Travis ----- Original Message ----- From: "R" <rhisiart at charter.net> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] cheney on the economy
> At 08:18 PM 9/10/2004, you wrote:
>>Jokem if they can't take a fk: the new Dem Strat. Although cooked
>>lemonade tastes like Kerry.
>>
>>But, nonetheless, better.
>>
>>Travis
>
> one thing that was very effective against the loony right wing was humor.
> it takes itself very seriously. brecht often used satirical humor against
> the nazis (which went right over their heads, or around their other ends)
> according to my uncle who was a personal friend of his.
>
> the crazy ideas and attitudes of the right used to be seen as humorous
> during the 1960s and early 70s. even some TV anchor people would laugh
> openly at certain bizarre, rightwing "news" stories. but as the right
> organized and started drowning advertisers and station execs with mass
> mailings and telephone campaigns containing threats not to buy products,
> complaints about being mistreated, complaints about the "liberal" media,
> etc., the humor stopped and serious media faces announced the most gross
> and farcical absurdities in right wing beliefs as if they weren't comedy
> and stupidity.
>
> the eventual outcome was respect for right wing craziness that it doesn't
> deserve -- and the trickle down effect this had on the population at
> large. the kind of pure idiocy like cheney's comment that if kerry's
> elected, the US will be attacked by terrorists as if it wasn't when
> shrub/cheney, et al, were running things on 9/11, and isn't in greater
> danger now due to bush/cheney. and cheney's follow up about ebay. people
> began taking this garbage seriously.
>
> what we have in the media today, with its emphasis on how wonderful
> antediluvian right wing notions are, shows like hannity, o'reilly, show
> "liberals" who are right of center, etc., is what we get for forgetting to
> laugh at stupidity, failing to speaking truth to abject ignorance,
> allowing wedge issues to be taken seriously, avoiding "controversy," and
> refusing to confront the oxymoron "rightwing thought" for what it is.
>
> R
>
>
>
>>>"If we only included bake sales and how much money kids make at lemonade
>>>stands, this economy would really be cooking," Edwards said in a
>>>statement.
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