat goose!
Other than marrying a fudgepacker and having a cute Greek accent, what has Arianna Huffington actually accomplished in her life?
If you want to know Obama’s inner female, read Huffington.
;^)
is there anything or anyone more unpleasant than huffianna ?
Wonder what color the sky is over there? She should write about that, it would make as much sense.
Hard to take seriously anyone obsessed with Karl Rove.
Hey Arianna! You can EXHALE now.
Not one of the sharpest tools in the drawer, is she?
At least her book title is spot-on.
Freaking nut bar.
Listening to Ariana’s voice for more than 2 minutes...now THAT’S what I call torture.
Arianna is one of those people that does make you believe that torture can have a place in American society.
Have you heard her voice? She is walking torture! Just imagine playing Arianna’s voice over loudspeakers all day long - make you want to beat your head against a brick wall!
I listen when the third Gabor sister talks about a lunatic fringe.
...the people who believe in torture but don't believe in evolution -- to hijack our democracy.
The word democracy doesn't appear once in the Constituiton (but Republican does). Why is it always those on the mega, ultra, hyper, fringe, far, socialist left who insist on being so demonstrably wrong about our government?
She is also one of those people that make you turn gay.
That’s what they really did at Abu Ghraib.
She’s a turnip with... oh, never mind.
Waterboarding should be reserved for Arianna and her ilk.
Try to imagine being married to that — it could be enough to drive some (weak minded) men so insane that they turn to other men for consolation.
Whoa...either Huffington is a clinical paranoid schizophrenic or she's flacking an incredibly bad book. Could be both.
Then, click "images" to check the results.
If there's no "naked" version, the market place has spoken.
Then, click "images" to check the results.
If there's no "naked" version, the market place has spoken.
She’s just an even less attractive version of MoDo. Back to Greece, skank.
She’s accusing the Republicans of doing what the Democrats have done for decades? How unique.
I recall during the copresidency there were experts all over the news telling me that there were certain kinds of sex that were not sex at all and that is, indeed, has many contextual meanings.
Any administration is going to have people designated to roll out ideas and make presentations.
Rove, You Magnificent Bastard!
Zsa Zsa Huffington = Soros Ho
The latest news from Lisa Douglas...
Read this excerpt outloud, in a high-pitched, abrasive, hungarian (or whatever she is) accent. It's even funnier!
“the lunatic fringe”
Ariranna,true enough, the lunatic fringe is alive and well. But according to the AA recovery model, you have to be willing to admit you have a problem before you can correct the problem.
Sweetheart, you have a real problem figuring out where you reside on the Sane/Reality Based . . . Lunatic/ La La Land continuum.
Rest in peace Arianna. Oh excuse me, it’s just your brain hon. Sorry about that.
Bush’s failure to censor the press and open an Office of War Information by executive order, as FDR did in 1941, has doomed his war effort.
The non-military aspects of this war have been pathetic, and reflect one of the most incompetent administrations in our history.
Not sure what happenned to her. When Klinton impeachment was at its peak, she was 100% on Conservative side and used to on Bill Maher’s show, “Politically Incorrect” and dish out some and take bunch of abuse.
Something short circuited her brain, to go from one end to the other.
I agree. Clinton had that effect on a number of people. Linsey Graham and Keith Oberman were two that took him to task that have gone off the deep end since.
Consider the source:
A woman who believes in evolution, but not in God.
Believes in the constitution, but not the second amendment.
Is opposed to executing convicted murderers, but favors abortion on demand.
Favors equal rights for women, except Muslim women.
The list of inanities could go on forever but I have to go to work in the morning, unlike Arianna Huffington.
Consolation:
Huffington approved the publishing, the breaking of, Obama’s “bitter” comments.
She’s a big Obama supporter and didn’t think it would hurt him.
Ignorance and schadenfreude together.
Poor Arianna. Since she first learned their Filipino houseboy was shtuping her husband, she’s never been the same since.
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A cleverly baited and manipulative column by Arianna. Is her website not doing so good?
“To see what counts just take any celebrity or wannabe and do a google.com search. Type in the name, then type in the word “naked” immediately following.”
Oh God no, dont do it ... she was in the sack on Comedy Central with Al Franken. It’s been downhill ever since.
That’s what they really did at Abu Ghraib.
How do you think we got all our information from the terrorists? It wasn’t water boarding, it was....Ariana - the mother of torture tactics. ;)
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