The left and its mainstream media arm doing what they do best: manufacturing (dishonest) consent.
A representative republic that is “informed” by a progressive propaganda complex masquerading (and given intellectual cover) as a neutral, objective purveyor of fact, must either overthrow that media complex, or else resign itself to the fact that they’ll be forever shaped by it.
That’s not liberty. That’s being on the wrong end of an elaborate puppet show.
And fuck that.
I was flipping channels this morning and listened to NPR. Holly shit were they on a roll, describing how Republicans are removing funding and how that is negatively impacting commutes and traffic. It was obviously intentional what they were doing. And it is not limited to NPR, all of them do it to an extent. Heck, even Fox when it lets that crapweasel automobile pedestrian batterer Shep Smith speak.
RoboShep™ is a blight on the FauxNewz landscape. I think he would be happier at MSNBC. I understand they’re looking for new “talent.”
I had to laugh the moment I saw the crosstabs on the CBS/NYT poll. Democrats with a +10 advantage in the sample. Union households represented by multiples of the amount they actually are present in the workforce. Absolutely no mention of the geographical distribution of the 900 some folks questioned…
It’s pure, unadulterated propaganda, meant to provide what little gravitas those alleged news organizations still posess to the preferred talking points; as you say, in support of The Narrative™
And what was even more head shakingly ridiculous was when I saw the to-be-expected traffic drumming up post on it by AllahP last night, with the concomitant, “They’ve Checkmated Us!”, tone…
I’m glad that someone is calling this poll the excrement that it is.
I like how “progressive propaganda complex” alliterates.
If intellectuals tend towards whorishness, fadishness and servility, as Paul A. Rahe notes today, how much more so is that the case among the intellegentsia.
PPP is a propaganda outfit, pure and simple. They produce what the client wants. It bears little, if any, relation to reality.
And sub-morons eat it up.
I look forward to the day when the media transformation is complete, and the NYT goes from being the Paper of Record, driving the day’s news, to being the Paper of Ridicule, driving the day’s mockery.
It’s already well underway!
Rush nailed it today, perhaps best paraphrased this way: in the wake of a veritable, seven hundred seat tsunami of pushback against “progressivism” that swept through virtually every government in the nation, the media daily paints the right as losers and worse.
I.e., this is a unending war against bullshit, folks. The fourth branch of government lives and thrives.
It was like a ten word summary of ten years of pw. I love it when a plan comes together.
I think I’m in love.
South Florida Congressman Allen West branded the runaway state senators of Wisconsin a bunch of “cowards,” comparable to Army deserters.
“What kind of representative democracy have we become when elected officials run from executing their prescribed duties?” West said in a weekly newsletter to constituents and fans that begins, “Dear Patriot.”
“In the military we have General Order number one: `I shall not leave my appointed place of duty or post until properly relieved,’” said West, a retired Army lieutenant colonel. “If a leader takes off, we call it `desertion.’ What manner of person runs and hides instead of making a stand, making a decision?”
Although cutting the pay or benefits of public workers was opposed by people in all income groups, it had the most support from people earning over $100,000 a year. In that income group, 45 percent said they favored cutting pay or benefits, while 49 percent opposed it. In every other income group, a majority opposed cutting pay or benefits: Among those making between $15,000 and $30,000, for instance, 35 percent said they favored cutting pay or benefits, while 60 percent opposed it.
Imagine that: people who get free shit from the State don’t mind if the State pays their check-cutters lavishly. Whoda thunkit?
Afraid they’re next? They should be…. :evil grin: bwahahahha
Bloomberg picked up the NYT poll, and my
librarianDirector of Information Resources and Research just forwarded it to the company.My reply was, shall we say, restrained, if only because language like “You might be an innumerate retard, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are” might prove career-limiting. Still, I think my disapproval shone through.
The fourth estate is a fifth column and always has been.
This is too funny!
LBascom,
I see your funny, and I raise you irony.
http://lonelyconservative.com/2011/03/wi-teacher-pensions-invested-in-koch-industries-what-about-that-boycott/
“According to the State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the Wisconsin Retirement System owns $5.5 million in Georgia Pacific corporate bonds. (Georgia Pacific is owned by Koch Industries.) This is the retirement system in which the overwhelming majority of state and local employees participate. These are the pension benefits that public employees are trying so hard to protect.”
Bwahahahaha!
HOly crap!
http://dane101.com/current/2011/03/01/wisconsin_gop_senator_glenn_grothman_chased_trapped_by_hecklers_saved_by_dem_rep_