Fox News host Chris Wallace took acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to task on Sunday over President Donald Trump’s tweets accusing Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) of letting his majority black district in Baltimore become a “rat infested mess.”
Right on cue, TPM has to give us our daily tRump TV/Faux News update…or, as I like to call it, News You Can’t Use.
Racism is the full-fledge 2020 GOP platform, and t rumpp is the end-all/be-all of the GOP. Those GOPers with some remnants of dignity will not admit that, but neither will they deny that, or dare denounce it. Most GOPers, however, say “Bring it on! Let the ethnic cleansing commence!”
Clearly much more important than any of the other options of the day…
IMO, it’s past high time that any real journalists at FuxSnooze announce their resignations due to the virtually unending propaganda emanating from Murdoch mierde, i mean, media.
The future of what’s left of this republic depends on breaking down the “conservative entertainment complex”.
Yep. Where would we be without tRump propaganda TV being propagated on every legitimate news outlet just to fill fucking space?
Meanwhile, Mulvaney has two fucking jobs for which he does neither of them very well if at all, and gets paid twice for doing absolutely nothing other than stepping into the breach now and again to stroke tRump’s flimsy weak-ass ego on TV, again for an audience of one. He’s the go-to guy these days I guess. Does nothing worthwhile, says nothing worthwhile, gets paid to do both.
Propaganda is the blood of Fox State News. Murdoch is the heart of that body, pumping out 63 million gullible idiots to sabotage America, one election at a time.
“‘Infested,’” Wallace quoted. “It sounds like vermin. It sounds subhuman and these are all six members of congress who are people of color.”
There are serious historical connotations associated with the word “infested”, when applied to humans. Trump may not be fully aware, but no doubt Steven Miller is. Wallace and others are quite right in raising strong objections to this demagogic language.
Everybody reads between the lines. That’s how you extract meaning from the printed word and relate it to the world. Only a propagandist would advise people not to read between the lines. Only Pavlovian dummies like Trump, Mulvaney, et al, don’t think beyond the literal word. When you don’t read between the lines, all you see is white space, which is all that crowd want their ilk to see.
This article brought to mind a blog post I read recently titled [“10 Signs You’re a Racist”] He concluded by saying (point 11) that “If you don’t think that the President is a racist, you definitely are”.
Mulvaney is in this camp.
(https://thecreative.cafe/10-signs-youre-a-racist-4cd737d471fc)
Some of the poorest, crime-ridden counties in the country are all located in Kentucky. I wonder why he doesn’t call them infested with crime, vermin, disease, and illteracy? Hmmm. What could be the difference?
Was Wallace encouraging more, or less, racists Tweets?
Right, it’s FUX, I just answered my own question.
Never mind…
Actually, if you google the phrase “moron hat” some interesting links pop up. This could be an interesting meme.
I don’t know, srfromgr. Chris Wallace is respected and he seems like the canary in the coal mine.
Shithead’s gonna be surprised next year that his cult of lemmings is far smaller than he thinks believes it to be.
If, that is, we all get out and vote and ignore the trolls here and elsewhere trying to turn us all against each other.
I didn’t watch any of the Sunday morning blabfests but did any of them mention our upcoming elections being so nicely exposed to outside foreign interferences? Or did they discuss how Moscow’s Mitch managed to block any and all bipartisan legislation this week following the Mueller hearing? If not, why the fuck not? That would be journalistic malpractice not to do so, don’t ya think?
The grass is always greener on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
Do not forget or underestimate Sinclair.
Chris Wallace played along for as long as he could. So no, no props from me now that he’s come around. He helped build the Frankenstein we have now. He fed and encouraged it for years, with some of the worst actors that came from the conservative base and rightwing fringes. So Fuck him. If he’s so big at Faux he needs to wield more influence across the entire company to rein in their bullshit. No excuse for one or two “legitimate” anchors they try to push forward onto the public to give themselves some kind of bipartisan buy-in or imprimatur of credibility.
The entire Faux news operation is a menace to civil society in the public interest. The model of infotainment and conspiracy mongering lives and breathes at the heart and soul and base of their entire news operation. In a fair and decent civil society, that had journalistic standards in place, and those that like to call themselves a legitimate news outlet with a straight face, they would have been put on notice a long fucking time ago by the FCC or some other less than toothless body or agency regulating their nonsense…but we don’t have that anymore…and we probably never will thanks to their bastardizing and polluting the entire news universe with their for-profit propaganda dreck.
