Posted on 10/12/2013 2:21:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Jen Senko is a filmmaker who watched in horror as her father slowly came to believe the extreme right-wing lies of Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media mavens. Now she’s making a documentary about it calledThe Brainwashing of My Dad.
Senko’s first documentary, Road Map Warrior Women, won recognition with several festival awards. Her most recent film,The Vanishing City,co-directed with Fiore DeRosa,exposes the economic policies that have made New York a city for the rich. The Vanishing City won Best Feature Documentary in the Williamsburg International Film Festival,Best Short Documentary in the Harlem International Film Festival,and Honorable Mention in the Los Angeles International Film Festival.
Rory O’Connor,a filmmaker and author whose works include the book,Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio,interviewed Senko about her film.
Rory O’Connor:Tell us about the origins of your film. When did you first notice your dad’s ‘brainwashing,”and when did you determine to make a documentary film about it?
Jen Senko:I remember the first time I really noticed it. My dad picked me up from the bus station when I was visiting from New York. On the way home we passed a Hooters and he started complaining about the “attack” against Hooters by the establishment,and saying how silly it was and how it interfered with our freedom.
He was frighteningly angry—excited,argumentative, belligerent… I didn’t understand why. I tried to change the subject and said something about all the SUVs I was seeing on the road—this was in the ’80s, when they first came out. My dad had always been a “non-waster” and tightwad—anytime he got gas he marked it down in a little book to keep track of how much he was spending—so I thought he would agree. I was flabbergasted when he got even angrier and threatened to pull over and let me hitchhike the rest of the way home.......
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
Oh for crying out loud. I will personally make donations to her dad to make a documentary about the idiots he probably paid to fill her head with this commie bullcrap.
Invasion of the ipod people: find out your children aren’t even human anymore.
Anyone that deviates from the party line must be sent to reeducation camp. It is only a matter of time before FOX is put in its place.
Anbother adolescent flick slated to be a hit with inbred, pseudo-intellectual types and college profs of Leftist leanings, then die on the vine after endless ridicule from serious people all across the country.
Third Reich Child.
In a word ... bullshit.
I miss the Salon death watch pings. Let me go and find their stock price.
I guess she just loves all the devastation that her beloved liberalism has caused, huh?
The brainwashing is deep with this one.
All your children are belong to us.
Sincerely
The Government
If your brain is full of crap ... it needs to be washed.
Why is 'brainwashing' such a negative?
My pastor practices brainwashing in every sermon.
Why? Fox is steadily trying to join them.
Can’t click on a salon link but I dont see anything in excerpt about the merit of the ideas just that she can’t support anything from the evil right.
Whaaaaattt?
Is it a full moon tonight?
This pretty much sums it up for her. She's a privileged liberal elite working for a hip liberal WebRag and only her thoughts are normal. Her facts are hers concocted for the benefit of her point. She states that 72% of Limbaugh's audience is over 65 when it is only 11%, etc. She's full of more crap than a Christmas turkey, IMO. [https://www.quantcast.com/rushlimbaugh.com?country=US] Loves NYC but did a film how it is vanishing because it is only for the rich people now, neglecting to attribute a lot of that to Bloomberg who wants that Tax Money. In short, if you google her image, you'll see a very lovely but mentally damaged woman who won't date a Republican in her on-line dating. My son loves these types of women - good looking, liberal, a little nuts....he gets plenty of action there in NYC with this type; he just doesn't tell them he is a Conservative. It is why he won't come home from that evil place.
Jen, you ignorant slut.
Sounds like her dad had other problems, and just fixated on political issues. If she thinks that only the right behaves that way, she should pretend to some new liberal acquaintance that she’s a dyed in the wool Republican, and just watch the fur fly! I’ve had libs get almost apoplectic on me. Getting all wound up and shouting about the issues is NOT just a “Republican” trait.
“Why? Fox is steadily trying to join them.”
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Well, you do have a point. I now watch less and less, as every time I go there, I see that fatso Beckel, Juan the Moron, Alan Colme, or some other filthy leftist. FOX and Aljazera are the only news on my G-sat.
FOX may be the final jewel in the Marxist crown.
I really get ALL of my news and views on Free Republic.
He commuted long distances to his job. He paid for her education and probably pays to support her now in her career making left wing film documentaries that few people will ever see. She is probably not a tightwad and spends her father's money freely without a care.
She now considers herself superior to her father. She is making a documentary ridiculing her father and his beliefs. The film will make him seem like a total idiot and be edited to depict her father in the worst possible way.
The only good thing for her poor father is that almost no one will see this film.
Wow...talk about brain washed...she is a totally useful idiot...Noam Chomsky?
Thanks for sharing this article. I’m halfway through and laughing out loud at how deluded this woman is and really enjoying the laugh!
Go over there and read the comments. They call us brainwashed???!!!
I just spewed coffee all over my laptop pc
"The Brainwashing of My Dad - documentary" The truth behind the right-wing media machine that changed a father - and the nation "When the filmmaker's parents moved to a place where her father had a long solo commute to work and started listening to Talk Radio to alleviate the boredom, her family saw him change from a non-political Democrat to a radicalized, angry Right-Wing Republican. What happened to Dad?
As filmmaker, Jen Senko, tries to understand the transformation of her father from a mild mannered life-long Democrat to an angry, Right-Wing fanatic, she uncovers the forces behind the media that changed him completely: a plan by Roger Ailes under Nixon for a media by the GOP, The Powell Memo and the dismantling of the Fairness Doctrine, all of which would ultimately misinform millions, divide families and even the country itself.
