You see, I'm not making this stuff up. The same people who told you we have to, in the name of freedom and our safety obey the
So whether or not Fox lives up to its promise of revealing some hideous hidden "truth" behind every aspect of the Obama presidency once a day for the first hundred days, I won't be watching them. Unfortunately others will and for them the fiction will seem real and the fear will grow. I find it hard to feel any kind of optimism and those who think that we've "won" and that things are in good hands now may soon find that the process of losing started on November 20th.
The people who watch Fox usually don't watch anything else. They have no idea that the lies and distortions they've been hearing are often repudiated and disproved by all the other news services. They haven't a clue that one of the largest anti-American campaigns, indeed the most organized program of treason against truth, justice and democracy is broadcasting 24 hours a day. Fox is using and will use everything they can find to undermine confidence in our government and anything it does and as you can see is hoping our country will fall and our hopes will fail. To me, it constitutes as great a danger to our future as any foreign enemy or global economic collapse. Traitors, saboteurs, liars and purveyors of irrational hate, Fox News is the enemy and anyone who hopes not just for our survival, but our improvement owes it to the world to use every opportunity to expose them.
Thank God for John Stewart.
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ReplyDeleteCaptain, there are self-identified conservative bloggers who are speaking against the slash-n-burn tactics of Limbaugh, Hannity, and others. I give these bloggers credit. It takes courage and intellectual honesty to traverse the political distance and say, for instance, what Tao says:
ReplyDelete“ … somehow over the course of the last twenty years conservatives have become the party of the big, the powerful, and the rich. For some reason we have become the philosophy that scorns the poor, ridicules immigrants, and shows no respect or tolerance for anything that is different from ourselves. Conservatives have become the 'country club' party. We seem to mistrust intellectualism and fearful of change …
Barack Obama won this election because he offered change and hope ... and all conservatives have done … is offer Americans nothing more than hate, arrogance, mistrust, complaining and viciousness.
Its time we gave up on Joe the Plumber, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Sarah Palin and the whole conservative persecution complex …”
I welcome Tao’s words, and the opportunity to have a thoughtful political conversation without enmity. Who knows? Maybe a new political realignment is taking shape, and all we need do is open our hearts and minds and rediscover our common humanity. I have added Tao's blog, A Radical Perspective, to our link list.
I've never confused the Limbaughians with anyone actually conservative and less so for excreta like Coulter and Malkin. In fact it seems Democrats are far more conservative in important ways than the opposition.
ReplyDeleteI'm simply of the opinion that such things do not go away by ignoring them, nor were any of the things that paleoconservatives championed, like slavery, segregation, and no votes for women overturned without open struggle. If you read the comments on this post in the Reaction, you can see what I mean.
Positive dialogue about Obama's actions is the best way to deflect the evils of Fox "News." In public, on blogs, here, on cell phones, wherever we go, share in positivity.
ReplyDeleteThat is the way Obama spread his message, and that is how we need to help him continue spreading the message.
I think that's very true. Proving them to be liars doesn't really help since the lie addicts don't buy facts. The best way to prove them wrong is to prove Obama right.
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