Don’t Fox with Me

 

There seems to be some question about whether we live in a polarized society or not. Saying yes is the vitriol that is flying from left and right. Saying no is the fact that most people are in the middle, not very happy about either Bush or Kerry. I’m having trouble buying this latter argument, perhaps because the deceit and viciousness coming from the right...wing, that is.

When I raise this point with the people who were my friends in the wilds of northern California, they shoot back that I regularly eviscerate Bush-Lite and his cohorts. In fact, I’m kinda restrained considering the venality, corruption and depravity that have characterized these people throughout their careers. Of course, the folks in Redding don’t share that view.

One of them passed along a screed that offered, "If you thought John Kerry was scary, he doesn't hold a candle to his wife!" It went on to trash Teresa Heinz Kerry with a venom that had previously had been reserved for only such national enemies as Saddam Hussein.

The anger is mindless, fomented by their remarkably, dangerously narrow thinking coaxed further into ugly darkness by the Rovian propaganda machine, abetted by the media wing-nuts who have given up all pretense of truth.

They call Kerry a traitor, shamelessly falsifying his war record, and saying he wasn’t a hero because the water from which he rescued one of his men was shallow. They ignore the treasonous lies that sent us to Iraq, the despoliation of our environment, the crippling deficit brought on by massive tax cuts for the wealthy and give-aways to corporate campaign contributors.

Wrote one of my friends, no doubt with good intentions, "But, really, you should enlighten yourself by watching Fox News....it might help you re-think this out."

Somehow, especially after having seen the documentary "Outfoxed" I don’t think it would help.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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