Political Theatre category archive
Both Sides Not 0
Dick Polman calls out corporate media’s false equivalences. The gist:
Facts Are What People Think 0
Writing at my local rag, Joshua Zingler suggests that Donald Trump is a symptom of stupid. A nugget:
Beliefs are not all unique and equal snowflakes; some of them are just totally unfounded.
Forty-three percent of Republicans and 60 percent of Trump supporters believe Barack Obama is a Muslim. Sixty-one percent of Trump supporters think Obama was not born in the United States. Neither is true.
These types of views are not endemic to Obama. Only 35 percent of Trump supporters are worried about the consequences of global warming. A full 25 percent of Republicans (and 15 percent of Democrats) indicated that they were more likely to not vaccinate their children than to vaccinate them.
The consequences for governance from such mistakes are profound. Unfounded opinions get represented like all the others.
“Paranoia Strikes Deep” 0
Shorter Lewis Beale (something I’ve said myself on several occasions): Richard Hofstadter was right.
Picklegate 0
This one’s a dilly. Jimmy Kimmel slices to the root clausens. You might say he knows the sour, as he’s climbed the Mt. Olive. His response is vlassic.
Watch him gherkin Alex Jones around.
Elsewhere, Bob and Chez earn their bread and butter.
Video via Raw Story.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Shorter Dick Polman: The corporate media will go absurd lengths to maintain its pretense that “both sides.”
Also, too.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Thom looks at the coverage of the Presidential campaign in the era of our “Duck Dynasty” and “Naked and Afraid” media and is less than sanguine.
Hiding in Plain Sight 0
One of the screwier trends to emerge from Europe lately has been efforts to ban burqas and “burquinis” (and this is the United States of America–we know something about screwy); one column I saw somewhere in a US paper I forget where about Nice’s recent banning of the burquini was headlined something like “Leave It to the French To Outlaw Modesty.”
Der Spiegel attempts to understand the movement in Europe, and particularly in Germany, to “ban the burqa.” It concludes that the movement has little to do with religion and everything to do with domestic politics and attempts to co-opt the European far right. Here’s an excerpt, but I urge you to follow the link and read it in its entirety.
