Davids Medienkritik: SPIEGEL ONLINE: Dissent is no longer patriotic in America... »
Posted By Klarissa 3 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsFor the past eight years, left-wing commentators and media such as Keith Olberman, Rachel Maddow, Daily Kos and the Huffington Post railed virtually non-stop against President Bush and Republicans. Night after night they blasted conservatives as fascist war-mongers and law-breakers....
Now that Democrats are in power, however, Marc Pitzke has suddenly identified great danger in outlandish and outspoken media personalities who dare oppose the authorities. In fact, one of his more recent articles is entitled "Right-Wing Polemicists: The Revolution is Coming!" According to SPIEGEL's (on) crack reporter, pundits like Glenn Beck of Fox News, radio host Mark Levin, and actor/blogger Chuck Norris are at the head of a dangerous and increasingly "militant" right-wing movement with close ideological associations to the militias. This despite the fact that they are criticizing the powers-that-be using essentially the same approach employed by Olberman, Maddow and Arianna Huffington for years. (Apparently, outspoken dissent is not patriotic, noble, or courageous when carried out by non-leftists...)
Pitzke goes on to crudely characterize the tea party movement as a phenomenon of the far-right.
What he fails to mention is that not only Republicans, but many Democrats and Independents question the wisdom of trillion dollar budgets likely to burden future generations with mountains of debt.
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Klarissa3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Marc Pitzke to German Readers: Trust U.S. Homeland Security
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And what proof does Pitzke offer to convince readers that the threat posed by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News is real? The heavily criticized Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing radicalism. Of course Pitzke completely fails to mention that the report was widely panned, that the Obama administration immediately distanced itself from the paper, or that DHS Secretary Napolitano called the report "not worthy" and said it "should never have been released" - as reported by the Washington Post:
“The report was not worthy of this department, or of veterans,” Napolitano said to Rehbein, according Legion spokesman Craig Roberts, who attended the meeting. "It was very badly written and should never have been released," she said."
But that doesn't stop Pitzke from using the report as evidence. (And by the way: Since when has SPIEGEL ONLINE accepted the United States government as a reliable source?)
To top it all off, and ensure that German readers get really scared, Pitzke mentions that Americans are buying more guns. Right-wing cowboy bastards...
Here again, Pitzke and SPIEGEL are making their own bias and lack of journalistic professionalism rather obvious to those willing to take a slightly closer look.
When Democrats go out on a limb and bash the opposition it is justified and noble, when Republicans do it - it is dangerous, militant, and a grave threat to society.-
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Dissent is fine, lying, swiftboating and outright ignorance, promotion of superstition, insanity, warprofiteering, and thuggery for the rich for the rich by the rich by racist morons is not OK.
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The repugs have nominated Caribu Barbie as the person most capable of leadership through repug caused economic collapse, repug wars of choise for war profiteering and petroleum energy policy benifiting petroleum industry and nothing else.
Enviornmental disaster defended in the name of greed and profit, destroying the planet.
These are the policys of the repugs, that and promoting insurance monopoly as health care, for the profit and benifit of insurance monopoly, as if slavery is freedom and bankrupting the middle class is liberty.
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mesodude3 months, 2 weeks ago
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"And what proof does Pitzke offer to convince readers that the threat posed by Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Fox News is real?"
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--Klarissa, you're barking up the wrong tree (again). The questions you should be asking are, where was criticism from the right and what proof did cons need when Bush released reports (on which the Obama administration reports were largely based) saying virtually the same things regarding extremist groups? And the report wasn't "heavily" or "widely" criticized. It was slammed by the far right (try to remember you aren't the world) and the Obama administration didn't have a problem with the substance of the report bur rather the way it was worded. Stop exaggerating.
"Here again, Pitzke and SPIEGEL are making their own bias and lack of journalistic professionalism rather obvious to those willing to take a slightly closer look."
--Klarissa, I'm sorry but you really are the absolute last person on earth who should be railing against "bias and lack of journalistic profession." You're one of the least educated "educators" I've ever encountered anywhere. You cannot possibly be serious. ;-P
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Striker1013 months, 2 weeks ago
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I guess author thinks that freedom is a right-wing thing. Well it's a shame that freedom has fallen so low on the totem poll as to have become less important than the priority rush into communism.
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Annie, git yer gun! Let's us'n go fix this dad-burn "society".-
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antibrainwasher3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Exactly. Freedom, as defined by repugs, is the freedom of Bernie Madoff to take advantage of unregulated insanity to steal billions, Freedom of Stanford to ponzi billions, freedom of insurance monopoly to rape and bankrupt the middle class to pay their CEOs billions by denying claims, freedom to burn the consitiution to order torture and start wars for zionism and war profiteering, sending thousands to their death for big oil and Israel.
