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The GOP and the larger right wing in general have been building this for decades. I mean, Birchers? Hello? Heck, there’s a major cable channel seeming dedicated to non stop mainstreaming of right wing conspiracy theories. Hey, it’s just the market, right? Freedom of speech and all that.
You can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding. My guess is that this can only end in tears.
WRT the larger issue, “That large chunks of the electorate can be so difficult to persuade on such a simple topic makes it easier to understand why we cannot come to reasonable consensus on fiscal policy”, it also seems clear that the reason is that the media – the venerable 4th estate – have clearly decided that informing is not part of their job. The birtherism meme is merely a symptom of the larger problem. The media simply decided that the were merely conduits of factesque content, and it was not their responsibility to pass judgement on said content.
Consequently, we had the surreal case of the NPR ombudsman (public radio, that liberal hotbed) arguing that she couldn’t possibly call water boarding torture because a political party was defining torture in a different way. Thus, no judgement could – and should – be made.
Welcome to the end times. Here’s you’re accordion.
Comment by Hal — Tuesday, February 15, 2024 @ 1:07 pm
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I’d quibble over the size of the sample but it would be just that. Would say these are the Crazy Years, but how many believed that either Al Smith or Kennedy would install the Pope in the White House? Then there’s Trig Palin’s questioned maternity and so on.
Comment by waltm — Wednesday, February 16, 2024 @ 3:18 pm
@Hal:
I must confess, I do think that right-wing oriented media is doing a substantial disservice.
@walt:
It just strikes me as a depressingly large number.
Comment by Steven L. Taylor — Wednesday, February 16, 2024 @ 3:24 pm