Dem Rep.: Right-Wing Blogs ‘Manufacture Controversy,’ Like Pre-Holocaust Nazi Propaganda

[Tx4obama]

Dem Rep.: Right-Wing Blogs ‘Manufacture Controversy,’ Like Pre-Holocaust Nazi Propaganda

In a satellite radio appearance Wednesday morning, Rep. James Clyburn (D-MD) scolded “extreme right-wing blogs” for not being “news” and for acting in manner he believes is destructive like pre-Holocaust Nazi propaganda outlets.

Asked by Sirius XM POTUS host Jon Decker whether race relations have improved under President Obama, Clyburn answered in the affirmative before going off on the “negative” aspects of the Internet:

“You have manufactured controversies. You have people’s words and phrases being misrepresented and looped through the news media and thrown out there on the Internet, and people run with it because these things start getting reported in the mainstream media, and before you know it, people believe that stuff.”

He warned that such “manufactured controversies” could have similar consequences as seen in pre-Holocaust Germany:

“The people of Germany believed Hitler’s foolishness that led to the Holocaust. They believed that stuff. People will tend to believe what they hear through the media.”

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Rest of article and 'audio' clip here: http://www.mediaite.com/online/democratic-rep-right-wing-blogs-manufacture-controversy-like-pre-holocaust-nazi-propaganda/

[Hekate]

1. Clyburn is right. nt

[snot]

2. Yes. Because we (Dems) allowed

nearly all helpful restrictions w.r.t. the media to be repealed.

It's depressingly refreshing to see a Dem pol notice that there's a problem.

[joshcryer]

5. Just a clarification, the Fairness Doctrine was a rule.

Not a law, so it could be re-implemented tomorrow if a proper FCC administrator (and managers) was placed. Also, as an administrative rule it was ruled constitutional, so there's nothing stopping it from being reimplemented without Congress.

[Nye Bevan]

6. I'm not fond of "restrictions w.r.t. the media"

regardless of how "helpful" some people think these restrictions might be.

[rpannier]

3. The Nazi's didn't have as many crazy conspiracy theories as the modern day reich wingers have

manufactured, the nice way of saying crazy

[joshcryer]

4. Google "active measures."

Same shit, different day.