FOX News Brainwashes Republican Loyalists
Despite the President’s appalling poll numbers – a 32% approval rating --it is reported that about 70% of registered Republicans still support him.
It seems impossible to reconcile this rationally!
By every measure, America is worse off than it was six years ago. Not only does the engine of the Bush administration run on a tankful of bankrupt ideology, but the car keeps swerving off the road. Most of us can see the cliff up ahead and cringe as the vehicle recklessly accelerates. Many Republicans, on the other hand, seem to think we’re taking a nice Sunday drive in the country. How can this be?
Are these Republican loyalists asleep in the back seat? Are they so blinded by their affiliation that they cannot recognize the bungling, malfeasance and abject failure of their party’s leadership.
I think there’s another explanation: they’ve been brainwashed.
I’ve spoken to many Republicans who actually believe that the war in Iraq is not going that badly. That Katrina victims aren’t really such victims, after all. That global warming is just a tree-hugger’s fantasy.
This is just what you will learn if you watch FOX News.
For years, the right-wing has been telling its followers that the media is not to be trusted, that it is dominated by a liberal bias. They have been advised to avoid The New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN.
We could argue that all news reporting contains some element of editorial bias. That is not true of Fox News. Fox is primarily fiction disguised as news. You have as much chance of getting real news out of Fox as you would getting an unvarnished view of the West from Pravda in the height of the Cold War. Yet, Fox seems to be the primary source of the news for many Republicans. If that is the case, and if their media
exposure is filled out by listening to Rush Limbaugh, watching “Hannity & Colmes” and reading Anne Coulter, then it is no wonder that their view of reality is so skewed. Propaganda reinforces propaganda.
As for the alleged liberal bias of the mainstream media, I just don’t see it. In fact, I’ve seen mostly the opposite, as establishment news organizations generally goose-stepped into Iraq with the Bush Administration.
I don’t think unkindly of Republican loyalists, but I do pity them for what they are missing. There is a greater variety of news available today than ever before. Traditional media represents just a fraction of what is out there: check out Google News on the web for thousands of news sources across the globe! I think if we could just get these die-hard Bush supporters to open their eyes and minds, they’d discover what the rest of us already know: this administration remains an unmitigated disaster for America.
Oh, and that cliff is just ahead ….
It seems impossible to reconcile this rationally!
By every measure, America is worse off than it was six years ago. Not only does the engine of the Bush administration run on a tankful of bankrupt ideology, but the car keeps swerving off the road. Most of us can see the cliff up ahead and cringe as the vehicle recklessly accelerates. Many Republicans, on the other hand, seem to think we’re taking a nice Sunday drive in the country. How can this be?
Are these Republican loyalists asleep in the back seat? Are they so blinded by their affiliation that they cannot recognize the bungling, malfeasance and abject failure of their party’s leadership.
I think there’s another explanation: they’ve been brainwashed.I’ve spoken to many Republicans who actually believe that the war in Iraq is not going that badly. That Katrina victims aren’t really such victims, after all. That global warming is just a tree-hugger’s fantasy.
This is just what you will learn if you watch FOX News.
For years, the right-wing has been telling its followers that the media is not to be trusted, that it is dominated by a liberal bias. They have been advised to avoid The New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN.
We could argue that all news reporting contains some element of editorial bias. That is not true of Fox News. Fox is primarily fiction disguised as news. You have as much chance of getting real news out of Fox as you would getting an unvarnished view of the West from Pravda in the height of the Cold War. Yet, Fox seems to be the primary source of the news for many Republicans. If that is the case, and if their media
exposure is filled out by listening to Rush Limbaugh, watching “Hannity & Colmes” and reading Anne Coulter, then it is no wonder that their view of reality is so skewed. Propaganda reinforces propaganda.As for the alleged liberal bias of the mainstream media, I just don’t see it. In fact, I’ve seen mostly the opposite, as establishment news organizations generally goose-stepped into Iraq with the Bush Administration.
I don’t think unkindly of Republican loyalists, but I do pity them for what they are missing. There is a greater variety of news available today than ever before. Traditional media represents just a fraction of what is out there: check out Google News on the web for thousands of news sources across the globe! I think if we could just get these die-hard Bush supporters to open their eyes and minds, they’d discover what the rest of us already know: this administration remains an unmitigated disaster for America.
Oh, and that cliff is just ahead ….
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