What’s know nothing and racist about their campaign?

It’s angry and negative, but I don’t see the racism or “know nothing-ness”

A masterful piece of analysis that must be spread far and wide! Thank you for your powerful words!

I like it when they yuck it up, its so funny.

What is it the Muggles say..’ “Truth will out”? Yah right.

See it would be easy to be a pundit:
R’s everything they say is the complete opposite and 100% hypocrtical. Even with my basic knowledge this is easy to pick up. I do not discuss politics with my spouse often and she pokes at CNN.com or something on occasion and even to her this is obvious (she was commenting on the fact that there must be lots of low-information voters; I also add to that that there are many mis-informed voters).

D’s – All the good stuff they promise they will never do.

The media’s job is to ensure the election can be completed on personality/theme and no policy is discussed. That is a coup.

hmm…

know-nothing:

global warming denial; denial of humans as cause of global warming; denial of evolution

racist:

Obama as “uppity”

Thanks for another round of “questions”.

Thanks so much, Glenn. This deserves very wide publication.

Tell it brother! Rock on!

Of particular note was linking Obama “hope, etc” to helping 2 million people with AIDS in the entire country of Africa (gotta keep the pharma bucks rolling in), this occured in one of the main speeches.

This drew hoots and cat calls from the RNC.
I think it may have been intentional.

The bottom line is, a crossroads in the country’s destiny is here, now. The country is facing a choice; to continue as it presently is, down a blood slickened, treacherous path to empire and failure; to try to return from whence we were and try to erase the footprints leading to the crossroad, barring retracing again the path leading to this crossroad; or embark upon whatever unknown destination that may lie upon the crossing path, trying to foresee the lands ahead from few scant clues scattered along the way. No maps exist to guide the way, the road-signs have been tampered and are not to be trusted.

How will the media be recorded as doing, there is no going back and taking an alternate route once the path is chosen. The choice is entirely the responsibility of the media at this point, how will they meet their responsibility?

When has John McCain’s campaign denied evolution?

I didn’t know “uppity” was a racist term.

From dictionary dot com:
“uppity
Adjective
Informal snobbish, arrogant, or presumptuous [up + fanciful ending] “

Don’t be feeding the creature now Doc. ;-)

Ready for Ike?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkqqMPPg2VI

It’s 2008. Let’s not pretend that ‘uppity’ is not a racist term, especially when referring to a black person.

Am I not allowed to ask valid questions without an “uppity” response? I’d appreciate a well thought out answer without sarcastic arrogance.

Come on now, pups. Do not feed…

my bad, T-Bear ;)

[Jeebus, my learning curve wants for slope]

The McShame campaign is playing a “your with me or your against me” game.
If your with me it’s sprinkly donuts and bbq if your against me – see Larry King. WIll the MSM knuckle under? Are they a fourth estate or a fifth column?

Politics is not the solution, it is the problem. The media companies are pocketing your money and selecting your candidates, and your leaders. Remember that scarcely a decade ago, there was no such thing as a “political TV show” – at least not daily. Now, as soon as the election is decided, the media starts beating the drum for the NEXT election cycle.

Here’s a flashback to something I wrote two years ago – see if it still applies:

STOP.

Stop talking about politics – and the elections that are nearly two years away. Haven’t you noticed? It’s the MEDIA that has convinced you that this topic is valid every day of every year.

THINK BACK.

Remember when there were no 24/7 cable news channels? Remember when there were no TV shows devoted solely to politics?

When election cycles were over, they were OVER. Those who were elected set about doing the people’s business, and the people got back to focusing on the issues that MATTER.

Look at what the system of Politics hath wrought.

Why is the topic of a Presidential race nearly two years away relevant on every news show, and every message board so early? This country has been reduced to EXACTLY what our MASTERS have chosen for us.

Bickering over which preordained puppet will be (s)elected by the globalists to (appear to) run the country is just masturbation.

Only men and women of low moral character (subject to bribes and blackmail) are even allowed in to the political arena in the first place. Why do you think the Congress is so complacent and compliant? They all work for the same boss – but it’s not you.

