This week on the show: Food stamp cuts are an encouraging sign of bipartisanship, according to some media accounts. And journalists are fascinated by the “real” Mitt Romney–we’ll talk about why that’s troubling. Plus a domestic terror trial that’s not getting much press attention, perhaps because the terror suspects aren’t Muslim–but their targets were.
Watch:
The kumbaya people go on and on about how “we all have to come together,” about the need for more bipartisanship, how we need a populist party, and on. And these are mostly people on the Left saying this (because the RW really doesn’t want anything to do with the rest of us). Today, they got their wish.
I made similar comment on TRNN. Next time these appeals for one-ness appear in the comments sections, I will be pointing them back to stories like these that offer cases-in-point of why you don’t want to worship this way.
“NoDifference:” There is not, and has not been, a “kumbaya people.” That was purely a pol/media fabrication, a marketing strategy. For a very brief time, there was a measure of hope that Barack Obama would launch a legitimate public discussion/examination of American poverty, but this hope was very guarded, maintained only until proven invalid. After decades of sustained anti-poor propaganda, de-legitimizing those who are not of service to employers, citizen empathy and notions about “compassion” and “fairness” have been dramatically altered. There was a very slight hope that Obama would work toward restoring the values of the Dem Party, but no one was surprised when he went in the opposite direction. Overall, electing Obama was a matter of giving Democrats one more chance to show who and what they are. This is how we know that the upcoming election is already decided. The next president will be a Republican, and Democrats will be making only a weak pretense of trying to win the election (just enough to bring in a measure of donations).
Dear FAIR,
I am not sure if this merits a media alert or maybe an item on your blog, but the recent NYT op-ed piece “Losing the Propaganda War” (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/opinion/sunday/how-israel-is-losing-the-propaganda-war.html) is rather amusing in how it manages to make a comparison of South African Apartheid with the Israeli occupation in which almost every item of contrast actually turns out to be a point of similarity.
“In apartheid South Africa, people disappeared in the night without the protection of any legal process and were never heard from again. There was no freedom of speech or expression and more “judicial” hangings were reportedly carried out there than in any other place on earth. There was no free press and, until January 1976, no public television.
Masses of black people were forcibly moved from tribal lands to arid Bantustans in the middle of nowhere. A “pass system” stipulated where blacks could live and work, splitting families and breaking down social structures, to provide cheap labor for the mines and white-owned businesses, and a plentiful pool of domestic servants for the white minority. Those found in violation were arrested, usually lashed, and sentenced to stints of hard labor for a few shillings per prisoner per day, payable to the prison service.
None of this even remotely exists in Israel or the occupied territories.”