Pentagon defiant: Military network will continue to air Rush

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10. Rush is a pimp for those interested in scapegoating what one dislikes in one's self by ascribing

or transferring that problem to others, with the enthusiastic support and emotional and social rewards provided by hate-speakers like RL.

It's a defense mechanism the function of which is to deal with stresses that arise from dissonance, one class of which dissonance arises from the fact that people almost always ascribe the faults/weaknesses/inconsistencies of others to their/others' permanent bad-traits and they ascribe their own faults/weaknesses/inconsistencies to temporary situational features that have nothing to do with themselves intrinsically.

Since the truth is, by definition, inevitable, the truth about one's own faults/weaknesses/inconsistencies never disappears just because we lie to ourselves about that stuff. These truths create stress/tension/insecurity (because a more coherent self-concept is necessary to survival), so they must be dealt with somehow. One of the most primitive ways of relieving the stress, temporarily, is to find a scapegoat, one that is shared by as many others as possible is an especially rewarding/reinforcing scapegoat. Corporate fascist-media uses dynamics like this to build audiences (listeners, viewers, readers, e-clicks).