09 NOV 2015 by ideonexus
Far-Right Rhetoric is Win-Win
As for those in the widening world of conservative media, for all of their complaints about the establishment, they are only too happy to acknowledge their influence in shaping the political agenda. “I don’t think conservative media is shaping it as much as it would like to, but it’s shaping it more than Washington would like it to,” said Deace. “I don’t think it’s moving fast enough for conservatives like myself, but it is clearly dragging the Republicans along, kicking and scr...Folksonomies: politics
Folksonomies: politics
11 JAN 2011 by ideonexus
FDR Defends His Dog
These Republican leaders have not been content with attacks on me, or my wife, or on my sons. No, not content with that, they now include my little dog, Fala. Well, of course, I don’t resent attacks, and my family doesn’t resent attacks, but Fala does resent them. You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back ...Something to consider in the history of heated political rhetoric is this passage by FDR in 1944, which invokes some of the heated silliness we tend to think only applies to our modern political culture.