Andrew Keen talks with Mark Halperin, Political Director of ABC News, and John Harris, National Political Editor for the Washington Post, authors of %%AMAZON=1400064473 The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008%% about the freak show elements of our politics and our media as Foleymania rolls like a tsunami over our political landscape.
Halprin and Harris: “Freak show values and freak show incentives are not on the fringes, but at the center of our media.”
“There’s never been a media that 24 hours a day … emphasizes the attack, the negative, and the superficial over anything else. The current media culture allows the low culture, the attack media politics to dominate.”
“Matt Drudge is the outsider, the kid with his nose pressed against the window. …”
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And yet, ironically, Matt Drudge is trying to stop this story, violating the very precepts that make him more than an elevator operator.
It’s the Republican side of him coming up against the Freak Show side of him.
Highly ironic, since he is the exemplar of Freak Show media.
Hoist by his own petard.
“He grew up with feelings of anger, bitterness towards the system. These kinds of feelings are one’s that lots of Conservatives identify with….”
Ah, yes. The theory that Conservatism is the product of stunted emotional/psychological development.
No bias there, nosireebob.