Chuck Muziani: Corporate Republican Mainstream Media is Still Spreading Disinformation and Bias. Some Things Never Change.

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by Chuck Muziani

President Obama and his administration are cruising at the moment, enjoying the high of a major landslide win last November. The stimulus package legislation is somewhat of a minor battle won, but a win nonetheless.
 
Congressional Republicans are angry, or at least, they're not smiling. But the right wing radio talkies are not "angry." Not really. In fact, if you've seen them lately, they are smiling more than ever. Oh, for a while during the tail end of 2008 and especially in November, they bowed their heads a little, and now and then they'd tilt their head back and growl or nip at a Democrat guest or vociferously sympathize with a Republican guest. But now, it's all just more bread and butter content to fuel their on-air hours. It will be a great four years. After all, hate radio sells, right?
 
It is in full swing. The right-wing media machine is stepping up their attack. Their mission: to moralize a faltering Republican base electorate and to convince Obama devotees that their devotions are misguided.
 
The right-wing talkies bolster the base by preaching their same 'ol, same 'ol. "Democrats are socialists!" "Liberal!" Liberal!" "They want to destroy America as *we* know it!" For right-wing talking heads, this is easy rhetoric and practically second nature. But difficulties lie ahead.
 
In approach and in goal, the right-wing talkies are attempting to make it appear that everything President Obama does in office will be detrimental to the country. Period. It's more of the same, but with a twist:
 
With no apparent party leaders to get in their way this time, such as DeLay, Hastert, Foley, right-wing talkies have no drag lines pulling down their rhetoric. The past eight years are such a muddied Republican failure that no one person, not even Bush, is being held especially accountable. And certainly, the talkies are not elected officials so their hands are clean, in their minds. "We did not agree with everything Bush did," they bark.
 
They believe plausible deniability is on their side. And so, feeling now as if "they were right all along" and "we've stuck to our core principles and called Bush on some things," their conservative mantra will rule once again but on their own terms, with long term contracts and signing bonuses to boot.
 
Let's face it, the Republican Party is a moor-less vessel at this point, certainly one without a captain where even some have jumped ship. For now, the only chance the party has is with right-wing media machine talkies, and the talkies are feeling slightly drunk with a bolstered sense of power:
 
* Rush Limbaugh
* Sean Hannity
* Laura Ingraham
* Michael Reagan
* Mike Gallagher
* Larry Elder
* Dennis Prager
* Hugh Hewitt
* Michael Medved
 
Make no mistake. Do not let down your guard. Even the landslide victory last November is not enough to stop the chiseling effect of right-wing talkies. Everything they do now is focused on destroying the Obama presidency, if not in actuality, then at least in virtual media perception.
 
Should the Obama Administration be successful in most of what has been proposed by 2010, all bets are off for the Republican Party and they full well know it. The party could not feature another significant win probably for decades.
 
Some very rich fat cats do not want that to occur. After all, America is all about who has the most, and not that the most should have much. Right?

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Chuck Muziani
Pittsburgh, PA