Tentacles of Rage-The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history

[realFedUp]

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Republican-Propaganda1sep04.htm

Tentacles of Rage
The Republican propaganda mill, a brief history
LEWIS H LAPHAM / Harpers Magazine v.309, n.1852, September 2004 1sep04

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The effort had taken many forms—the publication of expensively purchased and cleverly promoted tracts (Milton Friedman's Free to Choose, Charles Murray's Losing Ground, Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations), a steady flow of newsletters from more than 100 captive printing presses (among them those at The Heritage Foundation, Accuracy in the Media, the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for the Study of Popular Culture), generous distributions of academic programs and visiting professorships (to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford universities), the passing along of sound-bite slanders (to Bill O'Reilly and Matt Drudge), the formulation of newspaper op-ed pieces (for the San Antonio Light and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as well as for the Sacramento Bee and the Washington Times). The prolonged siege of words had proved so successful in its result that on nearly every question of foreign or domestic policy in this year's presidential campaign, the frame and terms of the debate might as well have been assembled in Taiwan by Chinese child labor working from patterns furnished by the authors of ExxonMobil's annual report.

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[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. Fantastic article

I love the part where he says that after reading tons of neo-con writing, the only common thread he can find is that rich people need more money.

[CHIMO]

2. Good Article

For quiet time reading on a Sunday afternoon.
From John K. Galbraith to last week.

[grasswire]

3. thanks so much for posting this

I have been meaning to stop at a news stand to get this issue, and forgot.

Thanks, thanks.

[VioletLake]

4. Thanks for the link

It's a must-read (and a must-never-forget).