The Body Politic USA

Never mind that the Tea Party has no idea about what the real Boston Tea Party was about.  Forget about the fact that almost all members of the Tea Party  have benefited from portion of our social contract that they call “socialism”.   If they enjoyed paved roads and indoor plumbing through a public provider - they are sucking on the government teat - even if they don’t understand that they are.   The Tea Party and the radical right share an ideology that is almost completely fact-free.

You are not entitled to your own facts….

Trying to get any kind of common sense through that wall is impossible.  Its as if people living in the Fox News Bubble have all bought a top-of-the-line “white noise” machine that selectively blocks out any and all  facts.   Daniel Patrick Moynihan  was fond of pointing out “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.”   These days the latter does not appear to be true.  We are inundated political pablum  on the right that appears to be 100% fact free. Junk science abounds - with political operatives filled to the brim with all the pseudo-science the oil and gas companies  could possibly provide…

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No Hard Questions Please!

Sharron Angle, candidate for Senate in Nevada- thought she had it all figured out. The press was there to push her agenda - no more, no less.
The press wasn’t  there to ask tough questions, they weren’t there to create transparency or call candidates out on blatant lies and contradictions.  God forbid a candidate should have to THINK while being interviewed.  Nopers - the press was simply to be an extension of her Facebook image.  Reporters were there to offer her free access to short and sweet soundbites that would augment the message that was already being spread far and wide with the  wads of money from fat campaign purses.

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