Rand Paul and the winged monkeys: Palin 5, Republican Establishment 0

Maddow brings the classic old-school trade device of mnemonic slander to her interviews,
the same tool used most effectively to reinforce institutionalized racism in
the South for 100 years. In an earlier report, for example, she presented as a
representative figure of the Tea Party a politician who had solicited a prostitute.
She also associated the Tea Party with white extremists, including the fascist
group Storm Front, secessionist groups and armed militia, adding that she “wouldn’t
accuse the Tea Party of that, but . . . ”

The deed is done in the mind by association and language. On the eve of Rand Paul’s
primary, she told MSNBC colleague Keith Olbermann that she was so psyched that
she was just “vibrating in her seat” — so much for journalist detachment and
objectivity. Her interview with Paul is a classic in “gotcha” journalism — journalistic
caricature and entrapment. We are vibrating on the edge of our seats as well
with anticipation: How will Letterman and Katie Couric go after Rand Paul? Who
will caricature Rand Paul on “Saturday Night Live” as Tiny Fey does Palin?

Before we even think of upcoming debates in November and in 2012, there should
be a review and a new accountability of journalistic practices since 2008. The
cooperation between network entertainers and MSM proselytizers like Maddow to
support and enforce government policy used to be called Mao Theater.
Journalists and entertainers in this vein should be considered government
agents, lobbyists for the government’s two stylistically different points of
view, employed to reinforce the conditioned reflex of the mainstream by
disgracing and humiliating new leaders and inhibiting the appearance of any new
ideas and new thinking. The 2008 Republican Party debates will be recalled for disgraceful
historic images as Ron Paul, who after the Kentucky primary must be considered the
most important conservative politician in the world today, was intentionally
and cooperatively driven to the margins.

We are today at a generational shift and will see the passing of Clinton
liberals and Krauthammer/Kristol conservatives going off the cliff together
like Sherlock Homes and Professor Moriarty. As the Tea Party event in Nashville
a few months ago, featuring Palin as head speaker, suggested a political folk
revival in the American heartland, Rand Paul is the rough-hewn folk hero rising
from that event. And no question, Palin is the Grizzly Momma of this group, the
majority of whom are women.

This is good for conservatives, as the change presented is similar to that of
the rise of the Jack Kennedy crowd in Boston’s Irish neighbors, scorned by the liberal
Protestant elite and Eleanor Roosevelt in particular. Today Palin, the
Conservative Party of New York, the Tea Party and Ron Paul libertarianism,
which looks to the gold standard and Austrian economics, bring a rising force
in an age that will soon be called “post-global.”

Kristol and Krauthammer can no longer sit back with a smirk and depend on the
winged monkeys of the MSM to demolish the opposition for them. In NY-23, in
Massachusetts, in Virginia, in the Texas primary and now in Kentucky we have
seen the lineup of Cheney, Gingrich, Rove, Bush I and Bush II (by proxy) line
up against Palin. The score so far: Palin 5, Republican Establishment 0.

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