The Reality
Monday, April 06, 2009
They're Using Your Profession Against You
NewsCorp is a force of destruction.
Any actually reputable media outlet that claims any journalistic integrity, but which doesn't call out FOX News, is partially responsible.
For what?
Dead cops, for one.
Let's look at the shooting in Pittsburgh, where a activist 22-yr old Republican, wearing a bullet-proof vest, armed with a .22 rife, a handgun and an AK-47, killed three cops because of his "hatred of our Zionist-controlled government," the impending martial law, and the suspension of the 2nd Amendment.
Whoa, what would make that kid think that any of those things are true? He loved John McCain, so what? McCain didn't tell him to kill cops...
Oh, that's right, there's a 24-hour news channel on free basic cable dedicated to paranoid conspiracy theories, armageddon, eliminationism, and inspiring the heavily-armed hatred of liberals at any cost and in militaristic tones.
Here's the thing: I don’t recall homicidal frenzy being a normal part of the recessions of 1981-82, 1991-92 or 2001. What's so different about now?
First, the body count:
Could the difference be that not only do we now have a Democrat in the White House during a painful recession, but now there exists a full-time conservative TV apparatus that uses eliminationist, paranoid, violent propaganda to fear-monger and whip-up angry and depressed people (the sole product of recessions) into believing that liberals are to blame for their pain?
FOX is also telling people, that not only is the President a "Radical Left-winger" but that he is a "reverse racist" minority who may not even be an American citizen... plus, he "pals around with terrorists" -- as Sarah Palin made clear during the campaign. All of that libelous hate mongering is the cherry on top for these crazies.
Liberals want to take your guns, they want to make your kids gay and they used their racial quotas to give your jobs to undeserving minorities. Produced in two-minute segments. All day, every day.
Hell, Fox made this same case, that Liberals were to blame for everything, even when Conservatives controlled every branch of government. Now FOX just makes the same case louder because they don't have to spend half their time apologizing for Bush's failures.
If only cops weren't getting killed as a result. Maybe FOX News hoped that only Democratic Senators would would be the targets.
Sarah Palin, what happens when you equate your political opponents with your battlefield enemies? People die.
If any reporters out there want to try to tell the story behind the blood bath that has been 2009, watch FOX.
UPDATE: 6-11-2009: After the assassination of an OB/GYN doctor at an abortion clinic in Kansas, and the attack on the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. by a white-supremacist and "birther" this video from Media Matters says it all:
This place is too conservative to work.
Any actually reputable media outlet that claims any journalistic integrity, but which doesn't call out FOX News, is partially responsible.
For what?
Dead cops, for one.
Let's look at the shooting in Pittsburgh, where a activist 22-yr old Republican, wearing a bullet-proof vest, armed with a .22 rife, a handgun and an AK-47, killed three cops because of his "hatred of our Zionist-controlled government," the impending martial law, and the suspension of the 2nd Amendment.
Whoa, what would make that kid think that any of those things are true? He loved John McCain, so what? McCain didn't tell him to kill cops...
Oh, that's right, there's a 24-hour news channel on free basic cable dedicated to paranoid conspiracy theories, armageddon, eliminationism, and inspiring the heavily-armed hatred of liberals at any cost and in militaristic tones.
Here's the thing: I don’t recall homicidal frenzy being a normal part of the recessions of 1981-82, 1991-92 or 2001. What's so different about now?
First, the body count:
- Knoxville UU Church shooter actually wanted to kill "every single liberal and all Democrats in the Senate."
- 7 residents, 1 nurse, killed in NC nursing home shooting. [AP]
- Man kills wife, five kids, himself, after being fired. [CNN]
- 6 dead and 1 critical after Santa Clara massacre. [Register]
- Ohio family found dead in suspected murder-suicide. [CNN]
- Funeral, for four killed Oakland police. [MSNBC]
- Binghamton, NY, 14 killed in murder-suicide at immigration center.
Could the difference be that not only do we now have a Democrat in the White House during a painful recession, but now there exists a full-time conservative TV apparatus that uses eliminationist, paranoid, violent propaganda to fear-monger and whip-up angry and depressed people (the sole product of recessions) into believing that liberals are to blame for their pain?
FOX is also telling people, that not only is the President a "Radical Left-winger" but that he is a "reverse racist" minority who may not even be an American citizen... plus, he "pals around with terrorists" -- as Sarah Palin made clear during the campaign. All of that libelous hate mongering is the cherry on top for these crazies.
Liberals want to take your guns, they want to make your kids gay and they used their racial quotas to give your jobs to undeserving minorities. Produced in two-minute segments. All day, every day.
Hell, Fox made this same case, that Liberals were to blame for everything, even when Conservatives controlled every branch of government. Now FOX just makes the same case louder because they don't have to spend half their time apologizing for Bush's failures.
If only cops weren't getting killed as a result. Maybe FOX News hoped that only Democratic Senators would would be the targets.
Sarah Palin, what happens when you equate your political opponents with your battlefield enemies? People die.
If any reporters out there want to try to tell the story behind the blood bath that has been 2009, watch FOX.
UPDATE: 6-11-2009: After the assassination of an OB/GYN doctor at an abortion clinic in Kansas, and the attack on the National Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. by a white-supremacist and "birther" this video from Media Matters says it all:
This place is too conservative to work.
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