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Well, I finally figured out what to do with all my old PCs and laptops: cobble them together into a homemade supercomputer that converts news and opinion into right-wing headlines!
For today’s initial shakedown run, I fed the RWHG 999000 a variety of recent stories and blog posts, then generated output in all three formats: Newspaper/Tabloid, Blog, and Sarah Palin Facebook Post. Sample results are below – just click on the headlines to view the original source material.
Hero cop stands up to activist judge
NYPD taking no chances with OWS cyberterror threat
Time-traveling Occupy Portland protesters aiding and abetting rapists
Hero judge recognizes food stamp fraud most serious threat to US economy
Lamestream media doesn’t understand that real men don’t need an hour to explain themselves
Conservative community wary of unserious, self-promoting egomaniacs
Americans finally get serious about retirement planning
Study shows that the 1% raise exceptional, successful children
Study shows that Rick Perry has exceptional, successful buddies
Activist judges refuse to recognize AZ GOP’s constitutional right to favorable redistricting
GOP prez candidates all strong, savvy on foreign policy and national security
Millionaire liberal elitist class traitors demand destruction of economy
Blue Texan leaves prominent liberal blog, will now report to Soros directly
Technology is awesome.
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Eli!
Buzz!
Is “G” for generator?
OOPs!
Too many Martinis…sorry
HEY, ELI. The GOP candidates are not savvy on anything. Sound like idiots. And Perry is exceptional – just not the way he thinks he is.
HEY, TWAIN.
They’re right-wing headlines, that’s the whole idea.
Did somebody say martoony? Good idea ..
Hey, BT, when you see Soros tell him I still haven’t seen the damn check.
Tee many put me to sleep. :)
Rachel Maddow Continues to Promote Gingrich Presidential Candidacy
Eli!
Awesome, dood!
Best wishes to Blue Texan. I’ll miss his snark.
Oh, gawd. Please.
But I bet you’re fun through the first few!
Funny D! Thanks!
I’ll miss him too.
Damn, Eli, I checked that Reuters article about retirement twice to make sure it wasn’t an Onion parody.
Of course. Aren’t we all? And then – lights out.
Nailed it, mon. You could write for The Onion.
Then again, these days it seems to write itself.
Nah, trying to stay ahead of teh crazy would just get exhausting.
Moo tee – which is why my drankin is pretty much in the virtual realm
Meanwhile, I’m trying to think of a clever addition to Eli’s list .. damn, it’s hard to satirize ridiculousness ..
Hear hear, well spoken, Bruce!
OT, but…another idiot gets the treatment.
ELI!
How typical! Like their ideology, Republican technology is hopelessly obsolete.
MARGARET!
That pic atop your post is great, Eli. I used to go in to my dad’s office in the early 1960s, in NYC, and play chess vs students at Stanford on a terminal like that, using the old Arpanet.
Cool! What kind of bandwidth did it have?
eli!
suz!
I can’t believe Blue Texan is leaving! Can I have his stapler?
You Lie !Eli !Petro !
Your NeoCons are entertaining, ours just behave like Napoleon …
How are they going to spin this?
That machine looks like one of those first generation, state of the art “computers” from the 1950s. Are those rows of lights which flash on and off so you know it’s plugged in? — can’t glean any info from the lights, though, except that the owner has money.
The right wing has no exclusive concession on spin however often we see it. It’s not even limited to politics in general.
I think the pols and agenda drivers learned this art from the corp world’s marketers who try to sell us geegaws which include preplanned obsolescence so we’d have to buy more. The marketers, in turn, had long noticed the declining attention span and increasing vulnerability of the public, and tailored the message accordingly. Then both positive and negative ideological messages have no choice other than to tap into shock value and spin; otherwise, they wouldn’t be heard (not an option, there).
The spin is not limited to headlines. It begins there, and is salted throughout a piece or even an entire website or newspaper, etc. What’s reported, what’s not, the order of presentation of components, sly use of pejorative modifiers implied as fact rather than opinion. . .there’s a long list.
What’s left unreported (ie., proactively ignored) may be most important aspect in the trickery. One should never rely on a single news source.