The social scientists and propagandists have managed to divide the country in half, with people who call themselves Democrats and Republicans talking AT each other 24/7 – as if it mattered.

We are all mindless sheep, doing as we are programmed by the images we see on our screens and the messages that are conveyed to us by Used Car Salesman who just happen to have been put in positions of (apparent) power by those in REAL POWER.

Since 1950, the Council on Foreign Relations has been David Rockefeller’s child. The CFR serves the interests of Rockefeller’s global empire of oil and financial interests (Exxon, Chase Manhattan Bank, JP Morgan Chase).

Founder of Council On Foreign Relations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ensmPJm5B5A&NR

David Rockefeller & Dick Cheney:

American Traitors…

Cheney laughs about lying to his constituents in order to get elected:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdxLYuvvbgs&NR

You are indeed welcome to express yourself. You are not entitled to other peoples agreement with this ludicrous assertion.

Let it go man. It’s either ignorance or artifice, either way it ain’t worth it.

I’ve never heard the term used with racist connotation, and a google search doesn’t provide any guidance as to its ties to racism either. An explanation would be much appreciated.

Media ownership study ordered destroyed
Sept 14, 2006

‘Every last piece’ destroyed

Adam Candeub, now a law professor at Michigan State University, said senior managers at the agency ordered that “every last piece” of the report be destroyed. “The whole project was just stopped – end of discussion,” he said. Candeub was a lawyer in the FCC’s Media Bureau at the time the report was written and communicated frequently with its authors, he said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14836500/

“You can’t tell any more the difference between what’s propaganda and what’s news.”

FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein
15 August, 2006

Thanks so much, pass around the link. Maybe one of the talking heads will actually see it. Some of them might be given pause by it. If one of them took it to heart, it would make a meaningful difference.

“We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when
everything the American public believes is false.”

– William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting, 1981)

What we have here is a GOPer folks.

Palin is a creationist, through and through. A young earther. A Rapture Seeker/End Times pusher.

Uppity when used in context against a black man IS racist. Anyone who doesn’t simply understand that given the history is clearly a GOPer true believer (and a racist).

xxxxx That’s neither sarcastic nor arrogant. Just crude. You didn’t say anything about “without crudeness.”

—ModNote: Personal insults directed at other commenters is prohibited.—

Ludicrous assertion of asking how the term “uppity” is racist? How about honest and straight forward questions for those who claim the term is racist?

I have not asserted any political view here whatsoever, yet feel highly unwelcome in this discussion.

Keep the curve, they’ll strike out every time.

Someone needs to be looking up: Intentional ignorance – in a real dictionary. PWT

When the truth of this ENTIRE CONSPIRACY is finally revealed to the American people, they will be pissed off enough to not only throw the bums out, but to boycott the Mainstream Media that enabled it.

CNN Continues to run banner ads all over the web proclaiming that you can walk “IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BIN LADEN” – a promo for a show that they now run every week.

THIS IS GOVERNMENT SPONSORED PROPAGANDA.

And now this gem from Government Propaganda Network FOX:

Bin Laden’s Former Girlfriend Reveals Shocking Details in New Book

Monday, August 21, 2006
By John Gibson

Bin Laden had the hots for Whitney Houston.

That’s what we’re learning from Kola Boof, the Sudanese poet and novelist whose new book “Diary of a Lost Girl” draws on her experiences as one of bid Laden’s girlfriends. Actually she says she was bin Laden’s sex slave for a while.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,209691,00.html

EARTH TO AMERICA…
IT IS ALL GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA!
THEY STILL WANT YOU TO FEAR A GUY WHO IS DEAD.

For those of you who actually believe that Bin Laden was involved in the 9/11 attacks, the FBI Most Wanted web site disagrees with you, and so does Wikipedia:

“The FBI does not yet have ‘hard evidence’ linking him to the 9/11 attacks and so as of 2006 he has only been indicted on the embassy murders; he is officially still only a suspect in ‘other terrorist attacks throughout the world’.”

http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topt…../laden.htm

To each of you – go ahead, tell me again about the one where Osama Bin Laden attacked America on 9/11.

