"Their Struggle"

Have you seen this? "An Open Letter to the Biased News Media." It's one of those raunchy peep shows starring some of the right's most flagrantly self-promoting flim-flammers--Media Reasearch Center's Brent Bozell, FreedomWorks' Matt Kibbe, Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, professional ranters Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, et al.--that you must see to believe. It's that bad.

It reads like Joseph Goebbels with a head injury--a drooling, dissociative screed whose only propagandistic benefit goes to those who've been publicly diagnosing the right's marked uptick in some rather worrisome neuroses. It's beyond peculiar. It's even beyond frighteningly nuts. It is, as noted, exceptionally bad, but it's also just plain funny.   

The NY Times' David Carr does an efficient job of knifing Bozell Inc.'s claims of orchestrated media bias, yet it's the open letter's claims themselves that are so amusing; claims, for instance, that the mainstream media's "deliberate and unmistakable leftist agenda" includes "Painting conservative ideas as extreme, while refusing to report the disastrous consequences of liberal programs enacted since 2008."

Which would be, maybe, Heritage Foundation's ObamaCare, a.k.a. RomneyCare? Or perhaps the president's numerous tax cuts? Or stimulus and infrastructure proposals that conservative Republicans routinely supported until Obama proposed them? Let's accede to calling the auto bailout a "liberal program." Was it really "disastrous"?

Here's my favorite: "Pouncing on real and perceived missteps by conservatives, portraying them as bumbling incompetents, while suppressing embarrassing and incendiary remarks made by Vice President Joe Biden to prevent him from becoming a liability." Yes, you know, like the media suppressed Biden's "chains" remarks. In the diabolically cleverest of ways. By airing and reprinting them over and over and over and over.

There are a half-dozen other indictments, each as sublimely lunatic as the above. Who will they persuade? No one. Who will salute them? Only other bumbling, incompetent, misstepping pseudoconservatives who are systematically pounding the Republican Party into a rathole of deranged irrelevance. 

Comments

[Robert Lipscomb]

"It reads like Joseph Goebbels with a head injury--a drooling, dissociative screed whose only propagandistic benefit goes to those who've been publicly diagnosing the right's marked uptick in some rather worrisome neuroses."

Awesome!

[Peter G]

When you are engaged in an ideological and metaphorical tug of war and are about to be drawn into the pit of goo then crying pullllll! does little good. What you get is: C'mon people, nuttttt.. Nut harder! Nut like you have ever nutted before! Nut as if your life depends on it!
And you are right that this is vastly entertaining.

[AnneJ]

It's not the "liberal" media's fault that right wing ideas make the general public recoil in horror. If today's republican policy proposals had a chance at being popular with the electorate then why won't the successful businessman and the wonky, republican boy wonder give any details when asked by the leftists such as Fox News' own Chris Wallace? If this is the party that loves to tout its personal responsibility cred, then why are they always blaming other people when things don't go their way?

[Ansel M.]

I second Robert's claim: that is an "Awesome!" sentence in an excellent piece!