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Turn people against the media......and look who's doing it best, SaraPalin.
And:Blaming Couric or any other interviewer for her own mistakes. Is THAT accepting PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY LIKE repugs scream EVERYONE ELSE should do????? Why doesn't a repugs ever answer that question?
I couldn't agree with you more!
When you analyze this, under its ugly surface, you can almost believe the McCain set the stage well for this 'Blame the Media' stance! Now all they have to do is keep repeating this same, divisive message to their ardent followers who now fervantly believe the entire media is against *their* candidates!
A form of Fascism - Yes! When citizens start denouncing and threatening a FREE press, we're in big trouble.
I don't think that Palin, for one, understands how much power she has over the base. She's playing with fire and has no idea how to moderate it. I wonder if after the event she went backstage and said "Hokey Pete!! Someone yelled to KILL Obama!"
To a person who truly believes in freedom, a free press is your friend, and about the only thing that stands between freedom and tyranny.
I have to wonder how people will behave once the election is over.
That will largely be up to Obama, that will be just one of his challenges. Certainly some of the race/cultural warriors would rather go down like some crazed Kamikazi pilot but if, and I say if, Obama rises to our expectations I think it his Presidency could be a redefining moment in American history.
A few months ago while listening to NPR, a middle aged white man spoke about his self-discovering his own racism while watch Obama. He stated that for a long time he couldn't understand why he disliked Obama so, until he realized that it was about Obama's race. Before that moment of realization, he went on to state, he could not see a black man as being smart, capable and articulate.
Obama, if he does as we expect him to do, will change the minds and attitudes of millions of white Americans who for the first time will get to actually see a successful black man in another venue than a sports arena or a movie.
This at the same speech in Florida where someone in the crowd yelled "Kill him!" about Obama.
Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."
I don't think that Palin, for one, understands how much power she has over the base. She's playing with fire and has no idea how to moderate it. I wonder if after the event she went backstage and said "Hokey Pete!! Someone yelled to KILL Obama!"
To a person who truly believes in freedom, a free press is your friend, and about the only thing that stands between freedom and tyranny.
She knows exactly what she is doing and doing exactly what they want and unleashing the issues and emotions they want.
That will largely be up to Obama, that will be just one of his challenges. Certainly some of the race/cultural warriors would rather go down like some crazed Kamikazi pilot but if, and I say if, Obama rises to our expectations I think it his Presidency could be a redefining moment in American history.
A few months ago while listening to NPR, a middle aged white man spoke about his self-discovering his own racism while watch Obama. He stated that for a long time he couldn't understand why he disliked Obama so, until he realized that it was about Obama's race. Before that moment of realization, he went on to state, he could not see a black man as being smart, capable and articulate.
Obama, if he does as we expect him to do, will change the minds and attitudes of millions of white Americans who for the first time will get to actually see a successful black man in another venue than a sports arena or a movie.
Its the others we have to wonder about. Their are White Supremacist groups that want him to win so it will trigger their race war.
The right wing Christian base, not just any base. I prefer my left leaning Catholicism, thanks. I adore the free press and I adore freedom of expression because it allows you to know the what people are really about. Old Irish saying, Lord turn the hearts of my enemies, and if You can't do that, at least turn their ankles so I will know them by their limp. Seems God does work in mysterious ways.
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