mocachapeau
Dagobah Resident
I just had a thought. I hope I can express this properly.
Twice I have shared this video on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150282977517626
As I noted when I shared it, it is very funny and at the same time quite disturbing. Hearing people on Fox News talking about the poor in such a disparaging way is very ugly, and the idea of taxing households of four that are living on $22,350 a year or less, is inhumane. I was appalled, disgusted, shocked - angry.
Tonight I had a certain image etched in my mind of the guy near the end of the video (Neal Boortz, I think) saying, "It is all-out war on the productive class in our society for the benefit of the moocher class". His face, the expression of anger on it, just looked so, I don't know... extreme. It was almost surreal to hear and see someone uttering that sentence with such vehemence, like it was just an impossibility for ANYONE to say something like that and not be totally aware of how wrong it is. And people referring to the poor as animals? It felt like they were going out of their way to express their views in the most offensive way possible. Like it was just a big, exaggerated show, an act of some kind. But who is this act meant for?
The people that watch Fox News are generally the people that already agree with that kind of crap - ultra-conservative, right-wing, rich people. But who watches John Stewart's Daily Show? Everybody else, which probably includes a large portion of the poor.
John Stewart makes millions of dollars by attacking Fox News every chance he is given (that turns out to be quite often). And every time he does, he shows video clips of Fox News and what they are saying. As he laughs at them, he is also spreading their message to the community of people that would otherwise not hear it.
In a time where the PTB are going to great lengths to stir up anger and violence in the poorer communities around the world, we know that scenes like the Tottenham riots will soon be hitting the US. Wouldn't a piece like the one above help that to happen? I mean, if Fox wants to express their views in such an overtly insulting manner, how is it going to stir up anger in the poorer communities if those communities aren't listening to them? So what better way to get their volatile comments out to the poor than by having a John Stewart do it for them?
I get the impression that this is part of the Fox News agenda, and that John Stewart is like an unwitting, useful tool for the PTB. Raising people's awareness is good, but I just got a really weird feeling about this one.
Does this make any sense?
Twice I have shared this video on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150282977517626
As I noted when I shared it, it is very funny and at the same time quite disturbing. Hearing people on Fox News talking about the poor in such a disparaging way is very ugly, and the idea of taxing households of four that are living on $22,350 a year or less, is inhumane. I was appalled, disgusted, shocked - angry.
Tonight I had a certain image etched in my mind of the guy near the end of the video (Neal Boortz, I think) saying, "It is all-out war on the productive class in our society for the benefit of the moocher class". His face, the expression of anger on it, just looked so, I don't know... extreme. It was almost surreal to hear and see someone uttering that sentence with such vehemence, like it was just an impossibility for ANYONE to say something like that and not be totally aware of how wrong it is. And people referring to the poor as animals? It felt like they were going out of their way to express their views in the most offensive way possible. Like it was just a big, exaggerated show, an act of some kind. But who is this act meant for?
The people that watch Fox News are generally the people that already agree with that kind of crap - ultra-conservative, right-wing, rich people. But who watches John Stewart's Daily Show? Everybody else, which probably includes a large portion of the poor.
John Stewart makes millions of dollars by attacking Fox News every chance he is given (that turns out to be quite often). And every time he does, he shows video clips of Fox News and what they are saying. As he laughs at them, he is also spreading their message to the community of people that would otherwise not hear it.
In a time where the PTB are going to great lengths to stir up anger and violence in the poorer communities around the world, we know that scenes like the Tottenham riots will soon be hitting the US. Wouldn't a piece like the one above help that to happen? I mean, if Fox wants to express their views in such an overtly insulting manner, how is it going to stir up anger in the poorer communities if those communities aren't listening to them? So what better way to get their volatile comments out to the poor than by having a John Stewart do it for them?
I get the impression that this is part of the Fox News agenda, and that John Stewart is like an unwitting, useful tool for the PTB. Raising people's awareness is good, but I just got a really weird feeling about this one.
Does this make any sense?
