All the News that Fits 0
Aside:
At the end of the piece, the columnist, Bill Goodykoontz, seems to imply that Fox News is “reputable media outfit.”
It isn’t. It never has been. Indeed, it has never tried to be.
It’s always been nothing more than Roger Ailes’s dream of “Republican TV.”
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Thus passeth another day in NRA Paradise.
“I realized it was a gunshot, and we saw my dog run down the hill,” Masson said. “He only made it 10 – 15 feet down the hill before he laid down.”
Masson looked up the hill to see who was responsible for firing the weapon and injuring the dog, named Lucky.
“That’s when I noticed two individuals walking over and kind of looking directly at him and watching him kind of lay down,” he said. “And then they turned around and walked away.”
“The New South” 0
When I was in grad school for history, I wanted to concentrate on the ante bellum South.
I had several reasons for this, including an interest in the causes of the Civil War; the disconnect between history that happened and the “Virginia Cavalier” mythology I was taught in my all-white Jim Crow elementary school; a Virginia heritage that dates to the 1600s; and an ancestry that includes slaveholders, Confederate officers, and proponents of slavery.
In our first meeting, my faculty advisor, whose interest was “the New South,” asked me why I was interested in a society that was–I can still see him say it–“gone with the wind”
But, as we see every day, it was not gone with the wind.
It has not even gone.
And, ironically, that novel to which said adviser so sarcastically alluded was without question one of the most poisonous and effective works of political and social propaganda ever propagated.
All Tuckered Out 0
David looks at the exodus of advertisers from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and explains how, despite the plaints of the Trumpettes, it has nothing whatsoever to do with the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Misdirection Play, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Claire Jack suggests that many tactics we see in our political you-can-hardly-call-it discourse are “emotional and manipulative tactics” that amount to gaslighting on a societal level. An excerpt, referring to the current reaction to the police murder of George Floyd (emphasis; follow the link for the rest.
By the way, the last sentence above captures succinctly why those monuments were erected in the first place.
The Independent Variable 0
My local rag investigates why some protests turn violent and others do not.
Their findings may surprise you.
All the News that Fits 0
Fox News photo fraud gets found out.