Anybody?

Have you actually LOOKED at the person in the fake Bin Laden video?

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/osamatape.html

The FBI declines to confirm its authenticity.

BECAUSE IT’S FAKE! BIN LADEN DID NOT ATTACK US ON 9/11.

Bush knows for a fact that Bin Laden is dead. How does it make you feel that the dumbest MF ever to sit in the Oval Office thinks you’re dumber than he is.

We need to take back the airwaves for WE THE PEOPLE. We need to use the ANTI-TRUST LAWS (you remember laws?) to break up the triad of Propaganda networks that have enabled this military coup, and take the money out of the election process and Nationalize the oil industry and recover all of the ill-gotten gains that these criminals have stolen from our Treasury, and bring the damn troops home and cut off Israel from receiving another dime.

Here’s one

Online Etymology Dictionary
1880, from up; originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self-assertive (first recorded use is in “Uncle Remus”). The parallel British variant uppish (1678) originally meant “lavish;” the sense of “conceited, arrogant” being first recorded 1734.

http://www.google.com/search?h…..f&oq=

still not finding out how it’s racist. I’m not a “GOPer”, and yes, I understand it’s 2008. Someone please enlighten me as to the term’s racist connotation and I will move on.

From previous thread, for your enjoyment. This little sticker image was created by someone posting at Americablog: McCain and Palin: A bridge to nowhere

SOCIAL ENGINEERING:

While social engineering can be carried out by any organization – whether large or small, public or private – the most comprehensive (and often the most effective) campaigns of social engineering are those initiated by powerful central governments.

Extremely intensive social engineering campaigns occurred in countries with authoritarian governments. In the 1920s, the revolutionary government of the Soviet Union embarked on a campaign to fundamentally alter the behavior and ideals of Soviet citizens, to replace the old social frameworks of Tsarist Russia with a new Soviet culture, to create the New Soviet man. The Soviets used newspapers, books, film, mass relocations, and even architectural design tactics to serve as “social condenser” and change personal values and private relationships. Similar examples are the Chinese “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution” program and the Khmer Rouge’s plan of deurbanization of Cambodia.

Non-authoritarian regimes tend to rely on more sustained social engineering campaigns that create more gradual, but ultimately as far-reaching, change. Examples include the “War on Drugs” in the United States, the increasing reach of intellectual property rights and copyright, and the promotion of elections as a political tool. The campaign for promoting elections, which is by far the most successful of the three examples, has been in place for over two centuries.

Social theorists of the Frankfurt School in Weimar Germany like Theodor Adorno had also observed the new phenomenon of mass culture and commented on its new manipulative power, when the rise of the Nazis drove them out of the country around 1930 (many of them became connected with the Institute for Social Research in the United States). The Nazis themselves were no strangers to the idea of influencing political attitudes and re-defining personal relationships. The Nazi propaganda machine under Joseph Goebbels was a synchronized, sophisticated and effective tool for creating public opinion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S…..science%29

. I’m sorry. Talkin to the other pups, not you, bio. Consider yourself ignored

A number of techniques which are based on social psychological research are used to generate propaganda. Many of these same techniques can be found under logical fallacies, since propagandists use arguments that, while sometimes convincing, are not necessarily valid. A few examples are: Flag-waving, Glittering generalities, Intentional vagueness, Oversimplification, Rationalization, Red herring, Slogans, Stereotyping, Testimonial, Unstated assumption.

In the West, the term propaganda now overlaps with distinct terms like indoctrination (ideological views established by repetition rather than verification) and mass suggestion (broader strategic methods).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

As the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary noted, fascism is: “A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism.” (The US dictionary definition has gotten somewhat squishier since then, as all the larger dictionary companies have been bought up by multinational corporations.)

