Unhinged in 30 days: The right-wing media's Obama era implosion

[marmar]

from Media Matters:



Unhinged in 30 days: The right-wing media's Obama era implosion
by Eric Boehlert


The Republican Noise Machine doesn't need the customary 100 days to size up the new president. Right-wing commentators barely needed 30 days to come to their conclusion that they hate everything Barack Obama stands for.

In terms of speed and efficiency, the right-wing collection of bloggers, AM talkers, pundits, and yes, newspaper cartoonists, may have set a new land speed record for becoming collectively unhinged, as they wail and moan about how the new Democratic president's turning America into a fascist state, or communist, or socialist, or whatever other bugaboo claim Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham are tossing out to viewers and listeners on a daily basis.

Barack Obama is "arrogant," "dishonest," and "radical," Fox News' Sean Hannity announced during a single 10-second chunk of prime-time TV last week -- a casually hateful appraisal that didn't even raise eyebrows, simply because that kind of blanketed disdain for the new president has already become so commonplace.

Rush Limbaugh's original anti-Obama proclamation at the outset of his presidency -- "I hope he fails" -- already seems benign in retrospect. Since Inauguration Day we've learned Obama has "Marxist tendencies" and is "addicting this country to heroin -- the heroin that is government slavery" (Glenn Beck). That, "there are eerie, eerie similarities" between Obama and Nazis" (Michael Savage's guest host, Chris Stigall). And of course, Limbaugh himself famously bemoaned that "we are being told that we have to hope (Obama) succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black." ........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://mediamatters.org/columns/200902230016

[peace13]

1. When the media is allowed treasonous comments 24/7 it is no wonder. n/t

[MannyGoldstein]

2. They Are Blowing Themselve's Up

Appalling yet necessary.

[old mark]

3. Yet a poll I saw on DU this morning says that 77% are optimistic

that President Obama is doing a good job with the economy, and that most polled understand tha GOPs are doing nothing but playing politics while the country is in trouble.

Let the right keep showing everyone what scum they really are - people are seeing the reality of it now, and the GOPs will lose big in the next elections.

mark

[nradisic]

4. Running to irrelevance

The MSM has basically talked them selves into irrelevance. No one I know pays attention to the talking heads on TV. They supported the failed corporate and GOP agenda without fail and never questioned or bothered to investigate. the fact that they change their attitude on a dime as Obama came into office is only making them more irrelevant. Americans are not that stupid. Look at the ratings and revenue from advertising....the MSM news cycle is going the way of the newspaper....into extinction. I get all of my news online and have been for years. Why? Because I realized years ago how irrelevant the MSM was and decided to gather my own news online.

[rurallib]

5. heard a couple guys out of Denver last night that did everything but

call for an attempted shooting. Sorry to write that.

[Stellabella]

6. It's tempting to tell them to watch it.

President Obama has all of the eavesdropping and arrest capabilities that Bush put in place. They might get themselves a little visit from the Secret Service if they don't watch it. I've already told one family member that.

And pointed out that's why I don't want a president to have that much power. But hey, if it shuts them up and scares them a little bit, that's a good thing.