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Old 08-19-2010, 06:04 AM   #208 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by roachboy View Post
let's recap, shall we?

first a racist blogger creates a canard about a mosque at ground zero.

that gets picked up by the conservative media apparatus and made into a cause célèbre all for the greater good of the conservative media apparatus which always enjoys higher ratings and bumps in advertising rates from viking international (don't be caught with fiat currency when helter skelter comes! buy gold now!) when a group hate is underway. double plus good, that. always double plus good.

the group hate acquires enough media-momentum that it starts to freak out the moderates and some ultra-rightwing strategists who say to themselves:

wait....where's the advantage of being seen as racists?


and that unleashes a bit of a pushback from the remarkably passive non-conservative media apparatus, including a theatrical suggestion that an investigation might be in order because

maybe

just maybe


there's some conservative astroturf being spread again.

which means of course that conservatives are the victims.
not the people who happen to be muslim around the united states who have had to endure the spectre of yet another round of conservative-driven racism directed their way.

o no.

conservatives are the victims.

unbelievable.
I don't see anything in your above scenario where the government is involved until we get to Nancy Pelosi's comments and the pesky little issue of the first amendment. Granted, the blogger that started this is way off base, but it is his or her constitutional right to speak without threat of congressional investigations.
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