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Originally Posted by ziggytrix
But either way this guy is still fucked. The conservative media machine will do it's thing, Rupert Murdoch will get richer, and Americans can feel OK about themselves. Yay, happy ending.
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I agree that there is clearly a (dare I say) coordinated attempt by the Right-Wing talking heads to play this up, blow it up, and harp on it.
Blanco, you made some comment about it not being that slow of a news week. I think that's the point. The president is trying to sell his s.s. package, Condi is throwing the gauntlet at Iran, and other more important things. But these pundits, the Sean Hannitys, the Brit Humes, and the Joe Scarboroughs, ARE in fact focusing a LOT of attention on this. I don't think it's about money. The Weekly Standard has never made a dime for Rupert Murdoch, but it serves an ideological purpose for him. That's why these guys are focusing on this Churchill guy. It's not about
him per se, but rather, it's about the "liberal campus elites" who hate America, and the south, and are the antithesis of "Joe Six-pack."
This is a culture war thing to them, no doubt.......
BUT, that doesn't make them wrong about this one. The guy is a douche bag, and frankly, he sounds like a shitty professor who would only be able to teach in the most liberal, esoteric departments in the country. He said at a rally yesterday that he stood by his Eichman comments, and that all of the so-called "techno-crats" in the WTC were silently in compliance with the evil American regime. Please.