Reality has a known left-wing bias

[elfs]

Does anyone see the difference I see here? In an article on how Roger Ailes is managing the blow-up of Beck, the paltryness of his hand-picked candidates for president, and greying of the Fox News audience, I saw this quote:

"For a while, if you pointed a camera at the news, Fox's ratings went up," a person close to Ailes explained. "There was the Florida recount, Bush v. Gore, 9/11, the 2004 election—until Katrina. Then the audience was kind of like, 'This is bad for the home team.'"

Note the difference there. Everything in the first list either demanded a military response or was a manufactroversy (although Bush v. Gore was a manufactroversy with debilitating consequences); Katrina is a nasty intrusion of callous reality into the daily lives of human beings. There was no one to attack. There was only humanitarian need.

This is a diamond illustration of the right-wing ideology. Humanitarian needs are irrelevant to the New American Century. Without someone to attack, the toolset of the right-wing mind is left without anything to grasp.

Notice that nobody's complained about FEMA under Obama? Apparently, it's been an effective, fast-moving, responsive agency in the hands of people who believe that government has role to play in the management of a nation.

This is unfortunate for Obama. As a friend of mine is fond of saying, "When you've done your job well, people think you've done nothing at all."

Comments

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Not just humanitarian - any human need is irrelevant in the fend-for-yourself-or-die world of the neocons, with their New American Century that is set to eliminate all humans that can't pay their own way.

Aside: I am never so grateful for my dictionary than when I respond to your posts.

[tehrasha.livejournal.com]

Notice that nobody's complained about FEMA under Obama? Apparently, it's been an effective, fast-moving, responsive agency in the hands of people who believe that government has role to play in the management of a nation.

Come to Iowa, where many are still fighting to get the money FEMA promised for recovery from the floods of 2008. Money that FEMA has since 're-evaluated' the need for.

[tagryn]

I'd also add, the governmental reaction to the Deepwater Horizon disaster will be a topic of discussion in the upcoming election. No one covered themselves in glory on that one, including FEMA.

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

I suppose it says something about me and my memory that I read the title of your post, and before I even noticed the actual content of the article, I started sniggering as I connected it with the posting you'd made in alt.sex years ago with all of the humorous double-entendres from the instructions for the Reality female condom...

"Do not tear Reality."
"You may notice that Reality moves around during sex."
"Some women have reported problems using Reality."