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Media Matters pointing out

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 01:03:45 +0000

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Media Matters pointing out Dobbs doing the victim thing today. I would argue that it's the victim thing that sells best now, where they are not hating, it's the activist left that's hating:

Lou Dobbs: "This is a war being waged by the left in this country" https://t.co/DYs9HAHv70 pic.twitter.com/mTyeoIWA18
— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 27, 2019

"they will wallow in further

NCD — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 01:02:30 +0000

In reply to just finished reading Jeremy

"they will wallow in further victim fantasies"

Exactly. It gives their lives meaning. It's why their kids with initiative and smarts who can, move away.

just finished reading Jeremy

artappraiser — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:44:43 +0000

In reply to Source at Fox News: "Fox is

just finished reading Jeremy Peters summary for the NYTimes of what their radio pals are up to, along with Pirro and Dobbs. Seems less chaos, just the usual.

“There is a war going on right now,” he told his audience this week, adding, “They haven’t given up trying to destroy us.”

Their words echo those of the president himself, who once declared, “What you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening,” and beseeched his followers to “stick with us,” and not to believe what “you see from these people, the fake news.”

To me, though, it's this one quote that really hits the target. I use to be aghast at Limbaugh just for this one simple reason: why would anyone want to listen to someone for three hours a day tell you what to think about what's going on in the world? After umpteen imitators came about, I finally realized: There's a certain kind of person that finds actual comfort in hearing preaching, someone telling them what to think. About a simplistic world picture that is easy to understand, who is good, who evil, and tells them they're winners to be faithful followers of the one true narrative. Whether it's a religious preacher or a Limbaugh:

“It’s victory at the expense of truth,” said Michael Harrison, the publisher of Talkers Magazine, which tracks the talk radio industry. The desire to win the argument and the election, he added, has resulted in media where “you don’t hear debate anymore; it’s just preaching to the choir.”

some listeners get angry and act out, true. But I think most of those have moved to internet hate groups gathering places, that's become more ground up with no leaders telling them what to think and believe. I think what's left of this right wing audience as to TV and radio is more like people getting their fix of "people like me", which means people who like a certain sermon to make sense of the world.

And there's a lot more victim thinking creeping in this demographic all the time. Which makes me think that if Trump ends up being removed, this isn't the type of demographic that will rise up in anger, rather they will wallow in further victim fantasies. And listen to their favorite preacher for even more hours per day;.

Source at Fox News: "Fox is

NCD — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 00:02:47 +0000

In reply to It's Management Bedlam at Fox News As Trump Faces Impeachment

Source at Fox News: "Fox is about defending our viewers from the people who hate them. That’s where our power comes from. It’s not about Trump.”

in other words, "Fox is about celebrating our loyal viewers receptiveness to our message of hate and fear, and their easily exploitable ignorance and bigotry, it's a bottomless well of power and cash."