re: #426 Renaissance_Man

That’s just it though - there is a primal response, but it’s pretty much entirely manufactured.

How many Americans would have even heard of Park51 without a media intent on creating an emotional issue out of it? Even if a few angry nutjob bloggers had made a stink, the President never would have had to come out and make a statement without the issue being created by an adversarial media intent on manufacturing controversy to pander to the idiotic fears of an audience desperate for anything to feed their prejudices that all Democrats/liberals/foreigners are evil. And now it is a political issue that has many people angry and many others, even on this blog, gleefully expecting that regardless of the justice or morality of the issue, at least the Democrats will look bad, because that’s all that matters.

Good thing the media is so liberal.

I agree it’s manufactured, there’s the lobbyists manipulating it, and then there’s the primal fear which is the engine of it.

I wonder if there’s ever going to be a time when othering minorities and inciting hatred doesn’t work on Republican voters.