Salon needs flushing badly;
the smell is horrid...
but it is, as expected.
Dump! the Usurper-in-Chief!
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 ...
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.
BTW, I'm the Conservative Black Sheep in a family of Leftist Progladykes.
No, they wouldn't seem "particularly political" because that's the norm. Monmouth County is one of the red NJ counties (52.2% Romney, 46.7% BO in 2012). Many of her neighbors probably worked at Fort Monmouth until it closed and operations moved to Maryland. If you removed the strip about 10 miles wide on either side of the Turnpike from New Jersey, the state would vote like Texas.
I don't think Ms. O'Connor spent much time talking to her NJ neighbors. Most of them were probably like her dad to begin with.
I HAVE NEVER CHANGED AT ALL. I HAVE ALWAYS USED HISTORY AND REALITY TO FORM MY OPINIONS AND MY IDEOLOGY. I HAVE OUR FOUNDER’S WORDS AND THE WORDS OF GOD ALMIGHTY TO GUIDE ME. WHEN YOU LIE ABOUT HOW THIS COUNTRY HAS CHANGED... IT IS A CYCLIC TREND THAT HAS EVER INCREMENTALLY MOVED US TO THE LEFT. WE ARE NOW THE SOVIET UNION WITH MUGABE AS PRESIDENT!
WE ON THE RIGHT HAVE BEEN FIRMLY HOLDING OUR RIGHTEOUS POSITIONS AND FIGHTING THE EVIL OF THE LEFT SINCE THE BEGINNING. WE HAVE NOT CHANGED... YOU ON THE LEFT HAVE SHUNNED GOD AND OUR FOUNDING PRINCIPLES AND USE THE POWERS OF satan TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR GOALS. THAT IS THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH SO HELP ME GOD!
I haven't finished my first cup of coffee yet.
Her Dad sounds like he’s got his act together and understands America.
It also proves when you try to bring your kid’s up right and guide them in the right direction with morals, personal responsibility etc, when they hit 18 they’re on their own and sometimes make bad choices.
Jen Senko.
Another product of our public indoctrination centers.
I bet daddy is really proud.
Rush is very good, but the longer you listen to him the more you realize that most of the things he comments on are on Drudge or shared here.
I scan FR/Drudge before he comes on and wait to hear his commentary compared to the many fine observations offered on FR.
Same thing with Fox News. It really helps, especially with the panels to know the total story instead of the abbreviated versions offered by several of the participants.
she might do better marketing herself as Jen-Senko, the organic oriental herbal laxative on late night cable.
And another keyboard destroyed by the morning coffee, due to an excellent observation.
Well done Covenantor.......
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