22-10-2009, 08:48 PM
For me, fundamentally, it's all theatre.
There's a lot of melodramatic posturing, and huffing and puffing. The Democratic Party remembers the way what we now call the Neocon right went after Clinton when he was in office. Amusingly, one of the right's attack dogs back then was Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, spookily connected hack and sometime roving correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.
Of course Faux News hates Obama, and will tell lies about his policies, such as healthcare reform, and pressurize him to send tens of thousands more American troops to the Eurasian land of oil and gas to wage geopolitical war.
Howver, if Obama seriously wanted to damage Faux News, he'd put the IRS and Immigration lawyers onto Rupert Murdoch, and destroy both his sweetheart tax deals and his fitness to be an "American".
I see no evidence that Obama is doing any of this.
The whole charade feels more like what happens in Britain when junior cabinet ministers are trotted out to denounce the BBC for their reporting of a particular issue.
There's a lot of melodramatic posturing, and huffing and puffing. The Democratic Party remembers the way what we now call the Neocon right went after Clinton when he was in office. Amusingly, one of the right's attack dogs back then was Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, spookily connected hack and sometime roving correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.
Of course Faux News hates Obama, and will tell lies about his policies, such as healthcare reform, and pressurize him to send tens of thousands more American troops to the Eurasian land of oil and gas to wage geopolitical war.
Howver, if Obama seriously wanted to damage Faux News, he'd put the IRS and Immigration lawyers onto Rupert Murdoch, and destroy both his sweetheart tax deals and his fitness to be an "American".
I see no evidence that Obama is doing any of this.
The whole charade feels more like what happens in Britain when junior cabinet ministers are trotted out to denounce the BBC for their reporting of a particular issue.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war