Thursday, January 27, 2005

Disillusioned Conservative Says Media Ain't Liberal

From Paul Craig Roberts' "End-Timers and Neo-Cons:"
The Iraqi War is serving as a great catharsis for multiple conservative frustrations: job loss, drugs, crime, homosexuals, pornography, female promiscuity, abortion, restrictions on prayer in public places, Darwinism and attacks on religion. Liberals are the cause. Liberals are against America. Anyone against the war is against America and is a liberal. "You are with us or against us."

This is the mindset of delusion, and delusion permits no facts or analysis. Blind emotion rules. Americans are right and everyone else is wrong. End of the debate.

That, gentle reader, is the full extent of talk radio, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal Editorial page, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and, indeed, of the entire concentrated corporate media where noncontroversy in the interest of advertising revenue rules.
I don't agree with his contention that liberals went wrong because they trusted government too much. But, I'll welcome any conservative who can pull back the curtain on this sham administration and the sad complict media that has supported it. Even if he's an unrepentant supply-sider.

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