Kurt @ 19

One thing I have taken away from this whole experience, is the conspiracy of the right-wing that exists to alter this country into something alien. (not a conspiracy in the tinfoil hat sense, but in a coordinated, networked, quasi-legal sense).

One of the things I hope we can do going forward, once the smoke clears from this current episode, that is, is to ourselves coordinate an attack on this entire right-wing network. Attack their funding. Attack their reach in the media. Attack their apologists. Attack their enablers.

This is something the netroots is ideal for.

Yeah, I gotta give Hillary props here. She was right, there is a VRWC.

If only she’d stuck with the insight. You can cut the McCarthyism in the air with a knife. Of course McCarthy could only dream about what they’ve accomplished … for a short while.

There’s a word for it. I caption emails to friends on the latest Rovian or Luntzian tactic “Gleichschaltung 101″ and on up the scale depending on the sophistication level. It’s Goebbels’s word for coordination of the political culture through the mass media and party and parallel organs. He worked each case differently. He knew people let their guard down for movies (as in docudramas) more than for newsreels, so he poured more into cinema. Newspapers were widely owned, so he designed a format for press conferences that Tony Snow would die for, then concentrated ownership over time.

The thing of it is, it is in plain view. Nothing this vast could be hidden, even in the twilight. Luntz’s memos leak out; so do Boehnert’s talking points. Other public or leaked moves fall right under the concept. It’s all nauseating but instructive.

The good news: we’ve caught on. Chomsky said there are just two forces in the world: corporations and public opinion. Our friends can’t count past 1. They’re paying for it.

They either present the Truth in place of truthiness or they lose me as a viewer. Period. Disney too. And I will be taking a look at all of ABC’s advertisers as well to see about a little boycott.

I want the Truth: The outgoing Clinton Admin vainly attempting to warn the incoming Bush Admin that terrorism and Al Qaeda was the biggest national security issue, with the Bushies giving them the finger. AG Asscrack telling his daily briefers to stop presenting on terrorism. Bush “reading” (yeah, right, reading) My Pet Goat to a room full of children while planes were striking targets in NY and DC…and then running scairt to Texas to hide until everything was “safe”.

I want the Truth. Objective, documented, recorded truth rather than partisan fantasy.

By the way, you have apparently altered the engine to your sight in recent history. It no longer works as per open, documented web standards as I can no longer submit comments using Konqueror, a truly open and documented standards-based web browser for Linux (including standards-based java and javascript). As a result I have to load an alternative browser specifically for this site if I wish to comment or whatnot. As a result of THIS I am only rarely participating on this blog any more.

Please look into the way your comment system works and ensure that it is using full and properly documented standards rather than some propriatory or perverted varient of actual standards. Please?

It’s great to see you blogging. I really enjoyed (if that’s the correct word) “How would a patriot act?” and am looking forward to Marcy’s book. (I’ve linked to that blog here from my blog and told people to help out.) :)

I have linked to your blog here from my blog about this GOP propaganda film!

There are two things that still bother me about this.
1. Where is the funding for it coming from? I cannot imagine for one minute that the shareholders of a large corporation would be happy about a company spending 10’s of millions on something with no return!

2. This is not just an American problem. This is Global in scope! The ABC is being cute about the “docudrama” within the USA, but is blatantly lying to everyone outside the USA! As I said on my blog, it is being promoted in Australia (for example):
“The Path to 9/11 – For the first time… the story of exactly what happened…” and “… Official true story…”
This does NOT gel at all with what Disney/ABC are reporting within the USA! It basically means that the ABC is making a blatant attempt to sway international opinion in favour of the Bush Administration.

Hopefully, we will get answers soon. Again, thanks for all you have done!

Cheers. :)

I suspect Rove had a hand in this and he and hard-core Bush supporter Spellings go back to the days before Bush was governor. Remember the story that Spellings declined Rove’s invitation to go on a date with him? Who would have thunk it? Romeo Rove.

And, thank you for your great work.

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op99 @ 137

For today’s assignment, Exile on Ericsson St. and I (and optimusprime of RochesterTurning.com)got ourselves interviewed by the ABC local affiliate for tonight’s 11 o’clock news, giving our side of the “Path to 911″ kerfluffle. They think it will be edited fairly, I fear it will be twisted into a “well, you’re free to change the channel if you don’t like it” story. We’ll soon see. I’ll try to get the footage to you as soon as my more technologically proficient Drinking Liberally cohorts arrange it.

It lead the newscast, and Exile and I made the cut. They did frame it as a first amendment issue, but we got much better representation and airtime than I hoped. No Republicans were interviewed. I give it a “B”. Working on a youtube for all y’all.