j_b

it's not about polarizing tone but about message content. Class warfare waged by the wealthy and their political stooges is polarizing. But let's not kid ourselves: the right wing message for so long has been about fear and hate, calls to murder in the media (Assange, Chavez, etc..), demonizing and threats against government employees, demonizing of immigrants and Arabs, treachery and terror, renewing the tree of liberty while packing guns that were banned until a few years ago, denying that millions of innocents die because of our military adventurism, etc ... You certainly won't find an equivalent message coming from the left.

The conjuncture is very different today. Hate and fear mongering are very effective when people have many reasons to be afraid of the future. For all we know, this could be the beginning of a very destabilizing campaign of terror.

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the fascistic smear job goes on unabated

right, I should just get over being repeatedly associated with terrorists and commies on the internet because I advocate left wing politics. Count on it, jackass!

that part sucks but it's not decided by schools or is it?

Kids at school make it that it's very difficult to avoid commercial mass culture but, schools? there isn't much schools can do when so many institutions are failing at once.

because calling someone a terrorist or a commie in the middle of a political discussion on the internet nowadays isn't likely to make them think twice about what they say? You are retarded or at least you play a credible one.

You aren't seriously contesting that you have called me a commie and a terrorist for years despite my protests?

I am not trying: I am claiming that you are, or playing to be, a right wing creep who enjoys smearing people by accusing them of being terrorists/reds on the internet in the best tradition of Joe McCarthy. That alone should make your acquaintances think twice about mingling with individuals like you.

Not really. In fact, i expected that shame would have made you stop but apparently not, which explains my genuine question about being somewhat retarded (although I do not remember you being especially stupid in real life) or some far right wing zealot.

years of being a McCarthyite goon on the internet and proud of it. Good job creep!

you know what they say about wrestling with hogs!

I hope there will be a prominent progressive candidacy. Might as well prepare for it starting now, as it may just be the only way to force Obama to the left a little.

I think that's more likely a weeks worth, not a years worth. Steven made the call and out it comes:-) So predictably funny. How predictable and sad that right wingers like Bill think McCarthyite baiting by fascistic morons is funny. It's not weeks, PP has been baiting "reds and terrorists" for as long as I have been been posting here. Another smear job from a right wing nutjob. Try to be coherent once in a while: ihow can they be my "arab equivalent", if they are bashing AL Jazeera. Think before you post, and it'll give you a chance to appear making sense.

My logic is fine. It's just that you are such a nincompoop that you have no idea what you are discussing. They didn't vote for regressive: they just didn't vote, like in 2010. When pols repeatedly betray their constituencies like Democrats have done for decades now, fewer and fewer people vote. It's called being disenfranchised when people have nobody they want to vote for because all candidates represent the corporate party. right of center NPR being called liberal by conservatives (like all media being called liberal) is the equivalent of corporatist Obama being called a socialist by the right wing. More Orwellian tactics from the right wing.

Clinton won a 2nd term because the tech/dotcom bubble was inflating in 96. Few people cared about the GOP media witch-hunt of the Clintons as long as there were jobs, easy to get credit cards and their house values were going up. Dems took a shellacking in 94 because their base told them to get lost as Clinton was clearly a corporate tool. Obama is in a very different situation as the economy and the job situation will most likely still be in the shitters 2 years from now. He won't be able to incite a voter turnout like in 08 now that most people, especially youth, have wisened up to his con. If the GOP runs a serious candidate I don't see him as a sure win at all, quite the contrary in fact.

those not willing to waste their time on KKK's worthless spew can watch this documentary about corporate media and propaganda: [video:youtube]AzDGYct7s40

Don't Defund Public Broadcasting--Improve It The smart way to fight back against right-wing attacks on NPR and PBS 10/28/10 Here we go again. Conservative activists and Republican politicians are calling--one more time--to defund public broadcasting. The supposed offense this time around is NPR's decision to fire analyst Juan Williams over comments he made on Fox News Channel about his fear of people in "Muslim garb." The episode is proof, in the eyes of right-wing politicians, that public broadcasting is run by left-wing ideologues who use tax-supported media outlets to spread their liberal message. The charge is nonsense--and always has been. FAIR's research of NPR and PBS programming over the past 20 years has consistently shown a tilt towards elite guests and sources--government officials, corporate representatives and journalists from the commercial media. FAIR's new study of public television (Extra!, 11/10) finds the same: a system that, by and large, fails to offer the "public" much of a hearing at all. That narrow range of voices is bad when it's on commercial television, but it's even worse when you consider that public television's founding document calls for a system that would give voice to those "who would otherwise go unheard" and help us to "see America whole, in all its diversity." The threats from the right to zero out public broadcasting are decades old, and there's no reason to think they will work this time around. But what they can do is remind those in power at PBS and NPR that the right expects them to act. And that part of their strategy has always been remarkably effective, particularly on public television. Conservative pundits have been granted airtime over the years--often as hosts of their own shows--in order to placate right-wing critics. That's how the Wall Street Journal editorial page got its own show on public television a few years back, along with a program for conservative pundit Tucker Carlson (FAIR Action Alert, 9/17/04). Public broadcasting should be pushed, of course--to live up to the high-minded ideals that established these systems in the first place, not to please conservative politicians or to serve up programming that corporate underwriters want to bring to the airwaves. Last week, many public television stations were airing Food Sense, a documentary about the nation's food supply that, according to its producers's website, was underwritten by agribusiness giant Monsanto. The site describes the show: "ABC News Now contributor and Today show food trends editor Phil Lempert and a group of industry experts illuminate a one-hour public television special that asks and answers the important questions surrounding the nation's food supply." This is "public" television? If the pressure from the right is to be effectively countered, it's not nearly enough to say, "Don't Defund NPR." What is needed is a call for public broadcasting to fulfill its mission, bringing independent, provocative programming that features voices ignored or marginalized by the commercial media. If you want to join that call, add your name to FAIR's petition urging PBS to bring back the program Now, which exemplified the kind of journalism that should be available throughout public broadcasting. Sign the petition today. http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4187

it looks like the goons are trying their best to derail this thread.

Is *that* j_b's basis for dislike of NPR? Guess the fascistic thug is calling the kettle black... The smear job goes on. Fascists routinely use your smear tactics.

check out PP all proud of my responses to his years worth of his best impersonation of a McCarthyite goon harassing left wingers. Is PP totally moronic or really that far to the right?

around 70% of NPR sources are government/corporation. Only 7% are from public interest organizations/associations. The public in NPR is the 20% random testimony of people picked on the street (i.e. without a coherent message). Data is my recollection of study done by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

the new McCarthyites in congress: http://www.democracynow.org/2011/1/3/incoming_gop_house_chairs_plan_to

here come the right wing trolls, although our goon friend is right on message today: "the deviants are commies and they are terrorists!" He is getting ready for the new McCarthyist witch hunt.