Enabling Chris Christie: How Fox News, Joe Scarborough and faux-centrist pundits lie, deny and shade

[lindysalsagal]

Salon.com:
Enabling Chris Christie: How Fox News, Joe Scarborough and faux-centrist pundits lie, deny and shade the truth

http://www.salon.com/2014/02/04/enabling_chris_christie_how_fox_news_joe_scarborough_and_faux_centrist_pundits_lie_deny_and_shade_the_truth/
Bad journalism, false equivalency, phony objectivity: Christie coverage shows why mainstream media can't be trusted
PAUL ROSENBERG
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Displacement: Redirecting negative emotions, ideas, actions, etc., to a (less threatening) substitute target. Absolving Wall Street for destroying the economy, then turning around and blaming teachers, firefighters and police officers for local budget deficits — that’s a perfect example of displacement in action …

Splitting: Separating negative and positive impulses, emotions, ideas, etc. Splitting is arguably the most primitive defence mechanism. It underlies other defence mechanisms such as Dissociation: Separating oneself from parts of your life – and Compartmentalisation: Separating conflicting thoughts into separated compartments …

Rationalisation: Creating logical reasons for bad behaviour. Voter suppression laws were initiated based on the fantasy of massive voter fraud, but since there is no such massive voter fraud, they fall back on rationalisations — protecting against potential fraud, protecting “the integrity of the vote”, etc. …

Compensation: Making up for a weakness in one area by gaining strength in another. A lot of conservative “get tough” policies fall into this category …

Reaction formation: Converting unconscious wishes or impulses that are perceived to be dangerous into their opposites. A prominent example is Republican/conservative support for female or minority political figures who are particularly unsuited or unqualified

for the positions they are proposed for …

[pansypoo53219]

1. just as the gnewz media pimped for georgee W, TRIED to get us to LOVE palin, jumped on the obama

train, the media is trying to make christie the next president. the media is in LUV. they have a sad. obama is luv, they want a new luv.

[Gothmog]

2. Good Article

I enjoyed the article. There was nothing new in it but it was well organized and did a good job of explaining why so many people buy the crap that Fox News is selling

[lindysalsagal]

3. yes, it did.

Lots of 0sychological maneuvering required for being a good republican.