Yay, Redstate!
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Where the votes are is in the “middle” – that undefined muddled plurality of the electorate that is at best marginally informed, that only really pays attention to the “issues” in the last few weeks (when its actually too late) of the campaign, but that has been passively absorbing what they’ve been seeing in the news, on the headlines at the newspaper/magazine stand, in their favorite television shows, at the movies, in novels, etc.
Make no mistake; these folks mostly have no idea what is going on except at the most superficial level.
(snip)
the problem is not a lack of intelligence, it’s a lack of knowledge and an opposition with the wherewithal (thanks to their dominance of the spheres of news media and entertainment) to fill the vacuum.
(note: this is, of course, the Low Information Voter Syndrome that cons like Limbaugh love to use as the perfect excuse for their continuing losses.)
The Democrats and their allies in the media and the entertainment industry really figured this out in the aftermath of 2004 – when they went to attend classes on “framing” by George Lakoff. Steven Spielberg specifically called on the writers and producers in the entertainment industry to incorporate political messaging into their output in one of the meetings held in multiple liberal Hollywood mansions following Election Day 2004.
(Note: I love this paragraph, particularly "multiple liberal Hollywood mansions." It just doesn't get more conservativey than that.)
(snip even more WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHBULANCE calls to 911)
After 2004, too many of us became over-confident, convinced that the Press has lost its ability to influence the public, that they would soon "implode". 2006 and 2008 (most especially) proved us dreadfully wrong.
I’ve encountered far too many people, most of them distressingly young and supposedly educated (the voters of the future), who believe, thanks to what they see on TV, what they read in their magazines and watch in movies, that Lincoln was a Democrat and that George Wallace was a Republican, that the Civil Rights Acts were passed over Republican opposition, that the “Southern Strategy” actually is still (or was ever) employed by the GOP.
There are people who believe that jailing women who have miscarriages (not just abortions) is part of the GOP platform, that Republicans want to make Christianity a condition of citizenship, that we want to imprison homosexuals and prohibit certain sexual acts in the privacy of people’s homes. I literally heard an African American woman with a year of college under her belt wail after the results came in on Election Night 2004 that Bush was going to make slavery legal again.
(and now the real kicker:)
It’s so pervasive in American pop-culture that the GOP is a racist, sexist hate-fueled party that it is something I’ve heard from the mouths of people from the United Kingdom to South Africa, people who have never been to the United States. Worse, I’ve heard it from newly arrived immigrants hoping to become citizens to people just coming to study who have not yet spent one week in the United States.
This can’t be emphasized enough; the Republican Party is in serious trouble because of this failure to engage.
This is why Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood project is so important, and why the GOP, whether it be the RNC or some outside group needs to invest serious money in making documentaries and politically-themed West Wing like shows (even if only for the Internet and straight-to-video/DVD market). Even if only for the purpose of correcting the record and marketing our party, the money spent would be well worth it.
Comedy. Pure fucking comedy.
" It’s so pervasive in American pop-culture that the GOP is a racist, sexist hate-fueled party"
And why??, Martin screams out to the heavens -- because of the Media. Because of the Hollywood-NYC-many-mansioned-liberal-cabal with their "secret meetings" and "billionaire friends". (IOW, Jews. He means Jews.)
Now here's the kicker: if you haven't already, observe the date of this article. January 2009. 2009. This article is more than five years old. Five years ago, this guy is whining about how the poor innocent GOP is soooooo badly misunderstood.
We are such wonderful people. We really are! We love puppy dogs, mom, and apple pie. It's the media and the liberals and their mansions who keep using sharpies to draw devil's horns and mustaches on us. Thank goodness for Breitbart media! Because we have no one else to speak for us!! The big networks won't give our point of view, so therefore, scrappy underdogs that we are, we'll do it DIY with dvds, the internet and unbelievably crappy, low-rent documentaries.
And now here we are five years later and we have a GOP that applauds the vigilante killing of an unarmed black teen, hates Cheerios and Coca-Cola ads that celebrate diversity, that wants to ban access not just to abortion, but to contraception, describes undocumented aliens as "drug mules", and which, just for shits and giggles, passes bills making discrimination legal.
>>sigh<<
Remember this. Remember this year, next year, in 2016, and beyond. They are their own worst enemy and simultaneously the absolute WORST this country has to offer but they will never stop clothing themselves in sheep's clothing. They will never stop posing themselves as "victims" continually under assault by The Diversity Agenda. We can't afford to EVER lose vigilance when it comes to their twisted world view. Never.