I just watched Hannity debate Jesse Ventura. While Jesse Ventura did go into some conspiracy stuff with Bush and Bin Ladin, Ive got to say he was far more honest and objective than Hannity.
I think that Fox News and Hannity in particular have got to go if there is ever going to be a comeback of any ideology to the right of Noam Chomsky for any period of time.
The first reason for this is that they are just tacky. Like it or not morality sans aesthetics is shit.
Am I saying that patriotism can be made hip? No, I’m not. Responsibility and duty cannot be made hip. But when people begin to see concrete consequences to irresponsibility and negligence, they can become quite realistic.
The second reason is that its undeniable at this point that we have two medias in this country, one serving the left, one serving the right. When your side is in power you need an absolutely honest and objective media on your side. All Fox etc did while Bush was in power was parrot the White House position and forward what I refer to as the “drag show” notion of patriotism. Which is that there is a caricatured idea of a thing (such as femininity in the idea of the drag queen) and then there is that actual thing. They are not the same thing.
In case you didn’t know this, perhaps the worst thing that can happen to a person is to have someone blow sunshine up their ass.
Unfortunately for Barack Obama, he has much the same problem. Just from the other side of the media spectrum, and from a much larger portion of the media spectrum.
