I hear Donald Trump is now a regular contributor to Fox News.
I was wondering if I could get a job with Fox if I tell them I want to be President. It seems to be a surefire method, with Huckabee, Palin, Santorum, and Gingrich all putting in their time with the “News” organization. Fox sure does seem to favor nutjobs.
Of course, I would have to change Party affiliations, and it wouldn’t hurt to adopt some very extreme positions. Perhaps if I screamed about abortion and Government spending, threw in some complaints about the gays and bitched about the 1/10th of 1% of the budget spent on NPR, I would probably have a job in no time.
Every time I hear about Fox employing one of the Rethug Presidential Wanna-bees I get a curious sensation that I’m witnessing a new level of Propaganda, even for Fox.
I get the impression that Rupert Murdoch is just dying to have one of his “Consultants” in the White House, and I wonder about his motivation. Does he just want private access to the President? His own room waiting for him in the East Wing? I just can’t help feeling that he is motivated by some weird impulse, like he just wants to have the President indebted to him for some reason.
Indeed, what is Murdoch’s motivation for running Fox at all? It certainly can’t be Journalistic excellence, that’s for sure. His open manipulation of Right Wing causes serves to enhance his bottom line I’m sure. But his Karmic deficits can hardly be worth it.
With Fox using Trump, and vice versa, we witness a new level of Crazy. Trump's latest birther-rants rival even Glen Beck and Michelle Bachman for Kookiness. It also puts Fox in a position where we can only presume that the Execs in charge are willing to say anything, do anything and employ anyone as long as they have something negative to say about President Obama.
They’re willing to throw any kind of excrement against the wall in hope that some of it sticks. While they know for sure that Trump will lose, what they’re doing will have long lasting cumulative effects. Hannity, Beck and Limbaugh have spent 2 complete years hurling shit, hours and hours each day. They hammer home a constant message-Obama’s bad, he can’t be trusted, he’s a socialist, he wasn’t born here, he’s weak on defense, he’s the Anointed One… the list goes on and on.
All of the shit that hits the wall and eventually adds up to a taint in people’s minds. In time, it develops into distrust, or a dislike, or even hatred. It is a recipe concocted by Fox that brews into a cocktail designed to discredit Obama and the Dems that has no basis in facts or political reality. It is simply a kind of emotional sabotage. It is a graffiti painted on the Dems that can’t be cleaned off, giving uninformed voters pause and trying to sway their votes. And it works. I’m sure of that.
I don’t really care that Trump is now a bona-fide Political Whore. I see it as another douche bag looking for continuing fame. It’s another immense ego doing what egos do best-pimping themselves. Might as well have the Kardashians or Lohans run.
I do care about all that shit hitting the wall and piling up. It causes a political stink that festers and ruins our politics and discourse. It demeans our Nation. There’s an entire network devoted, not to the truth, but to tiny little lies that add up and disgrace our country.
It just has to stop. And I see no way of stopping it.