Right-wing Republicans will destroy our nation and society

I take that back… they already have destroyed our nation. We just haven’t seen the effects yet.

Conservative takeover of America. Any idea when the ball really got rolling? 1980s, under President Reagan. What else happened under President Reagan regal reign? The corporate-conservative takeover of our media.

From Fec (http://fecundstench.com/WordPress/?p=307):

From Sun Valley Online:

“These individuals have entered public service not to serve the public interest but to subvert the very laws they are charged with enforcing in order to enrich the president’s corporate paymasters,” Kennedy charged. “They have imposed tremendous diminution in quality of live for people in this country. Most Americans don’t know about it, they’re unaware of the connections, they don’t make the connection, because we have a negligent and indolent press in this country that has simply let down American democracy.

I’m sorry, but an effective press wouldn’t make any difference at all to the apathetic WalMart people. They just wanna know about the next NASCAR event and Lindsay Lohan.

“The Pew [Research Center] just did a survey which showed that 30% of Americans now say their primary news source is talk radio, which is 95% controlled by The Right. Twenty-two percent said cable news, mainly Fox News. Ten percent [said] Sinclair Network –the most right-wing of them all- which is the largest television network in America and it’s run by a former pornographer who requires all 75 of his local affiliate stations to take a pledge not to report critically about this president on Iraq and other issues.

“Only 11% of Americans now read newspapers,” Kennedy went on, “The rest of us are getting our news from the traditional corporate media, ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN, who have no ideology other than their own pocketbooks.”

Thank you for making my point.

“The decline in American media began in 1988,” Kennedy recalled, “the de-evolution of American media, when President Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine. We had a law in this nation that was passed in 1928, at the dawn of commercial radio. The Fairness Doctrine said that the airwaves, like the waters and the air, belongs to the public. That the broadcasters can be licensed to use them but only if they use them with the proviso that they use them to promote –primarily- the public interest and advance American democracy.”

I knew The Gipper was behind it.

“Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1988 as a favor to the Christian Right, which was already plotting to the takeover of AM Radio and as a favor to the big studio heads, who’d helped him get elected, who were plotting the takeover of all media. As a result of that, today there are five giant multinational corporations that control all 14,000 radio stations in America, all 5,000 television stations, 80% of our newspapers, all of our billboards and most of the large internet content providers.”

The Christofascists were a given.

“People in Washington talk about red states and blue states and the values difference between them. They’re wrong about that. The values are all the same across America. But you know, 80% of Republicans are just Democrats who don’t know what’s going on.”

Ouch.

Seventy percent of the people who said they voted for George Bush said they believed Saddam Hussein bombed the World Trade Center. Seventy percent believed weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. Sixty-five percent believe that the American invasion of Iraq was strongly supported on the Muslim streets, by Iraq’s Muslim neighbors and our traditional public allies in Europe. Sixty-four percent said that they believe President Bush strongly supported the Kyoto Protocols and had strong labor and environmental standards in our international treaties.

Of the 10% who still read the paper, 50% only read the sports page.

“They went back twice to the same people,” Kennedy said, “the second time to determine where they were getting their news and invariably the people who had all this disinformation said their primary news source was talk radio or Fox News.

Again, ouch.

And they went back a third time to find out was people’s basic values are and they did that by posing a series of hypotheticals. For example, they said, ‘What if there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, what if Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with bombing the World Trade Center, what if the American invasion of Iraq was largely opposed on the Muslim street and by our tradition allies in Europe? Eighty-four percent of Democrats and eighty-four percent of Republicans said the same thing: We should not.”

See… It isn’t the “immorality” of all us ho-mo-sek-shoo-els who are destroying this nation. It is stupidity. Brought on by the watered-down muck we call “news.” And who’s to blame? The Republicans.

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