Mussolini was quite straightforward about all this. In a 1923 pamphlet titled “The Doctrine of Fascism” he wrote, “If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government.” But not a government of, by, and for We The People – instead, it would be a government of, by, and for the most powerful corporate interests in the nation.

Give it a rest, please.

Not here. You? No tellin’ where it’s goona go. How ’bout it, Jim? Ready?

Courtney Hazlett appologizes to Spike Lee for using the term “uppity”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/…..ly-uppity/

It’s a matter of public record and anyone who’s ever been within a days drive of the mason-dixon line knows it. Anything else is ignorance or artifice and right now, I’d say ignorance is pulling into the lead.

I’m done. I’ll let it go too.

Just one difficult part of media analysis is there’s something about looking out at the big “messengers” that promotes distrust and paranoia even. Many of the talking heads I’m addressing are known to me. Some are friends. Some are former colleagues. They’re just humans caught in culture that’s at a dangerous moment.

I say this in the comments section because I want desperately to awaken them to the dangers here, I want them to see more deeply into contemporary political realities. I’d like them to know that we’re watching. But I don’t see much point in wholesale attacks on the media. That’s what the right wing is doing now. Objectify an “other” as the bad guy, make yourself the victim, blah blah blah.

There are enormous problems of media bias, consolidated corporate ownership, celebrity taking precedence over content, etc. etc. All very real, all bad enough to endanger democracy. All best addressed in direct and responsible ways. Which I hope I’ve done with this letter. I take the role of the media — independent, mainstream, local, state, national, all kinds of media — I take the role very seriously. I don’t want my words to feed a paranoia beast. I want to help fix a problem.

Glenn, you can die happy now: you’ve done your duty and said what must be said, and goddamn eloquently, too. This ought to be broadcast everywhere. I hope you live forever, of course, but even if you don’t, you’ve left the world a better place for having posted this. Thanks, bro’. Thank you very much.

They’re talking about it heading into the Gulf. That puts all us west coasters at risk. Ready as I can be.

Ready for Ike?

What’s that line for prostate patients? Watchful waiting? Yeah, that’s it. Right now it should be too far south to affect my area, but I check at each update.

I’d say it’s baiting, looking for attention.

Hale fellow, well met!

Thanks for the response, and excuse my ignorance.

I’ve never been so attacked for asking an honest question, of which I did my own research before asking such question.

I am offended by your statement “It’s a matter of public record and anyone who’s ever been within a days drive of the mason-dixon line knows it.”. My apologies for not visiting the south more often.

So much for questioning a blogger’s opinion on a “discussion” board. I should have just given high fives and waved my pom poms instead.

I’ve watched the microcosm of the macrocosm you describe play itself out in the person of Chris Mathews of late. On the one hand, he will be overly emotional as to the circumstances the political candidates address and, when he agrees with my ideas, I see him as rational and clear thinking about the real problems facing our society.

Then, in a massive wave of myopia, he will say, “It’s all about Palin vs. Obama, now.” And I’m screaming at the TV again, “Nothing could possibly be more damaging to the truth or the debate this country needs to have!”

There are enormous problems of media bias, consolidated corporate ownership, celebrity taking precedence over content, etc. etc. All very real, all bad enough to endanger democracy. All best addressed in direct and responsible ways.

The highlighted part is the rub, isn’t it? How do we get a corporate controlled media to report the news as news vice airing infotainment? With the ideology of the media owners how does one buck that culture and remain within it? Even before the huge media mergers the corporate owners had figured out that infotainment was more profitable than news.

Everybody needs love, man! I’m just not a lovely sort of dude.

Well, thank you for your very kind words. I hope others find this as helpful as you have. Please, send the link around to your friends. I don’t care if it has my name on it — just get the urgency and the danger of this situation understood by as many people as possible. And, really, thanks, thanks so much for your complements.

“It’s now clear that John McCain and Sarah Palin plan to run a deeply divisive, angry, racist, know-nothing campaign”

So, is Lynn Westmoreland planning the McCain/Palin campaign?

