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Don’t Think of an Elephant
When Upton Sinclair wrote that seminal muckraking novel The Jungle, published in 1906, he later reflected on its national impact thusly: "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
The War on Intellectuals Ramps Up
No: the war on intelligence and intellectualism is fully underway. And intelligent progressives need to remember this one ...
Home, Home on Derange
OK. When we crunch all the data, the Rightie/Romney/R-Money tactic of choice for the fall election becomes clear....
Spiking the Football
But Oliver North was run for the Senate from Virginia (he lost). Thence to radio, and now to the Chautauqua circuit and a weekly show on Faux Nooz. Meanwhile, G. Gordon Liddy, Nixon's Ollie North, sells you gold during the commercial breaks.
The Witching Hour
The Righties have succeeded in making their meme more important than the anniversary whose celebration disgusts them so. Thus (bizarrely using -- not for the first time this week -- a UK newspaper and Writer/Blogger Toby Harndon to push their poisonous "American" blog linkages)
Welcome To The New Underground Press
The old establishment "megamedia" still define the narrative -- of course, for years, lazy talk show hosts and teevee news took their cues from the New York Times, nationally, and when we HAD local radio talk shows (before the Limbaugh putsch), they invariably took their cues from the local newspaper.
The Jaws that Bite, the Claws that Catch
The Daily Caller, funded by Foster Friess -- who's such a control freak that when the SuperPac he funded wouldn't spent more money in Wisconsin a few weeks ago, PERSONALLY made Santorum radio ad buys -- continues its role as a political assassin. Here's the reptile brain argument...
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