Creative Deconstruction

Foolish People "I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark." -Rush Limbaugh I don't know if you know this or not, but when you're listening to his show and many others like his radio show, the calls are being screened. He likes to pick callers that will help him drive his point home and usually doesn't allow callers who disagree with him through. On the occasions that he does let a caller who opposes his perspective speak, he makes sure it's someone nice and dumb. So... Forget about it if you think that what you're listening to on his show reflects anything in reality. I do listen to parts of his radio show as well as other dogmatic propagandists radio hosts, from time to time. I call it "Checking in with stupid"...

Foolish People News is becoming like the Jerry Springer Show. It doesn't feel good to be labeled without evidence. Famous Quotes "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!" "Be quiet! I'm right and your wrong!" "I stand for good! You stand for evil!" Indiana University research study of, O'Reilly during a six-month period. Published in the Journal Journalism Studies ... "The seven propaganda devices include: * Name calling -- giving something a bad label to make the audience reject it without examining the evidence; * Glittering generalities -- the opposite of name calling; * Card stacking -- the selective use of facts and half-truths; * Bandwagon -- appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the crowd; * Plain folks -- an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their ideas, are "of the people"; * Transfer -- carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of something we respect or dispute to ...