Jeremiah Blues 2017.10 Part 2

After listening to more mental gymnastics by the right today, I have to revisit yesterday's controversy.  First, the backlash against the CBS lawyer who was unsympathetic to the shooting victims is being framed to make her into some kind of liberal poster child while calling for her perpetual firing (and probably worse if many conservatives had their way).  She is no spokesperson for the left. And second, they have tried to tie her disrespectful attitude into some larger view coextensive with the mainstream media. She isn't a representative of the popular view either. But in this new paradigm it's their fault. And hers. And ours.  But never theirs.

I would urge conservatives who think that media reporting has become uncivilized, and yearn for some long lost detachment from the public sphere, to look back at where this started.  One only needs to look back to the 1990s to see the fragmentation of public discourse into uncivilized confrontation. with the start of Fox News and the rise of Rush ( and a demeaning attitude toward the presidency).  The right started this de-evolution.  Anyone who finds Geftman-Gold's posts distasteful better check that they have not supported all of the vile things spewed nightly on Fox from Hannity, O'Reilly or Coulter, who have said things just as bad.

Even worse, I have to again refer to an advisor to our very own president, Mr Scumbag Alex Jones who has said things far worse.  But yet, I never heard calls for his immediate firing or exile from the American community. No, he got promoted to presidential advisor.  His disgusting fake accusations against the children of Sandy Hook should have got him excommunicated from the human race. So, before I hear one more word of bitching from conservatives, they better take at look at their own closet of past sins and denounce those which they have been complicit with.

Furthermore, it is amazing how the right has twisted and distorted events to make themselves look good.  It is what they do well, and they are far better at preemptive psychological warfare than  liberals.  Now, in their perverse narrative, the left has become the Fascists, inciting violence and waging war on: whites (dafuq?). To illustrate, they cite Charlottesville.  So although one of their Neo-Nazis killed an innocent person, the left are (now) the totalitarian aggressors.  The cognitive dissidence is strong.  But this is the danger, that their outrageous lies will become the recognized narrative.  Conservatives are the masters of fake news, and they are becoming masters of identity politics, driving a wedge between traditional Christian whites and everybody else, and trying to divide liberals into white/non-white conflict as they make the idea of  a white liberal a contradiction (although I imagine that numerically whites are still a significant majority of the left).

This outrage on the right is just a mask to cover the monstrosities currently emerging, but it may take down the entire country.