DL Open Thread Monday August 23, 2021
I’m still not watching any opinion/talking head panel “news” but I have pieced together the fact that according to Politico, Fox News, CNN and the New York Times, Joe Biden is the worst Hitler since the original Hitler.
You know the depth of the media’s malefaction if you read this ‘The American Media (Hearts) Forever War’ when Alby posted it.
Could Covid gets any better at killing wingnut radio personalities, homophobic preachers, and Red State screwball legislators?
One can hope.
Calling the GOP a “Death Cult” would be accurate but impolite – So the Media Doesn’t Do it.
Probably the most important rule of conventional media discourse in this country is that an accurate description of the contemporary GOP is not possible, because such a description would be so extreme that it would basically blow the standard structure of that discourse to smithereens.
For example, when front pagers and commentators here at LGM refer to the Republican party as a death cult, this must be interpreted by Very Serious People in the legacy media to be some sort of partisan hyperbole. In fact it’s about as hyperbolic as pointing out that the Pacific Ocean has a lot of water in it. In other words, it’s a very simple and straightforward description of an undeniable state of affairs:
If you want to take concrete action to oppose the Republicans trying to infect this country with disease and idiocy you can do these things today:
1) Research who your elected officials are from US Senator down to County Council and how they vote.
2) If they are Democrats, urge them to be more confrontational – or plan to primary them.
3) If they are republicans run against them – or support a candidate who will fight.
4) Read ‘Beyond the Super Voter’ at the Delaware Call
Thinking more about this: Calling the GOP a “Death Cult” would be accurate but impolite – So the Media Doesn’t Do it.
The extent to which the media is driven by the need to appear “Not liberal” is really astonishing. Conservatives really get to start every race, and begin every “debate” 100 yards ahead of the starting line because the media is to terrified of being accused of liberal bias.
On a lighter note first Mo Brooks and then Trump himself got booed for urging people to get the vaccination. Yes! They booed the cult leader himself, that’s the equivalent to telling Jim Jones “no, I don’t like Kool Aid”. As for the media their getting push back on Operation Blame Biden for Afghanistan, not enough but it seems Americans wanted to get out of that hell hole a decade ago.
All it means is he won’t use that line in future rallies.
Hopefully he will continue to use the self descriptive story of The Snake.