Thank God we have ever-vigilant watchdog organizations that exist solely to save the benighted masses from themselves! I mean, if people are so stupid that they actually watch Fox News, then obviously they are physically and mentally incapable of getting information from the “approved” sources. Hell, they probably can’t even muster the strength to pick the remote control up off of their beer-bloated bellies to switch over to the correct points of view, and even if they could, the damn hillbillies probably don’t even know how to read the button labels on “that thar switchy thang.”
Oh save us from ourselves, noble Media Matters! The nation cries out for your thin-skinned yet overbearing thought policing! Because there’s nothing more dangerous than people who might actually choose to hear different viewpoints, you know? Of course, I’m using “choose” in the ironic hipster sense of the word, because everyone knows that the mushy-headed sheeple who watch Fox have all been hypnotized into doing so by Brett Baier’s even, white teeth.
The puritanical impulse is still alive and well in America, it seems. And its new bff is the fascistic impulse – and they are both living it up on George Soros’ dime.
March 29, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Progressiveism has always been puritanism in drag. Massachusetts went from ‘banned in Boston’ to ‘bussed for balance’ in a generation because it was really no change at all.
In the puritan practice of forcing idle sinners to lives of virtue, only the meaning of ‘virtue’ changes.
March 29, 2011 at 9:29 pm
Drat. “Progressivism.”