New heights of stupidity
Glenn Greenwald
Salon.com
(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V - Update VI)
We're fighting multiple wars; our oldest and most established financial institutions are on the verge of collapse; we've fundamentally transformed and then dismantled our constitutional framework over the last eight years, etc. etc. But the Right and their media partners are striving to ensure that our election this year is going to be dominated and determined by whether John Kerry looks stupid in wind-surfing tights Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a "pig" when he invoked a meaningless cliché.
It isn't surprising that the McCain campaign wants this sort of tawdry, Freak Show/Reality Show vapidity to determine the outcome of the election. If you were them, wouldn't you want that, too? And though it's not news that establishment media outlets are so easily and happily manipulated by these tactics, tactics which enable them to cover "stories" which their empty-headed reporters can easily comprehend, it is still striking to watch the now-decades-old process unfold and observe how absolutely nothing has changed:
First, one of the mindless TV journalists gets convinced that it's a story -- in this case, Jake Tapper of ABC News, who wrote a whole article about the episode last night, claiming about Obama's "pig" comment that "the crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, 'What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.'" Tapper obviously has no idea what anyone in the crowd was thinking but, instead, was simply using the most frequent tool of journalistic deceit by projecting his own "thoughts" onto the voters on whose behalf he purports to speak.
(Continued here.)
Salon.com
(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV - Update V - Update VI)
We're fighting multiple wars; our oldest and most established financial institutions are on the verge of collapse; we've fundamentally transformed and then dismantled our constitutional framework over the last eight years, etc. etc. But the Right and their media partners are striving to ensure that our election this year is going to be dominated and determined by whether John Kerry looks stupid in wind-surfing tights Barack Obama called Sarah Palin a "pig" when he invoked a meaningless cliché.
It isn't surprising that the McCain campaign wants this sort of tawdry, Freak Show/Reality Show vapidity to determine the outcome of the election. If you were them, wouldn't you want that, too? And though it's not news that establishment media outlets are so easily and happily manipulated by these tactics, tactics which enable them to cover "stories" which their empty-headed reporters can easily comprehend, it is still striking to watch the now-decades-old process unfold and observe how absolutely nothing has changed:
First, one of the mindless TV journalists gets convinced that it's a story -- in this case, Jake Tapper of ABC News, who wrote a whole article about the episode last night, claiming about Obama's "pig" comment that "the crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, 'What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.'" Tapper obviously has no idea what anyone in the crowd was thinking but, instead, was simply using the most frequent tool of journalistic deceit by projecting his own "thoughts" onto the voters on whose behalf he purports to speak.
(Continued here.)
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