Seeking gossip about Russia, Comey, etc, I visited Louise Mensch’s twitter account and found this gem by one Eric Garland, an epic rant about Rupert Murdoch and the evil, destructive empire of FOX News,
Take a few minutes and scroll through the thread. I’ve been thinking along similar lines — nothing explains the FOX phenomenon other than a long-range plan targeting the US and our liberal, inclusive democracy. The Murdochs have damaged Britain as well but FOX is perhaps the most egregious purveyor of Goebbels-like anti-truth propaganda in the West. And what is there to be gained from it?
This country has been badly, perhaps irreparably harmed by Murdoch. Formerly reasonable political parties have been polarized, people now live in alternate worlds — the real world and FOX world, Land of Alternative Facts — but “facts” with stunning and dangerous real-world consequences.
What we saw today in the Oval Office, courtesy of the Russian news agency TASS no less, was chilling — so-called POTUS laughing it up with two powerful Russian diplomats a day after he fired James Comey for investigating Russiagate — and the American press wasn’t even allowed in the room!
Add Cambridge Analytica to this mess and guess what — Russia and Wikileaks may be the least of our problems — thanks to FOX, Citizens United, people like the Mercers with their weaponized data system that is nothing less than a psy-ops platform and absolutely soulless, greedy, unpatriotic GOP congressmen and voila! America the Beautiful is in grave peril.
We must find a way to bring back the Fairness Doctrine, slain by Ronald Reagan himself. And the hagiography of Reagan as a Great American must be challenged. He was a hard right winger, anti-worker, completely against New Deal/Great Society programs, clearly an exponent of the Southern Strategy and for the US, a disaster that has finally resulted in Donald J Trump, the Afghan and Iraq wars, the death grip of Grover Norquist and the NRA on the Republican Party; and incredible wealth inequality that threatens to destabilize our economy and our nation.