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Fascism and fundamentalism

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Fascism and fundamentalism

” In the Christian world, the trend is much less pronounced but still present. It exists in the increasing identification of mainstream fundamentalism with its more radical components, particularly the anti-abortion and anti-gay rights extremists. It is latent in the openly theocratic approach to governance propounded by Christian Reconstructionists and neoconservative moralists like Antonin Scalia.

And it has gained a popular voice in the violently eliminationist rhetoric increasingly aimed at liberals, particularly those opposed to President Bush’s war policies, much of it inflamed by conservative propagandists on talk radio like Rush Limbaugh.”

Scary stuff. Read the whole thing, as they say.

[via Orcinus]

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News? Or Propaganda?

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“Bush Lands on Aircraft Carrier” is the headline of this Washington Post story. From the first paragraph:

President Bush has landed on board a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Pacific, where he will mark the end of major military operations in a prime-time television address.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s almost an Onion headline.

The sad thing is, Drudge actually links to this story with the headline “Top Gun”. This is textbook, Chinese-style propaganda. Mind-boggling.

Pearl Jam Walkouts: Who Cares?

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Last night in Denver at the Pepsi Center, “dozens” of concert attendees walked out of a Pearl Jam concert, supposedly because Eddie Vedder was critical of Bush.

InstaPundit, always up for making mountains out of molehills, states “Eddie Vedder, meanwhile, is finding that anti-Bush theatrics turn off fans”.
A few points:

  1. “Dozens of fans” walked out of a venue that holds 20,000 people. Let’s say, for arguments sake, that those dozen(s) were, 5 dozen. 60 people. Now let’s assume that the Pearl Jam concert didn’t sell out, making attendance somewhere around 15,000. Maybe InstaPundit would be more accurate in saying “Eddie Vedder finds out anti-Bush theatrics turn off 0.025% of fans in attendance.” Then again, we all know that Glenn is not the biggest stickler for accuracy.
  2. Interesting that they chose to “walk out” during the encore. Guess they weren’t that turned off.

UPDATE: Looks like Pearl Jam are making pretty much the same point.