Frum: Republicans lied to by 'conservative entertainment complex'

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/frum-republicans-lied-to-by-conservative-entertainment-149120.html

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/11/frum-republicans-lied-to-by-conservative-entertainment-149120.html

the republican party has become the talk radio mouthpiece

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Most Republicans live in a vacuum slash echo chamber. There's many democrats who fit that description too methinks but not nearly as many as the former.

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"There's many democrats who fit that description"

evidence?, eg, a VLWC financing hate and propaganda media, TV, radio, books, bogus "universities", for decades to create a right-wing/Repug fantasy world?

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"There's many democrats who fit that description"

evidence?, eg, a VLWC financing hate and propaganda media, TV, radio, books, bogus "universities", for decades to create a right-wing/Repug fantasy world?

You're a fantastic example.

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You're a fantastic example.

EXACTLY!

By taking opposite positions of you right-wingers wandering around in your fantasy land and ecstatically bitch slapping you right-wing motherfuckers and your fantasies, I'm solidly grounded in reality and truth.

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EXACTLY!

So you agree you live life in a vacuum slash echo chamber.

I'm holding out hope for you yet.

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Frank Rich trashing the Repugs so thoroughy (and easily), as he always does:

Fantasyland

Denial has poisoned the GOP and threatens the rest of the country too.

Mitt Romney is already slithering into the mists of history, or at least La Jolla, gone and soon to be forgotten.

A weightless figure unloved and distrusted by even his own supporters, he was always destined, win or lose, to be a transitory front man for a radical-right GOP intent on barreling full-speed down the Randian path laid out by its true 2012 standard-bearer, Paul Ryan.

But as was said of another unsuccessful salesman who worked the New England territory, attention must be paid to Mitt as the door slams behind him in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s brilliant victory.

Though Romney has no political heirs in his own party or elsewhere, he does leave behind a cultural legacy of sorts. He raised Truthiness to a level of chutzpah beyond Stephen Colbert’s fertile imagination, and on the grandest scale.

That a presidential hopeful so cavalierly mendacious could get so close to the White House, winning some 48 percent of the popular vote, is no small accomplishment.

The American weakness that Romney both apotheosized and exploited in achieving this feat—our post-fact syndrome where anyone on the public stage can make up anything and usually get away with it—won’t disappear with him. A slicker liar could have won, and still might.

This year’s instantly famous declaration by the Romney pollster Neil Newhouse that “we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers” crystallized the mantra of the entire GOP. The Republican faithful at strata both low and high, from Rush’s dittoheads to the think-tank-affiliated intellectuals, have long since stopped acknowledging any empirical evidence that disputes their insular worldview, no matter how grounded that evidence might be in (God forbid) science or any other verifiable reality, like, say, Census reports or elementary mathematics.


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