Damned hard to do. What do I think the keys are? Persistence. Believe it or not, humility and utter lack of sanctimony. We have to be who we want them to be. That means thorough, responsible, trustworthy, searching, and, once again, persistent. Also, alert.

Glenn – that’s a very special piece of writing and beautifully said. Thanks you for the thought-provoking post. Hope the pundits read it.

The problem is capitalism. It is systemic and it will not disappear by itself. An outfit like Clear Channel owns about 1200 stations; then there’s Fox and Murdoch. Even an organization like the NY Times who we can give the benefit of the doubt for trying to be fair, has stations that require government licensing. People who work for these organizations can be the most progressive people in the world, but they will stiffle their impulses in favor of keeping their jobs. It may be possible to turn the Internet into an alternative to MSM, but that’s not happening yet. It’s a bunch of people, myself included, who preach to the choir.

Yes, and part of what happens is the must convince themselves that while what they do is of historic importance, it’s all really a game that’s beyond their influence. Fatalism, really, and that lets them suspend their judgment, assuming, of course, they are using judgment to begin with.

Feeding the denizens of the under-the-bridge set is just a self-defeating excercise.

The only biodiesel this troll gets is from the fat between his ears.

I’d answer the fool but might be construed as an effete, elite, liberal Murka-hater. 8-)

Try Sarah Palin’s speech

Which part of the speech?

The world needs more lerts, to be sure.

My concern of late is the absolute lack of reporting given to the abusive tactics employed by the St. Paul police force at the RNC.

Thanks to I-Witness video and theUptake.org, some of that will come out. But we can’t all be those brave souls in the street (although I feel guilty that I should have been). And, it has been shown that the power can be used to illegally shut those avenues down with unlawful detention.

How to combat that in your larger media experience?

assuming, of course, they are using judgment to begin with.

Well, you’ve hit another touch point. To be sure. Thank you Doctor Brazelton ;-)

What’s funny is I agree with Glenn’s entire article, other than the points about know-nothing-ness and racism. However, continue to be personally attacked when attempting to discuss those points which I have yet to agree on.

Change in the corporate media will have to come from the top, unfortunately. A correspondent for CBS, for example, will have little or no success having his/her story aired if the politics of the story don’t reinforce those of Sumner Redstone. Do we hear of the actions of the Israeli’s in any context other than that of “protecting themselves against terrorists?”

Twain, thanks so much.

Ooops, way late in going back to work. Later.

Namaste

ABC’s “the money trail” was the only interesting investigative piece I’ve seen from the MSM during this convention season.

You’re approaching this from the point of view of detached professionalism, as if the media were an independent, ethical body that simply needs to be reminded of its professional ethos and return to its roots.

The fact is, the media is owned by the same corporations that own Congress through K Street. The media is the communications division of the corporations that own and run our nation.

Expecting impartial professionalism from the media is exactly as absurd as expecting Macy’s to tell you about good toy prices at Gimbal’s.

The corporate Right has the goal of a permanent Republican stranglehold on the workings of government. The media will support the McCain campaign as best it can while maintaining a facade of professional detachment in order to avoid the public noticing their collusion. But they don’t have to try very hard, as the public has a vested interest in denying any frightening reality about our nation’s slide into fascism.

To fix the problem we as citizens must take back control of Congress through grassroots efforts to elect Congresspeople committed to campaign finance reform. Only by excising corporate influence over Congress can we begin to get our government back. If we don’t do this, American democracy is already dead.

Easy enough. When I was a kid in Charlotte, N.C., in the 1960s and early 1970s, integrating the school system was a huge controversy. A case from Charlotte, on whether government had the right to integrate schools by busing, went to the Supreme Court. During that controversy in particular, you didn’t have far to go to find white people using the word “uppity,” frequently followed by the plural form of the n-word. Perhaps you’ve led a sheltered life — perhaps; I actually think you’re trolling — but at least in the South and at least at the time, the phrase was certainly not hard to find. And every time I see the word “uppity” — which blessedly, is quite seldom these days — that’s what I think about. And for good AND ill, I’m not alone.

