GOP Attack Machine Knows Misinformed Intensity of Emotion Wins Against Reason and Fact: FOX News Best Year Ever

 
Wealthy Progressives need to put their money where their political mouths are.

Progressives write books.  Mainstream America does not read books.

Like it or not, mainstream America gets its "news" from TV and radio. 

Conservatives and Neocons figured this out decades ago, and have been willing to put huge sums of money into purchasing TV and radio networks.  They use these vehicles to advance an agenda that favors the corporate interests of the top 1%.  They use lies, distortions and manipluation to get the bottom 99% of Americans to vote against their own self-interests.

Even if Progressives had equal access to TV and radio, it would be a challenge to get the truth out and fight the lies.  Without this access, however, it is impossible and any attempt to advance progressive issues is and will continue to be a complete exercise in futility.

 
Where are all the wealthy progressives?  Why have they not bought TV and radio networks?  Why do they still not get it?

Hey, Alec Baldwin, et al, take a break from your so-so contributions to HuffPo and buy something that would really make a difference.

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I live in rural Kentucky and know how this stuff works. It's a web of bible thumpers, non profits and Churches.
Most progressives have no idea why or how folks in rural areas get organized so fast and or why they are so mad and that's why the progressives, mostly in large metropolitian areas, will continue to be surprised with the right wing's ability to get their folks out.
I suggest until the progressive movement has a real understanding of what's going on in Rural America and take action to deal with it, it will only get worse. It's not enough to sterotype Right Wing Rural Americans as, racist or dumb asses, it's our respnsibility as progressives to find out why they are the way they are and change the enviroment. Of course that takes work and effort from Rural Progerssives like me, but when we do the work it gets ignored by the metropolitain progressives, because they, I feel, look down their noses at Rural Progressive Americans and in doing so allow the Right Wing agenda to flourish in Rural America.
This is one example of what's going on in Rural America, but it will be ingnored by the big city Progressives, because they don't have a clue.
Thanks for taking the time to read this and please excuse my venting, but what's going on is obvious to us and no one seems to listening.
James Pence

The right-wing media & the GOP long ago mastered the use of misinformation as a political tool. Wake up folks, while you're wasting time arguing about a public option for a health-care reform plan, the right wing is very effectively destroying all chances for even the most modest health care reform (again).

They have basically trotted out the same tactics they used to destroy the Clinton health-care effort, and it's working even better now than it did in 1993. The way this debate is going is really hammering progressives & democrats politically. Not only do I think it's unlikely ANY form of health-care reform will be passed this year, but I think the GOP will very possibly be able to use their effort to derail this as a springboard to take back control of congress next year.Worse, the way things are going, the GOP may have been right-this could be Obama's "Waterloo".

It's a nightmare watching this happen all over again.But,unless democrats unite RIGHT NOW (and I'm talking marching in lock-step here) in support of whatever modest reform plan that may still have any hope at all of passing, the progress we've made in the last two elections is going straight down the tubes.I can't overstate the need for pragmatism here. Anything else is political suicide.Please keep this in mind. I'd rather have 25% of something than 100% of nothing again- with a Jeb Bush presidency on top of that to boot!! I doubt any of you want that either, so stop sniping at each other & get to work!!

Instead of an outcry against FOX, perhaps it's time to call for the first steps in breaking corporate power over our lives.  We need to break the power of the 10 people at the head of various media conglomerates that control nearly all of the mainstream media by: (1) restoring the Equal Time rule for all public broadcasts and (2) reducing to one the number of media outlets that could be owned in any media market (i.e. an ownership of a nationally distributed paper would exclude you from owning any other media outlet--be it another paper, a TV station, or a cable channel). Rupert Murdock (who has reaped so much benefit from getting changes in the ownership rules in his favor) and GE would both see their power over our government substantially reduced.  Their lost power would strengthen the voices of individuals before their government and remove a primary vehicle for organizing Astroturf-rooted public rebellion.

Everybody knows. Twain noted (paraphrasing) that the lie spreads round the world befor the truth is even out of bed.

The stratagem functions flawlessly for the Pukes because the Media, upon which the lies depend, are all owned and operated by either the Owners themselves, or reliable satraps and shit-lickers in supervisory positions.

Today, and for the last 30 years, at least, America is a "corporate state." This means that, no matter the ostensible leader, or the nominal majorities enjoyed by the putative "people's party," or the "party" of the "elected" leader/president, the interests which the press serves are those of the hegemonic corporate State.

That is, as one smart fellow has said, "In the Corporate State, corporate media are the State Media."