Somebody Call the Wambulance: A Tale of Conservative Media Persecution
The Media Research Center tries to be the conservative equivalent of Media Matters. Unfortunately, any organization run by a living, breathing caricature like Brent Bozell will be generally unsuccessful in all of its endeavors, and this lame attempt at a media watchdog is no exception. Surprisingly, this latest piece of nonsense comes not from Good Captain Redbeard, but from one of his lackeys, Dan Gainor. You may remember Gainor as the guy who offered $100 to any member of Congress who punched Florida Congressman Alan Grayson in the face. Classy guy, and one totally qualified to lecture others about their “vile” rhetoric. Let’s dive right into teh stoopid:
Media: Conservatives ‘Crazy,’ ‘Stupid,’ ‘Racist’ and ‘Evil’
Journalists help left attack right-wing politicians in most despicable ways.Conservatives are crazy. Sometimes they’re stupid, racist or even evil. On creative occasions they’re all four - at least that’s how they’re portrayed by the American media.
That evil, left wing media. Does their hatred for real ‘Merkin (non-union) working folks know no bounds?
This election season, journalists have partnered fully with the left to depict conservatives in the most vile ways they can muster. While it’s nothing new, the sheer volume of attacks is noteworthy. What’s worse is that many are coming from supposedly legitimate news operations.
Even though wingnuts have been trotting this pathetic meme out for decades, this time it’s REAL!!!
Every national conservative politician battles these media characterizations.
Careful with that language, Sparky. We all saw how your right wing cohorts were worked into a panic by Jimmy Hoffa Jr.’s call for an army of pro-labor voters. War imagery has no place in political discourse!
Ronald Reagan was crazy or stupid, depending on the lefty arguing it or the phases of the moon. Nancy was allegedly the power behind the throne, so she was crazy and evil. President George Bush once ran the CIA - evil. His son, President George W. Bush, managed to be crazy, stupid and evil. (Lefties liked to depict him in Nazi regalia or as a chimp, or both. Conservatives who use identical phrasing or images for Obama are, of course, category four - racists.)
Wait, can we go back to that last part?
Lefties liked to depict him in Nazi regalia or as a chimp, or both. Conservatives who use identical phrasing or images for Obama are, of course, category four - racists.
Again?
Lefties liked to depict him in Nazi regalia or as a chimp, or both. Conservatives who use identical phrasing or images for Obama are, of course, category four - racists.
One more time.
Lefties liked to depict him in Nazi regalia or as a chimp, or both. Conservatives who use identical phrasing or images for Obama are, of course, category four - racists.
Trolling? Stupid? The world may never know.
Vice President Dick Cheney got the Nancy Reagan treatment - crazy and evil.
That poor, misunderstood hero. He’s like Batman, if Batman were a war criminal and draft-dodger.
It’s almost a party game to list the top conservatives and describe how the media and left are depicting them. But it’s no game to candidates. Prominent media outlets are trying to sabotage every viable conservative opponent to Obama.
Cry me a fucking river. If these candidates don’t want their positions scrutinized, they shouldn’t run for the highest office in the land.
Rep. Michele Bachman, R-Wis., is called crazy for her gas price predictions or for just being her. Newsweek’s Aug. 15 cover story on Bachmann was called “The Queen of Rage,” complete with a cover photo of a crazy-eyed candidate.
“Crazy-eyed candidate.” Those are your words. I can’t decide whether this is a ridiculous straw man or a classic case of shooting oneself in the foot.
“In Iowa, where she was raised, Bachmann has become the living embodiment of the Tea Party. She and her allies have been called a maniacal gang of knife-wielding ideologues. That’s hyperbole, of course,” wrote Lois Romano. When reporters write something that vile and follow it with “that’s hyperbole,” what they really mean is “no, it’s not.”
From dictionary.com:
hy·per·bo·le [hahy-pur-buh-lee]
noun Rhetoric .
1.
obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2.
an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as ‘to wait an eternity.’
I know education is for dirty liberal elitists, but it may not have been wise for an aspiring writer to sleep through high school English class.
Then there’s ESPN’s LZ Granderson, also a CNN contributor, who called Bachmann “crazy.” Granderson said that “the people aren’t going to vote for crazy. And she [Bachmann] still registers as crazy with a lot of independents.” But those attacks were repurposing the lefty theme that has been around for years. Crazy Mother Jones magazine called her “Bachmann (R-Crazy)” in a 2008 headline.
So you’re saying an openly gay sportswriter and two unabashedly liberal publications dared question a Republican presidential candidate’s bigoted views on homosexuality? I smell a media conspiracy of epic proportions!
Then there’s stupid, a subject the old school media know all too well. Politico, the lefty publication that caters to Washington insiders, ran an Aug. 29 cover story with the headline: “Is Rick Perry dumb?” This sterling bit of journalism began with the premise that Perry is “confronting an unavoidable question: is he dumb - or just misunderestimated?” (That last bit is a dig at Bush the Younger, of course.)
You forgot to mention that Obama thinks there are 57 states.
This theme has been everywhere for years, enshrined even in T-shirt form as a red-white-and-blue elephant with the slogan: “Never Underestimate the Power of Stupid People in Large Numbers.”
Have these shirts been produced and sold by the ill-defined “media”? If not, this is a total non-sequitur.