Remember when Hillary Clinton got pilloried for blaming a “vast right-wing conspiracy” for the relentless attacks against her husband? Maybe you weren’t around then. Well, she said it. Some thought she’d gone off the deep-end. We all know that “conspiracies” mean that you think that we really didn’t land a man on the moon, or that Bigfoot stalks the North - not that there’s anything wrong with that!
But really, was Hillary right? If you think about it, the country has changed dramatically within the last 30 years. During the 1960s and 70s America was moving in a much more socially minded direction. One could say, “liberal”. Then, slowly the country began to shift. What was once considered “right” is now “center-left”. It can’t be denied that corporations play an ever-increasing role in every facet of our government and the media has been instrumental in this development. We are now so divided that the Left will argue that President Obama is to the right of Reagan while the Right labels him a “Socialist”. Hmm. How did that happen?
This documentary will look at the changes that happened to a dad (and many others) when he changed his media habits. Then we look at how the media itself changed and the effect it had on our country. The media has a powerful influence on the American mind – so much so that one could argue: if you control the Media, you control the American Mind."
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"When the filmmaker's parents moved to a place where her father had a long solo commute to work and started listening to Talk Radio to alleviate the boredom, her family saw him change from a non-political Democrat to a radicalized, angry Right-Wing Republican. What happened to Dad?"
The sad part about this is he stopped listening to Rush (if this is the same woman I’ve heard with a similar story) because his daughter’s happiness was more important to him. I believe he is dead now. If anyone has more info, please add it.
Link to the 5 minute trailer for her documentary. She even has Noam Chomsky on there. Trailer ends with her wondering if her dad can be “reprogrammed” and says she’s about to find out....
Lies???..... name one girl!
I listen to Rush because he gives a differing point of view.
He’ll talk about things like the left-leaning bias in selection of respondents to national surveys.
I could spend hours delving into those details, myself, but why duplicate Rush’s work? He’s skilled at ferreting out facts the MSM doesn’t mention.
I do admit I get mad, when I learn the MSM gives only half of many stories.
But I left the Liberal party on my own, in my pre-Rush days, when I saw Democrats NEEDED the collusion of “journalists” in order to stay in power.
Yep, same conclusion here. The article did appear first on the Alternet, the waste stream of the internet so it's not surprising
*sob!*
That is spot-on!
Was patiently reading all the comments to see if anyone issued this challenge.
That's my main bone-of-contention -- this is the #1 accusation/smear that they make, and there's NEVER a single documented example.
Differences of OPINION are not 'lies'. Lies are deliberate misrepresentation of fact, or the intentional omission of elements of a story that give a listener or reader a false impression.
I join you in demanding of everyone who throws out the accusation: Name one and cite your supporting evidence!
When you do that, the Left's knee-jerk reaction is to labeled you a "DENIER!" and call for you to be silenced for the good of all.
bump
That’s sad. So, we can be turned in by our neighbors......and now *turned in* by our own flesh ‘n blood.
Lovely. Last wills and testaments can be changed.
Hitch hike home? Bet it never happened.
Boy, you’re not kidding, there are some real loons in that comment section..
I was prepared to dismiss this as just another self-inflated puff piece until I came across this, “Best Short Documentary in the Harlem International Film Festival”.
Well, that straightened me right up. This person might have some serious gravitas mojo going on. Manned up and plowed through it. Big mistake. Just another ungrateful whelp almost as serious as an egg white omelet with tofu faux bacon on the side.
Having shortened her name to Jen Senko, she might do better marketing herself as Jen-Senko, the organic oriental herbal laxative on late night cable.
I’ve not been to the link, but the excerpt posted here reads like an old Mo Rocca routine.
In other words she can’t be serious.
No, say it isn't so ! LOL. Her father sounds like a decent guy.
It will be required viewing in "institutions of higher learning" right up there with Al Gore's and Michael Moore's Left-wing droppings.
Another bit:
“ROC:What are the forces that you see having changed your father and his behavior?
JS: Interesting that you ask that question because it is such a central component in my film. I’ve been told that using the word “conspiracy” is not a good idea. But there were specific plans drawn up, some in secret, by members of the Republican elite to create a major change from the political direction the country was moving in (namely more progressive) to one with much more emphasis on business through, in large part, the media. Those forces turned into changes in the media and the language and framing of values and messages like “liberal media” being repeated over and over. They created scapegoats to blame, and produced a hostility within him towards other people that he felt should be making it on their own—no excuses! He became convinced that if they were suffering it was their own fault.
ROC:How can media habits actually have such a pronounced effect on people, to change them so radically?
JS: By media habits, I’ll answer as if you mean listening or watching habits. In the film, Steve Rendell discusses the personal nature of talk radio. There is an intimate connection between the radio and the listener. As for the effect it has on people, I think any message told repeatedly has an effect on people. It works in advertising and it works in forming one’s political views.”
He’s still “alive”....
“ROC:How has your father reacted to your proposed film? Is he supportive? Does he think you are part of the “liberal media”?
JS: My dad knows that I’m making a film about him. I’m always filming something. He’s proud of me. We get along great now. I love him to pieces. And I won’t give the film away but he is not the same person he was three years ago. My father has always loved me, but I think had this film been made during the time of his political obsession that love would have been greatly tested.
ROC:Are you hearing from other people in the same familial boat? How many?
JS: More than I could have ever imagined. The right-wing media noise machine has had a profound affect on lives of individuals, whether they listen to it or not....”
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, children were encouraged to betray their parents for “counter- revolutionary” thoughts and actions. What this woman is doing is evil: Marxist ideology over family.
First two question set off my ‘fake but accurate” radar.
Hooters?
Dating site?
Really?
jen and rory... keep pushing and you will start a civil war that you will NEVER survive... just keep pushing and destroying with your evil deeds and massive lies.
faux news is a leftist news organization and when rupert dies... his kids will take it hard left past mslsd.
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