Thank you for sharing your experience and broadening my understanding.

Or “perhaps” I immigrated to the United States, and have yet to be exposed to situations such as you described. If that is considered “sheltered”, then so be it.

Glenn,
If I could give awards, you would receive my highest for this post. You said, with far more eloquence, exactly what I have tried, with veins popping from my neck, tried to express in my living room as “journalists” pointed out the most Macciavellian tactics and said, “So”, or reported tip-toed around them, sounding like Iago. I’ve wondered if reporters in the Weimar Republic, or the Kerensky Government, were so disinterested.

As I perceive the term uppity it implies from a lower place to a higher place. Where is the lower place and where is the higher place to which the person is assuming to place themselves. Is the person that is using the term assuming to be in that higher place or that the uppity person doesn’t qualify for that higher place. Why doesn’t the person belong in that higher place.

I hope this helps Glen. The Emporia Gazette with William L. White as editor was the local media. Much of what made William A. White and his paper famous was carried on by his son. Both were strong Republicans but neither allowed their political leanings to interfere with the reporting of news, their opinions were strictly kept to the opinion columns, clearly delineated. For all the years I read the paper, no news favorable or unfavorable was ever withheld from the readers. The integrity of the news was never compromised by political persuasion. That integrity lead to trust by the readership. It is integrity that has gone missing from the present media. Many times it is the format requirements that act to curtail reportage, either time or space is not allowed that would be necessary for reporting complete, researched stories and the reporting of history, background, and pertinent consequences. When the purpose of news is changed from purely reporting to infotainment to fill the public with ersatz news, propaganda, gossip, and titillation, in order to pass low bar requirements for public service, what is seen is what happens.

I was fortunate to have a wide variety of news sources that presently I could recommend (always with a caution) that may differ in details, generally coincide with the facts. These presently are: BBC, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Times(online), and The Independent. All are on line for the major news and they vary in regard to other news reporting. The dead tree editions would be the preference (best news is always buried on the inside). Between these are some of the worlds best investigative reporters and writers if you know who to look for.

Will this help?

Anyone who has spent 15 minutes on the street knows what the fuck uppity means. What bullshit, like a damn English class in here.

LOL

So is Lynn running the campaign then? I can’t find the article for that, since the “uppity” comment is what makes the McCain campaign racist..

Thank you. Last night I heard Chuck Todd [whom I usually respect] talking about what an “exciting game” this was going to be. I wanted to bash him. [Sorry Mods; only figuratively.]

This is NOT a game. It is life and death for all of us.

Raven, this person is a troll. He/she has been repeating this same tripe on a number of FDL threads.

The media’s job is to ensure the election can be completed on personality/theme and no policy is discussed. That is a coup.

Barack Obama, as an Hawaiian of some Kenyan parentage, embodies the vision of this year’s campaign of huge change.

I thought McCain was a typical Republican, but after thinking about what he is I’ve come to the conclusion he’s a much bigger empty suit than I ever imagined Obama to be. He’s a narcissus pure and simple and he allows users and leeches to surround him and abuse the power of his office. We can’t allow them the power of the presidency.

Obama is for a massive change in how we get and use energy.
Obama is for big changes in world trade to protect workers and the environment.
Obama is for a (potentially huge) change in the health care system to protect our economy and everyone’s health.
Obama is for a (possibly big) change in the tax system to make it more fair and effective.

His person, his policies, his post-partisan campaign and even his wide range of supporters screams CHANGE.

McCain is just more of the same cheap Republicanism wrapped in the flag.

Which part of the [Palin] speech?

the verbs! heh

Here, here to W.A. White. I read many of the same news sources you recommend, and thanks for passing them along here. Of course, it helps! No need to ask. Be sure and recommend these and other alternatives to your friends.

Crosstimbers, feel free to steal whatever language you’d like and say it loud and often to as many people as you can. Your compliment, and those of others on this thread, mean much to me. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to let me know your thoughts.

Bravo Glenn!