"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mohatmas. K. Gandhi
Today's act of rebellion: While having my car's oil changed, I flipped the dealership's tv station OFF Fox News.
Gotta fight that propaganda wherever you can.
Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label propaganda. Show all posts
August 30, 2011
June 12, 2011
"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim"
Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it BECAUSE it is right. -Dr. Martin Luther King
Paul Krugman asks a very important question.
Why did I have to be the one pointing out this falsehood? Doesn’t the White House have any kind of response team? Or are they so eager to be bipartisan that they don’t want to point out that Ryan is talking nonsense?
He's referring to the nonsensical Republican claim that discretionary non-defense spending is up 80 percent under Obama.
It's not true, folks. No matter how many times Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan bloviate over this, they are lying through their teeth, pure and simple.
Why hasn't the President come out and said so? Stuff like this is prime fodder for the "bully pulpit," after all.
For that matter, especially now that the Democrats are gearing up for the election, why don't they have a team of bloggers and tweeters working round the clock to counter Republican falsehoods? (They would need three full-time people monitoring Fake Noise alone--if they could stand it, that is. I couldn't. My brain would explode.) The Repugs thrive on spreading falsehoods; they know from experience that with the Fake Noise propaganda machine on their side, they have a far greater chance of making the American people believe said falsehoods.
So why isn't the administration doing something to combat this? Taking the bipartisan high road ain't gonna do it, folks. I suppose Obama thinks Boehner is a worthy golf partner, but really, he ought to know that Cantor, Ryan and Grover Norquist are full-blown slimeballs. They wouldn't turn on a hose if the President was on fire. Whether they admit it to themselves or not (and at least the Tea Partiers will say so), most Republicans are out to Beat the Black Socialist Boogeyman, full stop.
Hell, I could refute Repug falsehoods, and I'm certainly not a journalist. Most Republican lies are easy to knock off; one or two Google searches, along with the requisite reading, and you're done. I both blog and Tweet, so I know how to express myself. (I also don't have a smartphone, so I couldn't tweet breast shots even if I wanted to.) The point is getting the correct information out there, and not letting the propaganda take over. As much as I like Paul Krugman and Rachel Maddow, I don't think they should have to do all the heavy lifting.
Sometimes Barack Obama reminds me of a regal, stately Afghan hound, trotting along with his nose in the air, holding himself above the fray. Unfortunately, he's surrounded by pit bulls, he's about to get that stately nose torn off, and he needs to start fighting back.
Paul Krugman asks a very important question.
Why did I have to be the one pointing out this falsehood? Doesn’t the White House have any kind of response team? Or are they so eager to be bipartisan that they don’t want to point out that Ryan is talking nonsense?
He's referring to the nonsensical Republican claim that discretionary non-defense spending is up 80 percent under Obama.
It's not true, folks. No matter how many times Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan bloviate over this, they are lying through their teeth, pure and simple.
Why hasn't the President come out and said so? Stuff like this is prime fodder for the "bully pulpit," after all.
For that matter, especially now that the Democrats are gearing up for the election, why don't they have a team of bloggers and tweeters working round the clock to counter Republican falsehoods? (They would need three full-time people monitoring Fake Noise alone--if they could stand it, that is. I couldn't. My brain would explode.) The Repugs thrive on spreading falsehoods; they know from experience that with the Fake Noise propaganda machine on their side, they have a far greater chance of making the American people believe said falsehoods.
So why isn't the administration doing something to combat this? Taking the bipartisan high road ain't gonna do it, folks. I suppose Obama thinks Boehner is a worthy golf partner, but really, he ought to know that Cantor, Ryan and Grover Norquist are full-blown slimeballs. They wouldn't turn on a hose if the President was on fire. Whether they admit it to themselves or not (and at least the Tea Partiers will say so), most Republicans are out to Beat the Black Socialist Boogeyman, full stop.
Hell, I could refute Repug falsehoods, and I'm certainly not a journalist. Most Republican lies are easy to knock off; one or two Google searches, along with the requisite reading, and you're done. I both blog and Tweet, so I know how to express myself. (I also don't have a smartphone, so I couldn't tweet breast shots even if I wanted to.) The point is getting the correct information out there, and not letting the propaganda take over. As much as I like Paul Krugman and Rachel Maddow, I don't think they should have to do all the heavy lifting.
Sometimes Barack Obama reminds me of a regal, stately Afghan hound, trotting along with his nose in the air, holding himself above the fray. Unfortunately, he's surrounded by pit bulls, he's about to get that stately nose torn off, and he needs to start fighting back.
May 29, 2011
"The Skillful and Sustained Use"
By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. ~Adolf Hitler
If anyone who reads this doesn't vow to never watch the Fake Noise Propaganda Machine ever again...you're simply not living in the real world.
The result of this concerted campaign of disinformation is a viewership that knows almost nothing about what’s going on in the world. According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers. They are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses, 17 points more likely to believe Muslims want to establish Shariah law in America, 30 points more likely to say that scientists dispute global warming, and 31 points more likely to doubt President Obama’s citizenship. In fact, a study by the University of Maryland reveals, ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network. That’s because Ailes isn’t interested in providing people with information, or even a balanced range of perspectives. Like his political mentor, Richard Nixon, Ailes traffics in the emotions of victimization.
Fox News is false, people. Inside and out. They are unfair and unbalanced, their "facts" are not facts, and the entire operation consists of nothing more than Republican shills...run by a paranoid Nixonian twerp.
Like I've said before, the greatest thing George Soros (or Bill Gates, or any other patriotic billionaire) could do for this country is buy this sucker--and shut it down.
As they say...read the whole thing.
If anyone who reads this doesn't vow to never watch the Fake Noise Propaganda Machine ever again...you're simply not living in the real world.
The result of this concerted campaign of disinformation is a viewership that knows almost nothing about what’s going on in the world. According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers. They are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses, 17 points more likely to believe Muslims want to establish Shariah law in America, 30 points more likely to say that scientists dispute global warming, and 31 points more likely to doubt President Obama’s citizenship. In fact, a study by the University of Maryland reveals, ignorance of Fox viewers actually increases the longer they watch the network. That’s because Ailes isn’t interested in providing people with information, or even a balanced range of perspectives. Like his political mentor, Richard Nixon, Ailes traffics in the emotions of victimization.
Fox News is false, people. Inside and out. They are unfair and unbalanced, their "facts" are not facts, and the entire operation consists of nothing more than Republican shills...run by a paranoid Nixonian twerp.
Like I've said before, the greatest thing George Soros (or Bill Gates, or any other patriotic billionaire) could do for this country is buy this sucker--and shut it down.
As they say...read the whole thing.
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