SORRY MICHAEL MOORE, CAN'T GO THERE WITH YOU ON THIS ONE
The FOX machine is digging in, despite all sanity militating against them.
Could have expected it.
I learned this from DeLay himself, who smiled for his police mug shot, so everyone, reportedly, could see Jesus in his visage.
I think there is a Goebbels quote, even, about admitting no wrongdoing, showing no contrition. (The more I read about fundamentalist christianism in Washington, the more I discover they are not strangers to the Nazi idea machine...)
Anyway, you'd think with a case so open-and-shut as Juan Williams's that they'd just make a lot of noise and go down in flames.
But, that won't be, apparently, because the tension brings out the innate recursiveness of the left wing.
Here's Michael Moore, just in time to take the focus off Williams and the role he should be playing as a responsible journalist and make it all about ... whatever else, enough to suddenly give the story legs. He's bought into the al-aqeada narrative hook, line, and sinker, at least so much that he thinks that there is some "there" there.
The next thing he'll be writing is that the reason Hamas can't be expected by us at the table, despite a painful withdrawal from Gaza, is because of 200 new units in the West Bank and other glaring non-sequiturs. Moore's completely unaware that the visible narrative, the 'cover story', motivated by other factors, just changes as soon as you take steps to sidestep it. Completely unaware.
So, no, Michael. It really is about sidelining wannabe-ascendent extremists and rejecting dangerous 'intimations campaigns'. That's true about muslims who tell lies and spread bigotry, by sidelining those of them who have convinced themselves that the U.S. military is occupying their 'sacred soil', whatever that is. That's true for Americans who sideline FOX propagandists who tell lies and spread bigotry, by a slyly crafted 'intimations campaign' that fans the flames of distrust, suspicion, and irrational rancor.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
The Juan Williams Saga
