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 ...
Either you don’t attend church or all you ever hear is how much God loves you.
Of course a great deal of the outrage by libs over conservative media is the simple fact that they don’t control 100% of the narrative. The last thing liberals want is an honest debate about anything. Proof of that is whenever conservatives try to give speeches on college campi, they are usually either banned from speaking or physically and verbally assaulted by demented leftists while giving their speeches. The capacity for hypocrisy by lib/leftists is infinite.
Nobody, not even Rush, has a lock on the truth. Anybody can be wrong on a variety of issues. But the problem with libs is not that conservatives might be wrong on a particular issue, it's the mere fact of conservatives disagreeing with leftist orthodoxy that throws them into a babbling tizzy.
Her dad was right.
That's like a medical student complaining about seeing so many sick people. Sometimes you have to bring in a Salon article for an autopsy to study it.
He should have followed through with his threat. Whiney little spoiled brat, needs some cheese to go with that whine.
Still laughing. Great poster.
Fox News only offers mild criticism of big leftist government.
If this b**ch really knew how much seething contempt there was out in the heartland for big government and this one in particular, she would go apoplectic.
Leftism is so corrupt and bankrupt of the truth that it can broker no dissent.
I would have copied his long post, but I don't know if it's allowed.
I would have copied his long post, but I don't know if it's allowed.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Fox News and talk radio brainwashed my dad, Cincinatus’ Wife wrote:
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....”
It’s suitable her lost generation viewpoint film is promoted through Salon; “Where the efete meet to bleat”. What she and her ilk share with muslem die hards is that sence of rectitude. Excepting one believes they were given it through a command by a deity and the other doesn’t believe in any such thing because it interferes with the collective.It doesn’t occur to either they’re nothing but a bunch of thugs imposing their will on others.
The daughter is one of the Zero King’s favorite useful idiots.
This woman is so hopeless as to defy rational discussion. It would take years to de-program her.
In the voice of Frasier’s Dad: Aw Geez.
Seriously, people think that Rush’s dulcet tones drugged all of us into believing LIES???
This lady is driving the wrong way on the freeway, wondering why everyone else is going the wrong way.
Many of us believed the bullcrap this lady believes; I did because it was in the media and I didn’t think enough about what they all were saying or writing. I fell for it all. Then Rush comes along and I listen, and instead of continuing to drink the nonsensical KoolAid and wanting the peace and love and skittle-pooping unicorns, I understood more about human nature, freedom, the corruption of politics. It started to make far more sense, and I started to
See the lies and impossible goals of the mainstream left.
We should list here some of Rush’s main points. Anyone on the left should please prove they are lies.
I’ll start.
The left will not ever dare to debate the right in the theater of ideas, because they will always lose.
They need voters to believe lies, while we a desperate for voters to know the truth.
The left goes after the public’s emotions, often seeking pity for downtrodden victims of one sort or another, trying to make life “fair.” The right seeks to inform and engage the more dispassionate brain and logic.
What are some of the others?
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