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i think this entire tempest in a teapot has unfolded on basically disengenuous grounds. in the ny times article yesterday which outlined the trajectory of this little affair--how it happened, when it happened, why now, that sort of thing--it is obvious how this took shape: pre-packaged from limbaugh, relayed through faux news and the reactionary blog-world....
there are two kinds of political power: the kind that you see reflected in the number of votes you can muster, and another which lay in the ability to shape the terms within which debate unfolds. i think the right is in for a very rude awalening in the coming elections on the former. i am a bit bewildered as to how they hang on to vestiges of the latter.
but in this amurica, land where money can buy you repetition can buy you legitimacy no matter how fatuous the content, the right maintains a degree of ideological power. this is a little flex, a testing of the waters (to impute a bit of tactical intent to this).
personally, i would like it to become as obvious as possible how this temepst in a teapot happened, who set the terms, how those terms were picked up and repeated, and in whose interests they operate, because it provides a little outline of the continued reach of the pestilence that is the conservative ideological apparatus.
and we wont be rid of it until their ability to shape debates is broken.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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