Imagine G.W. Bush and Nancy Grace Fu*king

[madmusic]

What do you see?

http://www.jc2m.co.uk/Issue1/Altheide.pdf">Notes Towards A Politics Of Fear (PDF, and excellent!)

David L. Altheide
Arizona State University

"A good society is able to face schemes of world domination and foreign
revolutions alike without fear." Franklin D. Roosevelt

“People react to fear, not love—they don’t teach that in Sunday School,
but it’s true.” Richard Nixon

“Al Qaeda is to terror what the Mafia is to crime.” George W. Bush

I wish to chart the conceptual terrain of crime, terrorism, and victim by examining the
connection between the mass media and the politics of fear, or decision-makers’
promotion and use of audience beliefs and assumptions about danger, risk and fear in
order to achieve certain goals....

snip

The politics of fear promotes
attacking a target (for example, crime), terrorism, anticipates further victimisation,
curtails civil liberties, and stifles dissent as being non-responsive to citizen needs or
even “unpatriotic.” The Homeland Security Office advised the American people to
buy duct tape and plastic sheeting as a barrier to terrorism. This advisory had little to
do with “chemical protection” and much to do with the politics of fear.

[razors edge]

1. Two dogs fucking. nothing more.

[madmusic]

2. Really?

Another quote:

‘Since September 11, that politics has followed two distinct tracks: First,
state officials and media pundits have defined and interpreted the objects
of Americans' fears -- Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism -- in antipolitical
or non-political terms, which has raised the level of popular
nervousness; and, second, these same elites have generated a fear of
speaking out not only against the war and US foreign policy but also
against a whole range of established institutions.’

[razors edge]

5. bush and grace absolutely.

the rhetoric of fear does not and has never worked for me. I pay no attention or give no more credence to it than I do a nut job on the corner with a sign saying "THE END IS NEAR, REPENT"

Media makes more money from more viewers and being owned by the makers of the bombs so do they. I refuse to watch any of their shit and can pick up the odor of propaganda being catapulted without going there.

The masses will continue to collect their disinformation and perceive like told, as they are led to the slaughter, and ponder the earth shaking consequences for 12 seconds before the next cute commercial.

The leadership believes in controlling the masses with fear and manipulation. Politics of guns, gays etc. I believe in protection of the community I live in and my loved ones with Guns, Gold and the determination that when this house of cards comes crashing in, community leaders will have to step in and protect the insanely scared from the insanely opportunistic law breakers by means one would normally consider distasteful.

Not a task I relish, but for someone with many responsibilities and many families who count on me to provide a way of life for them through my connections and leadership, it is one I am capable of foreseeing in the not to distant future. to do otherwise I would feel remiss.

So I guess I don't care to much for a pundit's paid perceptions of fear and the failed leadership's lack of imagination to deal with it. When the walls come tumbling down we will have to rebuild with what is left.

[rox63]

6. That's a terrible insult to dogs!

Fido demands an apology! :spank:

[Freedom_from_Chains]

3. Now man that is the wrong visual image to be laying into my

brain first thing in the morning.

[focusfan]

4. a woman would have to be really hard up

to actually want to have sex with that Moron:puke: 

[IADEMO2004]

7. Wonkette/Nancy Grace NC17 Warning very naughty

http://wonkette.com/politics/nancy-grace/locked-and-loaded-202448.php

Fact or fiction?

[unhappycamper]

8. Locking.

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