Comments on: Fools’ Rushin’ http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Wed, 08 May 2013 02:53:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paul Magill Smith http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/#comment-40594 Paul Magill Smith Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:32:44 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7075#comment-40594 Thanks, Mike, but I’m surprised I saw no mention of MSNBC in your article. The triple threat of Matthews (sometimes asking tough questions), Olberman (offering ‘special comments’ most Americans should be very familiar with, but sadly are not), and Maddow’s delightful sarcasm are the ‘balance’ we need.

We should not be so foolish as believe the primary focus of massively consolidated news (?) sources give a rat’s ass about anything other than their bottom line. They are reeds blowing in the direction of whatever fair wind blows money their way. Rather than truthfully inform us their mission is to sell to us, and it is obvious they will also distract us in any way possible whenever vital & meaningful issues conflict with their financial interests. Your statement, “… the liberal media is only as liberal as their conservative owners allow them to be.” speaks truth in volumes.

Whenever we see insignificant ‘fluff’ pushed by the MSM we should remember the essence of Jefferson’s, “The price of liberty is constant vigilance”, and be tuned into Congressional hearings on C-SPAN 1, 2, & 3

]]> By: Beverly http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/#comment-40493 Beverly Sun, 08 Mar 2009 18:36:33 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7075#comment-40493 Don’t waste your hearing, your eyesight, or your time Mr. Weisser. Stop watching CNN.

An electronic high five to Mulga Mumblebrain’s comments.

]]> By: mikel weisser http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/#comment-40258 mikel weisser Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:52:14 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7075#comment-40258 Another poster commented further on Limbaugh by email and here is his slightly redacted post and my reply:

HIM: It speaks volumes that the defacto King of the Republicans is a drug-addled hate/warmonger albeit with a following of millions of ditto/s***heads. So much hate! So little imagination! What a nation!

ME: I only wish that others would make more of the man’s failings. The debate can’t seem to get shaped around him and what he stands for. Tonight the word on TV is that he is inviting Obama on his radio show. I wish Obama would go and face Limbaugh. Like Bill O’Reilly, Limbaugh depends on the tact of aggression to gain his points. That doesn’t look so good when one aggresses on the prez, especially when we are talking about a president who’s made it one of his tools to be even handed and not aggressive. Limbaugh may think he could definitely do some damage at this point, but mostly it would be to himself and his party.

]]> By: mikel weisser http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/#comment-40250 mikel weisser Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:43:42 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7075#comment-40250 Thanks for the comments. Yes. Please note, my passage more accurately reads “from appearing to be the great force for good ,” the words “appearing to be” being the operant term here. Though a fat white guy who has definitely benefitted frommy time and place of birth, from my view there has been a steady oppression/aggression since the USA started keeping America free.
-yzur

]]> By: John S. Hatch http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/#comment-40247 John S. Hatch Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:17:09 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7075#comment-40247 It speaks volumes that the defacto King of the Republicans is a drug-addled hate/warmonger albeit with a following of millions of ditto/shitheads. So much hate! So little imagination! What a nation!

]]> By: Mulga Mumblebrain http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/#comment-40245 Mulga Mumblebrain Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:53:58 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7075#comment-40245 CNN is garbage, as is the BBC, FoxNews, Deutsche Welle, Radio Netherlands. the (Australian)ABC and News Ltd. They are all Rightwing indoctrinators, nothing more or less. Their functionaries are, in my opinion, almost exclusively either evil psychopaths, or cynical opportunists, or mere sell-outs. Who the expletive needs them? May they all rot in Hell, the one certain reason for belief in a just and wrathful Deity. And, please, whenever was the USA a ‘..great force for good in the world’? Not during the most recent couple of centuries, I would contend.

]]> By: HR http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/03/fools%e2%80%99-rushin%e2%80%99/#comment-40221 HR Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:33:19 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/?p=7075#comment-40221 Mike, you must be a very calm and tolerant person. CNN has made me scream at the screen since the early 90s, starting with all their sickening graphics and over-the-top coverage of “our” war against Iraq to reinstall the dictatorial regime in Kuwait (which was part of Iraq until the former Brit “owners” decided otherwise). I can’t watch for more than a couple of minutes before the reaction sets in.

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