tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post8893083539706379947..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: Center? What Center?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-58780720202047813552010-09-20T18:34:34.568-04:002010-09-20T18:34:34.568-04:00Ooops: that quote SHOULD say "You've lost...Ooops: that quote SHOULD say "<i>You've</i> lost Walter Cronkite..."JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-44912744171221681242010-09-20T18:33:08.368-04:002010-09-20T18:33:08.368-04:00Two thoughts:
Daniel P. Moynihan (attrib.): "...Two thoughts:<br /><br />Daniel P. Moynihan (attrib.): "You're entitled to your own opinions. You're not entitled to your own facts."<br /><br />Aide to LBJ, c. 1968, re Vietnam: "You're lost <b>Walter Cronkite</b>: you've lost America."<br /><br />With the rise -> omnipotence of FAUX News, NEVER have so many Americans "had their own facts."<br /><br />There simply isn't a COMMON authority, like Cronkite, to refer back to anymore. <br /><br />Rupert Murdoch has proved (building on the pockets of wingnuttery built over 20 years by Rush Limbaugh & Rightwing Talk Radio) that you can CREATE YOUR OWN SELF-SERVING "FACTS", and have it believed by those who want to hear hysterical white people ranting to them, like they themselves do.<br /><br />"Taking back Our America!": to the extent "Their America" existed AT ALL, it was ~150 years of racist Manifest Destiny of "Guns (gone nuclear at the end), Germs and Steel" . . . w/ some dumb luck added on.<br /><br />But instead of FACING FACTS (and history) . . . the hysterical white people would rather have their fears read back at them, via FOX (sort of like Adolph H read back Germans' fears, via <i>Mein Kampf</i>?)<br /><br />One of these years, the non-white/non-hysterics will wake up, and realize they can beat back the white hysterics at EVERY election . . . IF they show up!<br /><br /><br />Till then, Oy Vey...JCFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-35044400686771313352010-09-20T10:48:46.129-04:002010-09-20T10:48:46.129-04:00@Doxy, it's sad indeed when the democrats only...@Doxy, it's sad indeed when the democrats only have to be not as bad as the republicans.<br />And it's usually true, the dems really aren't so extreme. But this is a very low standard to meet.JayVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02892272648798100594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-60427890819560914432010-09-20T08:54:06.130-04:002010-09-20T08:54:06.130-04:00To my mind, the Obama Administration's biggest...<i>To my mind, the Obama Administration's biggest liabilities with the folks who turned out for them in 2008 are Afghanistan and the decision to continue and expand the Bush/Cheney national security state.</i><br /><br />Add to that the *total* cave-in on meaningful healthCARE (as opposed to health insurance) reform and the failure to do anything on DADT, ENDA, and DOMA.<br /><br />I will vote because it's a responsibility I take seriously. But I am sick to death of being taken for granted--and I am tired of having to hold my nose to pull the lever, just because the other candidate is "worse."<br /><br />I wanted someone to believe in. I still do.Wormwood's Doxyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10882756844690851674noreply@blogger.com