David Corn talking about the Wingnuts planning to take over the whole joint.
It's a bit less scary when we learn more about it.
But something that stays a little scary for me is that "the messaging" effort (ie: Corn's point about the apparent collusion between GOP and "The Press") is pretty solid simply because we've grown accustomed to the false assertion of a "librul bias in the media". How long have 'Conservatives' have been bitchin' about that one? The frame's been in place for a long time, so we're ready to accept this development as just another example of Both Sides Do It.
So here's the pitch: "the media's been lying to us all along - we all know that. We're breaking away from 'the establishment' and we're gonna tell the real truth about what the government doesn't want you to know...blah blah blah."
Another weird development is that DumFux News is starting to become identified (by some) as not being Pure Right enough.
The glimmer of hope is that these new revolutionaries can be recognized as being different from the old ones only in the extreme levels of their hunger for power. And the exceedingly dangerous deliciousness is that Ginny Thomas and Ted Cruz and Alan West make up the monster of the Republican id. Created for a political purpose, the monster now turns to destroy its creators.
Here's to keeping the collateral damage to a minimum.
One more random connect-the-dots wondering: how does Jeff Bezos buying WaPo figure into any of this?
hat tip = Little Green Footballs
It's a bit less scary when we learn more about it.
But something that stays a little scary for me is that "the messaging" effort (ie: Corn's point about the apparent collusion between GOP and "The Press") is pretty solid simply because we've grown accustomed to the false assertion of a "librul bias in the media". How long have 'Conservatives' have been bitchin' about that one? The frame's been in place for a long time, so we're ready to accept this development as just another example of Both Sides Do It.
So here's the pitch: "the media's been lying to us all along - we all know that. We're breaking away from 'the establishment' and we're gonna tell the real truth about what the government doesn't want you to know...blah blah blah."
Another weird development is that DumFux News is starting to become identified (by some) as not being Pure Right enough.
The glimmer of hope is that these new revolutionaries can be recognized as being different from the old ones only in the extreme levels of their hunger for power. And the exceedingly dangerous deliciousness is that Ginny Thomas and Ted Cruz and Alan West make up the monster of the Republican id. Created for a political purpose, the monster now turns to destroy its creators.
Here's to keeping the collateral damage to a minimum.
One more random connect-the-dots wondering: how does Jeff Bezos buying WaPo figure into any of this?
hat tip = Little Green Footballs
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