Comments on: The Paranoid Style In American Politics http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/16/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:30:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Quaker in a Basement http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/16/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/#comment-77498 Quaker in a Basement Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:35:35 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6515#comment-77498 Did the Quaker call it? <a href="http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/it_figures.html#comment-66455360" rel="nofollow">Yes, he did!</a> Did the Quaker call it?

Yes, he did!

]]> By: Quaker in a Basement http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/16/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/#comment-77497 Quaker in a Basement Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:27:23 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6515#comment-77497 I knew it!! The <em>Clinton machine</em> did him in! But I thought the Clinton machine usually murdered people. Why do you suppose they let Imus off so easy? I knew it!! The Clinton machine did him in!

But I thought the Clinton machine usually murdered people. Why do you suppose they let Imus off so easy?

]]> By: jerry http://www.oliverwillis.com/2007/04/16/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/#comment-77496 jerry Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:02:36 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=6515#comment-77496 Interesting. That conspiracy theory seems to be exactly the current talking point Althouse is pushing. <a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/04/there-was-risqu-sexually-offensive.html" rel="nofollow">Media Matters took down Imus the liberal because they couldn't contain him during 2008.</a> <i>That is, Media Matters had been lying in wait for a long time, and finally they got exactly the sound bite they needed, and they played it masterfully. Think about why things fell into place so well and why so many people fell in line and took down this idiosyncratic character, who had been talking on the radio four hours a day, five days a week for so long. Who knows what havoc he might have wreaked in the 2008 campaign? Isn't it convenient to have him out of the way?</i> Interesting. That conspiracy theory seems to be exactly the current talking point Althouse is pushing. Media Matters took down Imus the liberal because they couldn’t contain him during 2008.

That is, Media Matters had been lying in wait for a long time, and finally they got exactly the sound bite they needed, and they played it masterfully. Think about why things fell into place so well and why so many people fell in line and took down this idiosyncratic character, who had been talking on the radio four hours a day, five days a week for so long. Who knows what havoc he might have wreaked in the 2008 campaign? Isn’t it convenient to have him out of the way?

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