Tune into MSNBC’s “Morning Joke,” er “Joe,”
Tumbleweed.
and there’s co-host Mika Brzezinski bashing the right for not hiking taxes in the debt limit negotiations. “I think the Republicans look stupid and mean. I’m sorry, this is stupid.” Mika is on MSNBC and she thinks someone else is stupid? It’s a common theme over at the Mouseketeer Network, conservatives are stupid. “Sarah Palin Has Proven Herself To Be Profoundly Stupid,” whined “Hardball” host Chris Matthews.
You left out that the titular Joe Scarborough of “Morning Joe” is a former Republican congressman. You also fail Irony 101 for making fun of someone else’s alleged whining.
If it’s evil you want, Matthews throws that term around like beads at Mardi Gras. Let’s see: Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are evil: “These people are evil in what they’re doing.” All because he thinks they’re wrong about climate change. Then Matthews bashed former Speaker Newt Gingrich as “evil” and looking “like the devil.”
What a mean, nasty thing to say about two men who have always engaged in only the most civil of discourse.
From newser:
Obama’s base “is made up of people even more vile than he is,” Limbaugh barked. “You’ve got a lot of walking human debris on the Democrat base side.” But even lefty debris, apparently, can get angry, and the garbage is sick and tired of their man in the White House, snorts Rush.
“That bunch of people, those savages that make up the Obama base, are fit to be tied,” he said. That’s why the prez came up with a budget plan to win them back. “He had to get them back, and the one way to do it was to go out and savage us,” explained Limbaugh. “That’s what they love. That’s what they get off on. That’s their orgasm. ‘Cause these people can’t find willing mates. So their orgasm is to really take it to us.”
And Beck? Totally not a race-baiting douchebag.
Beck exclaimed that Obama has “over and over again” exposed himself as “a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don’t know what it is…”
When Fox’s Brian Kilmeadeon pointed out that many people in Obama’s administration are white, so “you can’t say he doesn’t like white people,” Beck pressed on. “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem,” Beck said. “This guy is, I believe, a racist.”
Clearly, just two more conservative victims of vicious, left wing smear campaigns.
The media pile on Perry as the front runner. ABC Jim Avila called out conservative Texans as evil, even if you didn’t quite use the word. “Some argue that, deep in the heart of Rick Perry’s Texas, there is little heart.” “Some.” That’s another journalist weasel word, allowing Avila to say what he actually feels without owning up. It’s the same theme over on the left, typically blasting the Koch brothers with the term. A 2010 Gawker headline explained it only a bit tongue-in-cheek: “Republican Billionaires Arrange Secret Meeting to Plot Evil.”
On an unrelated note, there is a huge “STOP GEORGE SOROS!!!” ad right next to this article. Just found that interesting.
Those attacks are awful, but the scarlet letter attack in today’s world earns the “R” for racism. Matthews is good at that one too, saying Perry “could be Bull Connor with a smile.” Matthews gave the Bull Connor comparison to Perry twice. (Connor was a civil rights era racist who unleashed police dogs and turned fire hoses on protesters. He was also a Democrat.)
Why would anyone think conservatives are racist?
If you’re white, even a bogus claim of racism is almost impossible to defend against. It’s the favorite of charlatans and media hounds, and a persistent media theme since Obama first announced for president. Everybody who’s anybody - the Tea Party, Fox, the GOP and more - are all racists for daring to oppose Obama.
No, they are racist because they continually use racially charged words and imagery (see above) to fire up their bigoted base.
Donald Trump’s request to see Obama’s grades? “That’s just code for saying he got into law school because he was black,” explained CBS’s Bob Schieffer. MSNBC’s lefty religious expert Frank Schaeffer tells viewers about “a racist white bloc in the Republican Party that has come dressed as the Tea Party.”
If you think Donald fucking Trump has a credibility level above zero after Obama sent him back to reality TV with his tail between his legs by releasing his birth certificate and killing Osama bin Laden in the same week, you really are a stereotypically dumb conservative.
Even black GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain gets abused as “racist.” TV nutball pundits from foul-mouthed comedian Bill Maher to massively inked, one-time comedienne Janeane Garofalo have criticized his candidacy - supposedly designed to deflect “the racism that is inherent in the Republican Party, the conservative movement, the tea party certainly.” Garofalo actually claimed Cain was being paid to fend off charges of racism against the GOP. Of course, you can’t fend off such disgusting charges. Even a lunatic like Garofalo knows that.
Cain proposed communities should be able to ban mosques, but anyone who criticizes such blistering stupidity is a “nutball.” Wait, are you saying progressives are crazy? Waaah!!! You’ve offended my delicate sensibilities!
Because such charges get repeated dozens, hundreds or thousands of times. The examples above are just scratching the surface. We could fill newspapers with these outlandish claims, if any bothered to print such truth. Crazy, stupid, evil and racist. The four horsemen of the liberal media apocalypse this election. And every one of them has already been set loose.
What. A. Crybaby. Seriously, if you have to dig up articles from Mother Jones and Rolling Stone to prove your imaginary persecution, you’re doing it wrong. And thanks for the melodramatic biblical allusion at the end of that facepalm-fest. Good lord, what happened to the conservative movement? Buckley, Dole, even past versions of McCain and Gingrich were at least smart guys who made valid points. Now they’ve been reduced to sniveling little bitches who cry persecution every time a liberal editorial criticizes one of their fanatical candidates. I don’t know if I can handle another 14 months of this.