It was never about political correctness, you know, the whole endlessly tiresome 'movement' under that vapid rubric.
It was all just a way to garner enough support eventually to get into positions in which you can push and shove your own way.
Proof. They can't even identify their own biases, let alone talk about them among themselves, in the rightwing epistemic bubbles. PC self lampoon. Another, in the same week, actually, as Fox continues its dangerous 'intimations campaign' about muslims.
But, congratulations to NPR for continuing to insist that there is a bigger pond, a greener pasture, a brand of journalism that is NOT Roger Ailes's propaganda machine.
And puffs and piffles to all those who get all gooey about these muscular moves to "Just say no".
Update: Andrew Sullivan says of FOX "pandering to bigotry makes for good ratings and good politics". The truth is perhaps even more fundamental. The pandering dovetails with the "cosmic struggle" narrative that prepossesses far too many the world over, but, more to the point, among the misled evangelicals in the country, civilian AND military (!).
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Juan Williams and the Twisting of "Free Speech"
