This week, the devil has come to Pebble Beach and is bringing with him a lot of important 'Democrats' to present the 'future' to key executives of News Corp.
What the hell is wrong with this picture?
Rupert Murdoch is a very powerful man. So powerful, it appears, that he is able to affect the hearts and minds of the very people savaged unmercifully by his Fox News minions over the past decade. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm having a hell of a time getting my mind around this.
Its big news around here. Lots of high flyers jetting in to make presentations to the very folks who bring you O'Reilly, Hannity, Hume and a host of other rabid wingnuts whose greatest pleasure seems to be beating the living shit out of their political opponents while propagating the most scurrilous disinformation campaigns concocted by the present administration.
So effective are these guys, and so broad and pervasive their media reach, that boy George and Co. managed to keep elections close enough to steal in key states. The Republican right has been able to use Fox's high-profile, high saturation market presence as its own private propaganda machine in support of its agenda, whether it be for the war, judicial appointments, and the 'culture wars' with a particular brand of hate speech that seems to have resonated in Red State America.
And while I certainly understand that money and power make for strange bedfellows, I really have a hard time understanding particulaly how Mr. and Mrs. Clinton can show up after the way they were treated by Rupert's hatchet men and women on the airwaves? For that matter, how can any 'progressive' lend his or her name to this man's exercise in hubris? Why should any reasonable person accept an offer to 'enlighten' News Corp. executives on their views of the future?
I can understand Gore's mission--perhaps he can influence the executives' views on global warming. I can understand Bill wanting to get a round in at Pebble. I can understand Hillary being a whore for publicity/money in support of her blond ambition, but I can't connect integrity to any of this
Maybe that's my problem. Maybe integrity has nothing to do with any of this.
Some may say its all 'in the game.' Tell that to those who believed the administration's lies, bought Fox's spin on the world, went to Iraq, and either came back changed, or didn't make it back at all. Some game.