How the American Media Helped the GOP Become An International Humiliation

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By Sarah Jones <http://www.politicususa.com/en/author/sarah-jones>

When a political party suffers a “political lobotomy” in public during
election season, the entire nation’s reputation suffers.

Top international news magazine Spiegel (think Europe’s version of Time or
Newsweek) ran an article written by Marc Pitzke calling the Republicans a
farce who are ruining our country’s reputation.  The article is entitled,
‘The Republicans’ Farcical Candidates; A Club of Liars, Demagogues and
Ignoramuses.’ In this article, Mr. Pitzke writes what our press here won’t:

The US Republican race is dominated by ignorance, lies and scandals.  The
current crop of candidates has 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.


We knew it was true, but it hurts to read it.  We won’t often read such
stark condemnations in the mainstream press here.

It probably helps that Spiegel has “most likely the world’s largest fact
checking operation”.  Yes, Virginia, their press actually checks facts
unlike ours, who reports what both sides have “said” and the runs away,
eagerly clutching their invite to John McCain’s ranch party like an
hysterical tween Twilight fan waiting for Edward.  This is the same
American press that jumped in to defend Fox News from President Obama’s
easily and obviously true charge that it was not a news outlet.

The American press has twisted themselves into self-effacing, obsequious
contortions of false equivalence in order to appease conservatives until
they’ve become an embarrassing parody of a political entourage rather than
a functioning fourth estate.  Our press are also quite cozy with their
corporate bosses who like our news to be so conservatively “balanced” that
it tips over with lies and distortions.

Now, thanks to the press, we are “debating” science versus belief as if
both are equally factual, which is not the same thing as debating the
merits of science versus belief or the necessity of either or the choice,
even, of faith over proof.  No, we are drowning in an avalanche of
deliberately and cynically invoked stupidity that threatens our nation’s
standing among other civilized nations; while we are debate if people
walked among dinosaurs other nations get on with the business of addressing
serious matters.

Republicans have humiliated America internationally time and time again.
Whether it was monosyllabic Neanderthal Jim Inhofe in Copenhagen charging
that climate change was a hoax sold by liberal elites in Hollywood
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a winking Sarah Palin’s treasonous siren call of hatred in China, the hits
have kept coming.

Meanwhile, certain other Republicans couldn’t travel to certain countries
lest they be arrested for international war crimes, and still the party
held its head high and blustered poutrage from their imaginary moral high
ground and the American press hunkered down in their bunker of neurotic,
co-dependent GOP-pleasing, endlessly apologizing to the outraged
Republicans at their first whine of wolf.

The toxic Tea Party brew of Old Testament bigotry and hatred combined
perfectly with the Koch brothers neo-Bircher agenda to create a neo-Fascist
corporatized and glossily worshiped stupidity.

Held captive by our collective numbing and dumbing down, we were barely
shocked when union members were blamed for Wall Street’s destruction of
economic opportunity.  We had been prepared through years of merely
“reporting what they said” versus fact checking reality, and so we fought
an uphill battle against a Luntzian meme sold to us from Fox but trickled
into the mainstream by the Republican Fan Club of the mainstream press who
know that Republicans hold grudges.  Access is King.

We were told all points of view were equal.  But of course, that’s not
true.  In the free market of ideas and intelligence, some people are
actually smarter than others and some theories are actually supported by
evidence.  Both of these things should matter when you’re leading the free
world if its exceptionalism you crave and meritocracy you tout.

Cowering in shame from Right wing charges of elitism, the press ensured
that we were ripe for this year’s clown show.  The press now demands that
we all lower ourselves in a disingenuous and phony show of respect for the
“values” of conservatives (adultery, ethics violations, sexual harassment
and Randian death wishes for the poor).  This press is so steeped in
back-stabbing condescension combined with blindly ambitious self-service as
to embarrass the watcher.  The press knows better, but they’re happy to go
along with the notion that the “ideas” emanating from the most uneducated
bigots among us deserve equal air space with the Nobel Laureates.

