Thread: Right Is Not Center

A good read that I totally agree with... there is only one party, the corporatist party.



Newsflash: Right Is Not Center





By David Sirota



“War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength”—more than a quarter-century after those oxymorons were supposed to pervade an Orwellian 1984, today’s media make such newspeak even more preposterous: On economic issues, we are often told that right is center, center is left, and left is fringe.



For a year, national reporters (with help from conservative talk-radio goons) have depicted the center-right Obama administration and its corporatist policies as quasi-Marxist. We’ve heard that a government-run public health care option is a “liberal” cause, even as polls confirm that most Americans—not just liberals—support the idea. We’re told that legislators backing no-strings-attached bank bailouts are mainstream “centrists,” while bailout opponents are extremists—even as public opinion surveys say the opposite.



This is Washington’s “fair and balanced” journalism (or “journalism,” as it were) and as two of the most respected metro newspapers show this week, its distortions can bleed into local coverage.

[quote name='Inkslinger' date='19 January 2010 - 03:39 PM' timestamp='1263944355' post='101673']

A good read that I totally agree with... there is only one party, the corporatist party.



Newsflash: Right Is Not Center





By David Sirota



“War is peace, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength”—more than a quarter-century after those oxymorons were supposed to pervade an Orwellian 1984, today’s media make such newspeak even more preposterous: On economic issues, we are often told that right is center, center is left, and left is fringe.



For a year, national reporters (with help from conservative talk-radio goons) have depicted the center-right Obama administration and its corporatist policies as quasi-Marxist. We’ve heard that a government-run public health care option is a “liberal” cause, even as polls confirm that most Americans—not just liberals—support the idea. We’re told that legislators backing no-strings-attached bank bailouts are mainstream “centrists,” while bailout opponents are extremists—even as public opinion surveys say the opposite.



This is Washington’s “fair and balanced” journalism (or “journalism,” as it were) and as two of the most respected metro newspapers show this week, its distortions can bleed into local coverage.

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President Obama is center right?



I don't know where this comes from... its not like "left" is a dirty word. There are multiple strategies for the management of a nation, and there is no reason to deny one's left or rightness. *shrug* I don't get the point here. I think the left and right both have fringes that have moved away from center.

[quote name='Gypsy' date='19 January 2010 - 03:56 PM' timestamp='1263945406' post='101687']

What board do you belong to? lol

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Isn't this grouphug.com ?

[quote name='Gypsy' date='19 January 2010 - 04:30 PM' timestamp='1263947424' post='101709']

No, I would offer to give you a hug but the last time I offered, Babs and Knight didn't respond. So, no more hug offers. As a matter of fact Gabe, you reported me!

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lol well, you know... I felt it was my duty as a Californian, living in post prop 8, to report all male bondage. That report went straight to Pat Robertson!

[quote name='The_Bear' date='19 January 2010 - 07:26 PM' timestamp='1263947181' post='101706']

populism won't work unless people stop being selfish

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