FLASHBACK:Unhinged in 30 Days: Right Wing Media's Obama Era Implosion (2/24/09, Boehlert)

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Nothing's changed in seven months about the Right's telegraphed moves except of course the vitriol and hate levels.. Boehalrt asks a chilling question in the last paragraph, who's answer he already knew.

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"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.

If we just pause and take one or two steps back from the daily/hourly barrage of hate, it's obvious that faced with the new Obama presidency, the Republican Noise Machine has already lost all perspective -- has gone totally loco -- and it's only February, a mere month into Obama's first four years in office. Who dares to even imagine where the right-wing "conversation" goes from here?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-boehlert/unhinged-in-30-days-the-r_b_169379.html





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