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Chris Matthews asks…
[I]s there a little carrier pigeon that goes around from Mark Levin to Rush Limbaugh to Michelle Bachmann to Joe Barton? Who delivers these little pearls like “slush fund,” you know, and “shakedown?” Where do these words come from?
Well, yes Chris, there is a “little carrier pigeon” and the message they carry is called Conservative Daily Talking Points. Anyone who spends any time reading up on what the right has to say on any specific day would be able to pick out the day’s meme du jour. Here’s DailyKos’ take on how it spreads.
…right-wing radio passes the talking point to right-wing TV and newspapers, which pass the talking point to the right-wing politicians. Usually there’s a generous assist from Drudge and Politico, and that’s often all it takes to get the rest of the establishment media to pile on and parrot the talking point, lest they miss out on the kerfuffle du jour. (And let’s not forget right-wing think tanks and corporate front groups, who help provide “studies” and “position papers” and “policy speeches” to add a dollop of fake gravitas to the right-wing talking point.) All one big happy echo chamber.
In fairness, the left has its own set of daily talking points but they lack the noise machine required to spread the word out to the masses. There is no Rush Limbaugh or Fox News on the left working in unison to slam anything which has a liberal stamp on it. And then doing so with the shameless attitude required to lie, distort and pretty much say anything which helps muddy up the waters a bit more.
The right’s success derives from its ability to keep the misinformed misinformed and allowing them to believe that they are indeed informed. The wingnuts tuning in really don’t know any better. If Glenn Beck, Erick Erickson, Sarah Palin, Jim DeMint and Michele Bachmann are all saying the same thing, then hey, it has to be true.
All in all, it’s a neat trick.
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That tired old canard, “Ignorance is bliss.”?
William McAdoo said it right;
“You can’t win an argument with an ignorant man.”
Just mock ‘em….they deserve no better….
With the lock step talking points it was interesting that none of the Sunday talking heads challenged the ‘oh, no, not me.’ reps who know good and well that the Republican Study Committee had posted exactly the line Barton took on their web site prior to his testimony.
We have long known that the 140+ members of the House who are members of this group don’t do squat without the okay of the RSC.
Now suddenly we had Repulican after Republican denouncing BArton and BP. But none of the media called them on it. That is what I find frustrating.
They again are in charge of what passes for ‘truth’.