................Welcome to the GOP "FREAKSHOW"..............
(Spiegel quote)The Republicans' Farcical Candidates
A Club of Liars, Demagogues and Ignoramuses
The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals. The current crop of candidates have shown such a basic lack of knowledge that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein. The Grand Old Party is ruining the entire country's reputation.
As an American expat living in the European Union I've come to rely on the mainstream media within the European Union in order to receive impartial information and objective reporting on the United States in terms of economic and political investigative reporting, which is unavailable measurably in the US plutocrat owned media, which refuses to bite the hand that feeds it.
Did you know that the GOP is making the THE UNITED STATES THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAINSTREAM MEDIA!
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.(Spiegel quote)....IT'S HORRIFYING because these eight so-called, would-be candidates are eagerly ruining not only their own reputations and that of their party, the party of Lincoln lore. Worse: THEY'RE RUNINING THE REPUTATION OF THE UNITED STATES.
In what is becoming rapidly the propaganda arm of a neo-feudalist plutocracy, which ignores the plight of America's nouveau poor, and ignores the 59 million Americans who have no health insurance; 60 million Americans who have no paid sick leave and the fact the US is the only major industrialized country in the world that offers none of these things, to include paid maternity leave to its residents as a human right.
So it is that this review turns its attention to a recent article from the mainstream German publication Der Spiegel, which in fact has become representative of popular reporting throughout the European Union, wherein the GOP Presidential campaign is regularly referred to as a 'freak show' which takes place in a circus like atmosphere, wherein Presidential candidates vying for the most powerful office in the world stumble over their own fatuous feet regularly with complete impunity, because the plutocrat owned American media has no interest in promoting factual reporting, but rather has become a profit making center whose sole function in life is not to report anything substantively, but rather to win rating's wars for ever bigger profits, because their mission is no longer to report anything, but rather to sell commercial advertising space, so as to be able to generate ever bigger profits. In short it is all about money and nothing about people.
While this is pervasive throughout the neo-feudalist plutocrat owned American for profit commercial media, this Spiegel article takes a look at its most egregious member which is Fox news, wherein a recent Farleigh Dickinson University study shows that their viewers are less informed that people who watch no news at all!
The Fox news promotions have turned the GOP into a caricature, which is turning America into a political laughing stock, wherein for example GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain doesn't think China is a nuclear power.
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As CEO of the "Godfather's" pizza chain, Cain killed jobs -- but now poses as the job-creator-in-chief. Meanwhile, he seems to lack basic economic know-how, let alone a rudimentary grasp of politics or geography. Libya confounds him. He does not believe that China is a nuclear power. And all other, slightly more complicated questions get a stock answer: "Nine-nine-nine!" Remember? That's Cain's tax reduction plan that would actually raise taxes for 84 percent of Americans.
Obviously reality has long since become a casualty in GOP politics, that frankly no longer matters, yet the world looks at GOP not just as a caricature, but as frightening because they are trying to elect somebody to the most powerful office in the world, whose thumb will be placed on the nuclear trigger.
(Spiegel quote)"FREAKSHOW"
They lie. They cheat. They exaggerate. They bluster. They say one idiotic, ignorant, outrageous thing after another. They've shown such stark lack of knowledge -- political, economic, geographic, historical...........
So it is with great alarm the world looks on the GOP's America, where hunger abounds, where over 2 million people are in prison, where the death penalty hasn't been abolished, where health care isn't a human right, the world looks on in disbelief, shock, horror and now in amusement at the freak show, which has become the GOP.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the US Republicans. Or rather, to the twisted world of what they call their presidential campaigns. For months now, they've been traipsing around the country with their traveling circus, from one debate to the next, one scandal to another, putting themselves forward for what's still the most powerful job in the world.
..............Welcome to the GOP "FREAKSHOW".................
The Spiegel reports that there are NO LIMITS to how low the GOP will go!!
Spiegel quote: As it turns out, there are no limits to how far they will stoop.
(Spiegel quote)Good for Ratings
What a nice club that is. A club of liars, cheaters, adulterers, exaggerators, hypocrites and ignoramuses. "A starting point for a chronicle of American decline,".......
So the US elections are a reality show after all, a pseudo-political counterpart to the Paris Hiltons, Kim Kardashians and all the "American Idol" and "X Factor" contestants littering today's TV. The cruder, the dumber, the more bizarre and outlandish -- the more lucrative. Especially for Fox News, whose viewers were recently determined by Fairleigh Dickinson University to be far less informed than people who don't watch TV news at all.
It is horrifying and sad, because the GOP, Fox News and Wall Street have turned America into an international laughing stock!! This has to stop!!
As as an American Expat who holds an M.B.A degree in marketing, here is how I see Fox News as the propaganda arm of a neo-feudalist plutocracy through the eyes of the European mainstream media.
Welcome to the neo-feudalist plutocrat disinformation Fox News channel where their job is not to inform people but to sell advertising space to make money.
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Spiegel quote :The Tea Party would take issue with that assessment. They cheer the loudest for the worst, only to see them fail, as expected, one by one. Which goes to show that this "movement," sponsored by Fox News, has never been interested in the actual business of governing or in the intelligence and intellect that requires. They are only interested in marketing themselves, for ratings and dollars.
Read the full Spiegel article: http://www.spiegel.de/...
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