The Party Is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted by Mike Lofgren

Author:Mike Lofgren [Lofgren, Mike]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Political Process, Political Science, Political Parties, Political Ideologies
ISBN: 9781101601235
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-08-02T00:00:00+00:00

The mainstream media’s toxic symbiosis with our two entrenched parties and the permanent shadow government have made it difficult for the average American to assemble an accurate and coherent picture of the world, much less make informed judgments about our foreign and national security policies or understand how America is perceived abroad. Rather than strive to be objective, our media personalities have become unofficial government representatives, particularly when foreign and national security policy are concerned. And when the war drums are beating, they are more like cheerleaders than objective reporters.

Tom Friedman, the New York Times’s wunderkind and resident Deep Thinker on globalization, is a marquee example of this syndrome. In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, Friedman acted with all the restraint and objectivity of the World War II Why We Fight series, albeit with fewer facts. Here he is in an interview justifying the invasion of Iraq, using the standard tough-guy language of the coddled and comfortable who never experience combat.

What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, um, and basically saying, “Which part of this sentence don’t you understand?” You don’t think, you know, we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we’re just gonna to let it grow? Well, Suck. On. This.…We could have hit Saudi Arabia. It was part of that bubble. Could have hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could. That’s the real truth.

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