We call this American exceptionalism because it keeps us from noticing that
any chance we had at exceptionalism is now gone, swept away with a
distorted capitalistic system meant to enrich the most unethical players
instead of the hardest workers.  So died the American dream of economic
opportunity.  The press distracts from this reality by suggesting that Rick
Perry or Herman Cain are presidential material, which is a pat on the head
to the deliberately dumbed down among us lest they notice how they got
screwed.

Yes, you too can be president, see nothing is a matter of merit anymore!
Even the most recent study showing that watching Fox makes you more
ignorant than watching no news will not convince the Fox Followers that
they are being used.

It is only now that “serious minded” (the quotation marks are for their
cynical silence in public during the last 3 years, pretending they didn’t
see where their party was going) Republicans such as Peggy Noonan and
George Will are speaking the truth that the press dares to point out
factual inaccuracies in Republican debates.  Noonan, calling the line up a
“freakshow,” has been perhaps most blunt.  Are they to be congratulated for
finally daring to speak up, only after they see their party in real
political peril?

It didn’t serve the Republicans for the press to speak the truth and so the
“serious thinkers” among the conservatives ignored the glaring break from
reality as the Tea Party charged the President with socialism.  It suited
them then, but three years later, they don’t like the result.

And so now they have started to denounce the party, as if they didn’t see
this coming when they themselves conspired to sell the public on the
absurdity that Healthcare reform was socialism.  The pied pipers in the
mainstream media are taking their cues and gingerly beginning to call out
minor problems with the Republican candidates as if there were any way to
do the utter horror show of stupidity justice in one correction.

One imagines the mainstream journalist seeing him or herself as the brave
warrior daring to fact check a Republican, when in fact they were given the
green light to do so and without such permission would have remained
silently complicit in the ruination of this country, bowing down to charges
of sexism and liberal bias while selling the entire country down the river
of revivalist tent, snake oil mediocrity passing itself off as Republican
ideology.

We laugh at the current crop of Republicans the way some people laugh at a
funeral; the horror so unreal as to be incomprehensible, the grief for our
nation suppressed with a thin layer of hope that this is an anomaly.  But
of course, it’s not.

Republican party leaders must surely be amazed in private at their ability
to sell us anything; even they must be shocked and somewhat saddened that
they have gotten away with it all.

The mainstream media knows that most of the Republican candidates ooze
hubris the way only a small mind looking for a quick slice of spoiled
American pie can.  They know that a party running grifters, con artists and
carnival barkers as Presidential material shouldn’t be giving a sane
President a run for his money — and wouldn’t be, if only they had done
their jobs.

But without a horse race the financials of a corporate press look glum.  So
we are taken along the for the ride of the relentless struggle for the
lowest point to which the Republicans can sink without dying, aided and
abetted by the mainstream press.

The fact that any of these candidates, save Jon Huntsman, are taken
seriously is an alarming indicator of the imminent fall of America.  We’ve
been dragged down kicking and screaming by a Right wing so attached to its
own superiority that it refused to acknowledge when it was wrong.

Instead of reassessing what it means to be a conservative post
Bush-debacle, conservatives put a flashier cross on their ideas, more
supercilious padding on their epistemic closure and jacked up the hate and
division; hence creating the farcical show we’re all being subjected to
today.

And they wonder how they got here while we wonder how we let them ruin this
country and cause us international embarrassment.

The press won’t stop greedily licking the crazy crumbs off of the
Republicans’ floor long enough to have even a moment of clarity, but since
the GOP’s political death comes painfully dished out over numerous
humiliatingly-televised debates, the press will cover the bleeding
demagogues of the Republican Party just as they did Anna Nicole’s death.
They will never discuss their complicity in allowing the Republican Party
to become the sad clown it is today, let alone behave as the fourth estate
should.

The big show goes on, as the foundation of our nation caves under the
inestimable weight of the collective ignorance and hubris.


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