For the right
wing media, the bloody chum is already in the water. Not least for Marc Levin and then Michael Savage, who on Monday declared his "bromance"
over with Trump. His argument: Too many kind remarks to Obama.
Already too much ambiguity about how "alt.right" Trump will be.
Savage is the fellow, a little toy poodle of a man, who has licked and
yapped at Trump for months and went to any end to have him on his show once a
week, where he could faun to his heart’s content, but now it seems the savage
is being discarded. Not even an invitation to the inauguration.
And so the right
wing media is beginning to feed on itself. Glenn Beck's attack on Bannon is
also noteworthy. Of course, Savage and his ilk have always needed hatred to
survive, no matter how manufactured, no matter the source, and now, we see the
chemical proof....
But here's the
point. The strategy to deal with Hate Radio, among traditional news outlets,
has always been to ignore it, to undignify it, to block it with silence...
Unless there was something particularly outrageous. But I would argue that's no
longer effective. The obligation now is to call these people on their lies and
misinformation relentlessly, and down to the smallest detail. Because this is
what lead so many people to live in an alternate universe of opinion. Hate
Radio has never really been seen as the threat that it is....
Of course,
what’s remarkable is that Limbaugh would have his audience believe — with some
success clearly — that his own doubts about global warming outweigh the
analysis and judgment of 97 percent of
climate scientists, above all, NASA’s Goddard Institute, whose scientists, have
eliminated the other possibilities…..
So catch them on
everything, and spread the news everywhere, attack their advertisers and their
sponsors... Focus on their collusions and manipulations.... On the Internet and
in everyday conversation.. Of course, Politifact does much of this; and there
are some others, but that cannot be the whole effort.... The information war
needs to begin in earnest.
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