This week, in their latest attempt to create a Republican talking point out of clean air, Fox News released the results of a poll that proved Democrats hate America. You may have read about it. The question they asked was this: "Do you want President Bush to succeed?" Of course, it's a ridiculously flawed question, and they know it. This is the latest example of Fox masquerading as an objective journalistic enterprise, while subtly helping to maintain the divisive atmosphere that keeps Bush and Co. in business.
They know that anyone hearing the question can interpret it one of two ways:
1) Do I want Bush to keep doing what he's doing to the country and to get what he wants--tax breaks for the rich, welfare for large corporations, blending of church and state, suppression of dissent, elimination of Constitutional checks on presidential power, a terrified populace, and a one-party state?
2) Do I want Bush to do a good job, to start being an honest, effective, responsible, competent President, thereby helping our country be a more just, fair, and safe place?
Obviously, the answer depends on how you interpret the question. Turns out a little more than half (51%) of Democrats heard question #1. That's all the R's needed to rehash their favorite equation: Bush=America; those who disagree with Bush are against America; Democrats hate America.
We shouldn't get upset because the Republican Party has a media arm to spin out their propaganda. They have the money and power, why wouldn't they? It's smart politics, and it's served them well. What we need to expose is their fundamental dishonesty in pretending to be something they are not--specifically, a legitimate news organization. Journalists seek information and report facts, occasionally creating genuine controversy. Propagandists suppress information, invent "facts," and manufacture outrage.
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