Willravel

Look at what these liberals do to us! Look how they mischaracterize us!
Indeed. I guess I've never offered a mea culpa or changed my mind on an issue here, eh? Or maybe those are clever ploys to throw you off the elitism trail! How clever am I? Oh, there I go again!


Fox News is just another staged play; entertainment. It just happens to entertain with facile propaganda and fear mongering. The fact that it's so often the center of attention only feeds the beast further and therein lies the problem with victimhood (to bring this all back together). Fox News is the oft disregarded but more recently bombarded beacon of the right, that last bastion of what is presented as conservatism but what's really nothing but filler, folly and foolishness. Because of this new attention from the administration, the anti-left asshats assemble for an absolute attack, empowered by the... you guessed it... victimhood. The cycle hums into action, absurdity gaining attention, then attention turning to absurdity.

All we ever had to do was ignore it and watch something better, but I'm guessing the cycle has already cycled too many times. Noam Chomsky recently warned to take the Tea Party 9/12 folks seriously because regardless of their mistakes in perception or logic, they have grievances and those grievances won't go away. The fact that they get their scripts from corporate entertainment networks and radio stations is immaterial now. The middle-class, white, baby-boomer "peasants" have pitchforks. That's what I think of Fox. It's entirely benign except that the crazies absolutely adore that it validates their fantasies about being under siege, occasionally facilitating and excusing things like shooting police officers in Pittsburgh, murdering a security guard at a holocaust museum, assassinating an abortion doctor, or opening fire in a Unitarian church.