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Trashing the consitiution in favoer of theocracy, stuffing superstitious solgans of their evangelical religion down the throats of americans, as if white baby jesus wants its name on our money, that and insisting a slogan, "under god", invented in 1950, is somehow consititutional and patriotic when brainwashing children with the pledge.
Legislating agaist hundreds of years of law, agaist the husband of the brain dead Terry Shivo to decide to pull the plug as she would have wanted, politicizing the freaking justice department with evangelical hacks from Liaberty University, promoting creationism as a freak alternative to science, to be forced into the gullible minds of generations of americans as we lose to china and india the edge in research, and become a laughing stock for the civilized world.
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mesodude3 months, 2 weeks ago
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"I guess author thinks that freedom is a right-wing thing. Well it's a shame that freedom has fallen so low on the totem poll as to have become less important than the priority rush into communism."
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--Whatever...When I or anyone I know raised objections to any aspect of our involvement in Iraq or the criminal and questionable activities of Bush and Cheney during the past 8 years, I seem to remember that cons (many of whom were sacrificing nothing whatsoever) introduced us to charming phrases like "cut and run" and "wave the white flag of surrender" etc. In fact, you people thought dissent was anything but patriotic when you were cheerleading for Bush's war in Iraq. Why have those of you on the right suddenly changed your tune? Thanks. -
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ConquerorWyrm3 months, 2 weeks ago
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I seem to remember 8 years of hyper-patriotism recently. I remember hearing Limbaugh on the air in the 80's and the Radio domination of the 90's. I remember very strongly as well because to even be accused of not liking the Republican President at the time was to invite some doofas with a cheap slogan printed in red-white & blue on his hat to get in your face and scream some version of "I wish you AmeriKa haters would just get the hell out of here. If you love Saddam so much, why don't you move to Iraq!" I got this treatment one late night as I sat in a Denny's with a copy of a speech W had made. I had been working and had missed it and wanted to read it. Some guy at the table next to mine asked me what I was reading. I said "It's a copy of Bush's speech tonight." Above was his response...just because I had a copy of the speech and was reading it!
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Oh, for ever so long has the Republican Party sanctioned and encouraged decrying those who oppose them to be un-American. It is a cherished art form within that community. What is shocking is, all the while they are now weeping and wailing and with great pretense pretending to now cry that they are being done to as they themselves do to others with such golden relish. The funny/sad part of it is that while they are claiming the Dems are calling them un-American, they are doing the most un-American thing possible...they are attempting to deny the Constitutionally mandated transfer of power and playing excessive on the old rhetoric.
Me? I've been calling it like it is for some time now...Republicans! If you hate America so much, why don't you leave! -
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mesodude3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Klarissa, one question for you: Where was neocon concern about protecting dissent during the 8 years Bush and his blindly partisan suppoters were slamming, smearing, ridiculing, firing, ostracizing, and labeling as traitors and cowards anyone who said a discouraging word about Iraq or suggested it was a bad idea? Thanks.
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icono13 months, 2 weeks ago
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.----- Howard Zinn
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"Men in authority will always think that
criticism of their policies is dangerous.
They will always equate their policies
with patriotism, and find criticism subversive."
-------Henry Steele Commanger 1902-1998 Historian and Author
"The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as, from 1933 onward, 'political criminality' was given a much broader definition than ever before and most forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more 'laws' or lawlike measures wereput on the books than ever."---- Shelia Fitzpatrick
Source: Accusatory Practices: Denunciation in Modern European History, 1789-1989, 1997 -
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icono13 months, 2 weeks ago
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"It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."---------Eric Hoffer
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(1902-1983) American author, philosopher, awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom -
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icono13 months, 2 weeks ago
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"The Tenth Commandment sends a message
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to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 -- to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed.And that message is clear and concise:
Go to Hell."-------P. J. O'Rourke
(1947- ) US humorist, journalist, & political commentator
The 10 Commandment from;
http://www.apostolic.edu/biblestudy/files/10th-com...
By M.G.Blankenship
"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's."
COVETNESS = "is when DESIRE becomes INORDINATE or UNLAWFUL"
It's NOT WRONG for a man to desire a HOUSE, WIFE, CAR, PET, JOB etc... But it's wrong to desire your neighbors... house, wife etc...
THIS LEVEL OF DESIRE PLANTS THE SEEDS OF WILLINGNESS TO: hurt, steal, kill Coveting it desire run rampant w/o control.
It will injure, hurt, even destroy to get what it wants!
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