Pro-wars envy anti-wars' "deep pockets"

[Dennis Perrin]

> Or is the delusion that, since discourse has wrenched so far to the right,
> even an occasionally-faintly-liberal-but primarily-centrist position is
> regarded by these people as "leftist"?   Since that's the essential feel
of
> what  is put out by ABC, NBC, and CBS, that's why they think there's some
> big well-funded "leftist" monolith out there?   I'd like to know if other
> people like me really struggle with the flat-out irrationality of all
this.

I ran into this all the time, esp in debates with AIM and MRC (two far right
media groups). These people truly believe that the mass media, the corp
press, whatever you want to call it, is left wing and that it promotes
socialism. And no amount of evidence to the contrary ever sways them. Now
and then a right winger or neocon will admit the truth -- the Standard's
William Kristol did years ago -- but it's with a smirk and aimed at those
who know it already. To the great right wing mass, however, it is a fable
with no ending.

DP