Playing clip of Beck, CBS's Greenfield notes "fear" of Obama "fed ... by Fox News pundits"
Greenfield also fact-checks Fox's false ad claiming other media outlets did not cover tea party protest
September 20, 2009 12:58 pm ET
From the September 20 edition of CBS Sunday Morning:
The other right-wing media mogul you should worry about
Palin's book and Obama's bow: a media week to forget
Media Matters: The Palin chronicles
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No conideration of single payer health care reform - off the table.
8 years of W. Bush, Even more years of republican controlled congress
Strong conservative presence in the Supreme Court
Nothing to be done on global warming
Strong Christian right presence in politics
etc etc etc
95 percent of talk radio in the US is right wing because it serves the purpose of the corporatists.
Talk radio and Fox are an endless loop of misinformation, back and forth, back and forth.
Democrats have no ability to gin up the kind of nonsense the republicans can with the big assist from Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh et al.
Beck and Hannity wouldn't have anywhere near the power without the massive disparity in talk radio.
I am amazed at how many of my MBA friends think R Limbaugh is the greatest thing of the 20th century, A former events coordinator for the Kansas City Royals whose da's political connections finall got him a radio show. How's that for authoritative intellectual discourse?
The reason Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh are successful is because they know how to read and play on the emotions and incuriosity of their audience. They are also masters at delivering their messages in very simplistic and black-and-white un-nuanced ways, using charged terms like "liberal" and "socialist", which just reinforces the fear, xenophobia, and mistrust in their viewership. I'm sure if you dug into the actual experiences of the protesters it'd be pretty difficult to draw any direct causal linkage between what they're going through (e.g. unemployment or decline in standard of living) and the current administration's policies. It's purely fear of change I think, and the right-wing talking heads are masters at waxing nostalgic about the "former good times in America".
my feeling with the far-right currently is that they are at the highest level they can be, and there is almost no way that they can go higher. they will enjoy this little ride of popularity, and eventually it will plummet like the end of a roller coaster when it takes that last deep dive. they better enjoy it because as soon as healthcare passes, obama's approval goes up again, the economy continues to turn around, this conservative uprising is going to die down real quick. and that will create a better chance of the republicans not gaining any of their seats back in 2010 or even having a chance at a new president in 2012... which seems impossible as it is with how much of a minority party they have become and continue to embarrass themselves.
i mean, when you have party members agreeing to secede from the united states, you are definitely a part of the fringe. and beck thinks the rest of the media that isnt fox is fringe? please.
Methinks he meant South Carolina.
that makes me so angry, and it is another ironic statement coming from that nutjob. he claims there are "lunatics" in washington with special interests... what kind of interests does he think the teabaggers, birthers, deathers, and all those idiots have? their "special interest" is to get rid of barack obama as president. obviously, they have a clear objective, but he obviously ignores all that.
and where exactly is the "special interest" in washington that he speaks of? getting american's more affordable healthcare? oh no, those evil liberals in washington trying to help people... how dare they?
and on top of all that, he baselessly calls THEM "lunatics" when all those teabaggers, birthers and deathers are the real lunatics holding up their racist signs and just yelling socialist, communist, marxist, facist when they have no idea what it means. and its sad that the woman appreciates fear, and proudly points out that fear gins up anger. this is what our country has come to.
this guy seriously has to go... he is ginning up so much fake anger and hysteria and the most idiotic, uneducated people are buying into it. his popularity (and fox's) absolutely disgusts me because it is so misleading and is based on rank propaganda and fake anger tactics. and these people STILL believe that fox shows both sides.
by the way, that fringe media claim is downright ridiculous. so what, now beck wants to consider fox news as the mainstream media? all this time they hated it and characterized all the other networks that way, but now that they want to be it, its a good thing? see this is the kind of spinning and manipulating they do... they convince people they are something that they arent just to gain more support in their endless cause of "taking over" the government. we need to fight back against this stuff... its disingenuous and getting out of control.
http://watchdog.net/contrib/06540/tania_beck?key=0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7620213558757557315&hl=en#
Sounds eerily similar to Beck.