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like i said, the neo-fascist set had a bad couple days of news cycle management. maybe they're not used to it, given that they have their own media apparatus with a collective predelection for the circle jerk. but they did. and it's remarkable the way they've been squirming since. they obviously are concerned about their political language migrating outside the church when they cant control what is said about it. and they've been pretty good at managing this stuff---after all, they're the biggest neo-fascist movement in the west and they've avoiding being labeled neo-fascist. which is, i suspect, a bottom line fear---if things get really out of hand we could land there kind of thing. bad bad bad.
i have been reading quite a bit in the press since saturday from all sides and haven't really seen that much vitriol from those outside the church of american neo-fascism. what i've seen is people pointing out the nature of the political language. what i've seen is people emphasizing that this is poisonous stuff. what i've seen is people saying that what happened in tucson saturday happened in a political context. what i've also seen is an astonishing display of collective evasion by the right. they've tried everything: lying about what was said, presented themselves as the real victims of saturday's shootings and now likened their loss of control of news cycles to the blood libel. there's been the routine vitriol of beck, who spent his monday groveling at sarah palin's feet again, and that schizophrenic limbaugh just making shit up out of whole cloth. all this while complaining about vitriol.
it's been a pretty revealing performance. i hope it damages american neo-fascism for a long long time.
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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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