Is Dissent ‘Legitimate’? Not According to Campaign Finance Laws
Why bother with “truth squads” when you can just create and rely on a virtual state-run media run by sympathetic, aiding-and-abetting corporations? Those handshake agreements don’t need to be publicized, and that’s where the American public is understandably leery, and drawn to a “renegade” news organization, a “freer” press, if you will. Or is an aggressive and contrary press only necessary for certain presidents?
The Founding Fathers themselves cast “government as the enemy,” decentralizing power and providing checks and balances. The social contract is a tenuous one, to be broken at will by the people, as evident in the declining market share of many major newspapers and news organizations. But of course, Dr. Lakoff and Mr. Welch can only explain that by positing a naive public duped by clever marketing techniques. (Apparently soundbites and fear-mongering are solely the province of Fox News.)
This duped citizen is concerned by a president who attacks, rather than ignores or laughs off, a segment of the press when he is the one “telling the truth.” Perhaps he prefers the “absolute reality.”
