You always had to wonder where Fox News came from. We had never seen anything like it before... on American shores at least. Here was this network dedicated to tearing down a political party and a President and spewing lies and half truths and outright fabrications as news to the public at large. And there was a clear political agenda. Right wing, Conservative, Christian, Republican...Murdocian. And so the question was how did something like Fox News come to be? It was almost like an alien had dropped them off and then left. Now we know. An alien did drop Fox News on our shores. An alien named Murdoch.
And now with his gonads in a sling we see how it all played out. Fox News is just the American version of Murdoch culture. He is the Citizen Kane for our time. He is the William Randolf Hearst with a cyber twist and far more nefarious because of his far reaching power. We are finding out he was running Britain for some time and he has been working on the United States through his surrogates...the biggest one being Fox News. The absolute hate and chicanery that spews out of Fox News is in line with what we are now finding out about Murdoch Standard Operating Procedure.
Defame. Distort. Discredit. Use any means at your disposal. But have your will rule the day. Is anyone surprised we now have people like Andrew Brightbart? He is merely a tadpole spawned by Murdoch lackeys. And so the giant will have his day in court and we will see what falls out of the attic as they root through the dusty old boxes of Murdoch conquests. And now we know. Fox News is not some aberrant rogue news organization that just hatched itself. Fox News was brought here as a bastard child and dropped on our shores to grow up into the creature of hate we now have.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Good Night and Good Luck-Olbermann Leaves MSNBC
Edward R. Murrow who Keith Olbermann obviously modeled himself after said these words every time he signed off from his broadcast. Good Night and Good Luck. It is irony at it's best, but Murrow meant it. He wanted people to have the luck it would take to fight the corporate powers, government, the natural tyranny of men. His job was to poke holes in these forces and shine light into the dark corners of human chicanery. He eventually took on McCarthy in the darkest days of the House on Un-American Activities and did what no man in the news had done up to that point--he took on the underside of American democracy that destroys people while hiding under the flag.
Now Mr. Olbermann has left MSNBC for reasons unknown, but we can guess. If you watched Keith at all he was the one of the few who took on the dark side of American politics and American business. He was the underdogs dog and barked at anyone who came near. Many times he slipped into bombast and of course his show was hopelessly one sided with his triumvirate of Chris Hayes, Howard Fineman, and Eugene Reynolds to comment and mostly back up Keith's latest thesis. As time wore on Keith did become predictable, but he was always heartfelt and always unafraid.
Sometimes we cringed when he really got on a roll, but like a good novel you had to listen closely to the prose. Keith was a thinking man's liberal cable show. He was no slouch when it came to mixing history, liberal theology, and politics, throw in the Olbermann anger and indignation and you had a cocktail of talk show bravado that could knock your socks off and many times did. Sometimes, you just wanted to stand up and cheer when he finished his Final Comment.
But he has left the network and we don't know where he will land. Keith did what Maddow and now Lawrence O'Donnel can't. He did have an Edward R. Murrow touch that had a moral indignance and gravitas that lent credibility to his charges against the nightly villains. Keith Olbermann does care about people and he does want to be the voice of those who cannot defend themselves. And so when he signed off with his customary Good Night and Good Luck at the end of his show, he said, look I know the cards are stacked, but le'ts keep trying anyway. We can only hope he lands somewhere and continues the fight. So back at you Keith.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
http://www.billhazelgrove.com/
Rocket Man will Blast off in April.
Now Mr. Olbermann has left MSNBC for reasons unknown, but we can guess. If you watched Keith at all he was the one of the few who took on the dark side of American politics and American business. He was the underdogs dog and barked at anyone who came near. Many times he slipped into bombast and of course his show was hopelessly one sided with his triumvirate of Chris Hayes, Howard Fineman, and Eugene Reynolds to comment and mostly back up Keith's latest thesis. As time wore on Keith did become predictable, but he was always heartfelt and always unafraid.
Sometimes we cringed when he really got on a roll, but like a good novel you had to listen closely to the prose. Keith was a thinking man's liberal cable show. He was no slouch when it came to mixing history, liberal theology, and politics, throw in the Olbermann anger and indignation and you had a cocktail of talk show bravado that could knock your socks off and many times did. Sometimes, you just wanted to stand up and cheer when he finished his Final Comment.
But he has left the network and we don't know where he will land. Keith did what Maddow and now Lawrence O'Donnel can't. He did have an Edward R. Murrow touch that had a moral indignance and gravitas that lent credibility to his charges against the nightly villains. Keith Olbermann does care about people and he does want to be the voice of those who cannot defend themselves. And so when he signed off with his customary Good Night and Good Luck at the end of his show, he said, look I know the cards are stacked, but le'ts keep trying anyway. We can only hope he lands somewhere and continues the fight. So back at you Keith.
Good Night, and Good Luck.
http://www.billhazelgrove.com/
Rocket Man will Blast off in April.
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