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keep_left's JournalIt's basically the 2000s (aughts) version of "yuppie", but without quite as much venom...
...behind it. (At least when that term was used by Gen Xers, it was used in some pretty venomous--and deserved--ways). It appears that "Bobo", coined by Brooks, transformed over the years into other interchangeable monikers: "creative class", "meritocrats", "digital nomads", etc. Also see post #11. I believe the term is a contraction of "bohemian bourgeois".
What's pretty funny about this is the hypocrisy of so many of the culture warriors, who decry...
...the "moral degeneracy" of social liberalism while benefiting from it themselves. I mean, how many marriages did Gingrich and the late Limbaugh burn through?! And in the case of Gingrich, all those divorces came with a lot of philandering beforehand. And such behavior is of course not limited to those two; I can remember GOP culture warriors going back to the late '80s who had...interesting...personal lives. (The details tended to leak to the press at embarrassing and inopportune times).
Conservatives love to invert cause and effect, and the fact is that formal changes in the society (especially in the law) are so often post hoc revisions made long after major social revolutions have already occurred.
Yes, and that has become so common on Fox that there is a term for it.
I think it's called "weasel words": "people are saying", "some say", "it's just common sense", etc.
What makes it even worse is that Ingraham then agreed with Arroyo and added additional racism on top of his. 
Alice Cooper has always been a bit of a chud. Not the worst, to be sure, but...
...a chud nonetheless, always willing to sound off on controversial topics where it's clear he hasn't a clue what he's talking about. This latest bit of his isn't the first time, and it won't be the last.
What's that saying? Oh, yeah...
Wasn't it Raymond Arroyo of EWTN (radtrad Catholic network) who first floated...
...this moronic theory during a guest appearance on Laura Ingraham's show on Fox News?
It sounded familiar, and I checked...it was posted here last night: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218227078#post8
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218227078#post12
This is just another example of the "community equals communism" mentality...
...so common on the far-right. Anything "we" do is Marxist and must be destroyed, whether it's a library, a community center, public health, etc. Now we have united the current moral panic over "grooming" (or whatever the term du jour is) and the usual far-right antipathy toward anything seen as "collectivist". 
Rick Santorum wrote a book where this was the underlying theme: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217657261#post2
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217662110#post5
The "Beyond Vietnam" speech occasionally comes to the surface during extraordinary times.
I remember a column by Colman McCarthy many years ago where King was quoted extensively. This was at a time when there were numerous and near-simultaneous scandals: Iran-Contra and the related CIA-South Central drug traffic, Iraqgate, atrocities in Central America, etc. Without sounding too conspiratorial, any time the politicians can't keep a lid on all the scandals, it provides a little more freedom for "difficult" stories to break through. Nonetheless, I recall McCarthy being roundly pilloried by the usual reactionary media suspects.
You can hear parts of King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech in an episode of the X-Files, of all places. I looked it up; it's the seventh episode in the fourth season (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musings_of_a_Cigarette_Smoking_Man).
One interesting bit of trivia about "Beyond Vietnam": King delivered the speech at the Riverside Church in NYC on April 4, 1967, exactly one year to the day (and nearly to the hour) of his assassination on April 4. 1968.
Yes, (Ir)-Relevant Radio is probably an Opus Dei front. "Fr Rocky", their CEO, is...
...openly Opus Dei, as are more than a few of their on-air personalities and guests. There is (or was) some kind of financial relationship between RR and EWTN, but they seem to have hidden it pretty well. I do know that RR nearly went bankrupt a couple times, and they merged with another network (Immaculate Heart) in recent years due to financial problems at both networks. They are just as reactionary as EWTN.
The EWTN "news" programming may actually be worse than Fox.
The World Over, hosted by Raymond Arroyo, is an exclusive platform for far-right "think" tank shills and the most reactionary Church officials; in fact, I have never seen even a single exception to this trend. Fox News isn't really any better, but they occasionally let on a wishy-washy "leftist" (e.g. an Alan Colmes clone) to give the illusion of "balance" and then make sure they are outnumbered. And EWTN now has multiple "news" shows throughout the week, all cut from the same cloth as TWO.Garrison is notorious for depicting Trump in idealized guises. The latest version, ...
..."Trump as alpha frog", is not quite as flattering as some of Garrison's other work (except for the ridiculous "Trump swoop" hairstyle, which is pretty much a Garrison trademark at this point). 
Ben Garrison and Jon McNaughton are pretty much equally matched in the way that they nearly always portray Trump in various idealized scenarios--most commonly showing Trump in top physical condition (e.g. football player or other athlete). Trump comes off like Kim Jong Un in one of those North Korean propaganda posters.
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