We All Blew It
This was a lynch mob and, when it started forming a month ago, we didn't take it seriously enough. When I saw the first Glenn Beck piece on Van Jones and the Apollo Alliance as the new vast left-wing conspiracy, I could not take it seriously. Silence enabled Fox to keep pushing. The statements for which Jones apologized -- the reference to the right as "assholes" and saying that Bush was talking "like a crack-head" were such ordinary political discourse -- ... Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Technorati, Memeorandum
I refer people to a Bill Moyers broadcast of several months ago in which he played pieces from various right wing commentators - and it was scary. These people are getting air time and other people, lots of them, are believing them. Look at the town hall forums on health care.