Is Rush Limbaugh in a Scandelous Trouble Again
If y'all read the Guardian, the chances are y'all don't spend that much fourth dimension reading Breitbart, or Red State, or listening to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.
If you get most of your news from Facebook, then yous might not be exposed to those sources much, either. Gizmodo reported on Monday that Facebook employees had deliberately filtered out conservative sources from its trending bar. Facebook has denied allegations of bias.
To detect out what I might exist missing, I have spent the last three days getting all my news from conservative media. I got rid of my lamestream media apps and went direct to the angry, rightwing source.
One of most startling things I learned is just how willing the federal government is to waste taxpayers' money. On Tuesday, the Washington Times reported that taxpayers had "paid for ane scientist to have a bee sting his penis", in a study that had been reported by the Guardian the year before.
The report was conducted by a researcher named Michael L Smith, who was trying to find out which was the most painful place to be stung by a bee. The penis was the third-most painful place, behind the nose and the upper lip.
While I didn't know almost penis-bee-sting-gate, I did already know that Hillary Clinton'southward email server, and the issues therein, were a big deal to bourgeois media.
But I hadn't realised just quite how big of a deal. Or how vague of a deal.
"Emails. Clinton. Scandal. Emails. Her emails. Decadent."
Barely five minutes goes by on rightwing radio without Clinton's emails existence mentioned. Well-nigh of the time there is no explanation of the story, or any update to the story. Instead, "Hillary'southward emails" is used as a two-give-and-take dismissal of Clinton's bid for president. It's also used as a 2-word reprieve for any Republican politicians, frequently invoked when discussing any Donald Trump mishap.
"Donald Trump nevertheless hasn't released his revenue enhancement returns."
"Aye. Simply Hillary'southward emails."
Since Ted Cruz dropped out of the race for president, most conservative news outlets and commentators have fallen into line in backing Trump. But some are extremely sensitive about it.
During his radio show on Thursday evening, Sean Hannity addressed people who he said were criticising him for supporting Trump. He didn't care what people were saying from their computers, he said. It didn't bother him at all. Because he had never backtracked. He had never said he wouldn't support Trump anyway.
For a man not bothered, he certainly talked for a long fourth dimension near it. I made it nigh v minutes. But it shows the toxicity effectually Trump, even within conservative media.
If the more mainstream of the conservative outlets are bankroll Trump, there are bastions of anti-Trump sentiment out there.
1 of my favourite websites became the Right Scoop. It's great. It doesn't become whatever scoops. Instead, it'south more a serial of rants written by one angry person who really hates Trump.
Anyone who displays back up for Trump is labelled a "Trumpbot". Play tricks News personalities Tucker Carlson and Eric Bolling were both labelled Trumpbots final week for suggesting people should support the billionaire.
One post, headlined: "Okay Fox News, I call back I'm gonna gag ...", was just a video of a Play tricks presenter asking Donald Trump if he thought Budweiser had changed its name to "America" because of his entrada. Trump agreed.
The comments section is vitriolic. Nether a piece about Trump refusing to release his tax returns, Trump is dubbed "Don the con" in one comment, and his missing tax returns are compared to Clinton'south missing emails (there nosotros go once again) in some other. And this is by bourgeois voters.
Away from the political trail, one common theme among bourgeois media is the idea that white people are under attack in America.
It was brought abode when I was listening to New York's WOR radio on Fri. Len Berman – he's like a poor human's Rush Limbaugh – and Todd Schnitt – an extremely down-on-his-luck man's Glenn Beck – host the morning show.
On Friday forenoon, the pair discussed a news story most a bus for a Jewish school that had been fix on fire. Five boys, anile between xi and 14, had been arrested in connection with the fire. A video accompanying the story showed that the children alleged to take caused the fire were African American.
Berman and Schnitt posited that if the children who had set burn to the coach were white, and had been attacking a school motorcoach for black children, there would have been more of a furore in the media.
In this instance, "lilliputian black kids" had attacked white Jewish kids, Berman and Schnitt told us. But we don't hear that reported, they said.
White people are persecuted. People of colour become a costless pass. Sean Hannity had made a like point on his show earlier in the week, when he brought up comments made by Barack Obama's national security adviser, Susan Rice. She had said that there was a lack of diversity in key government posts.
Hannity noted that nosotros have been told before that the government is too white.
"We've heard this before: that nosotros're cowardly when information technology comes to race," Hannity said. He didn't say when we had been told we are cowardly when information technology comes to race.
Hannity said that African Americans only brand upward 12% of the population. By that mensurate, at that place have to be a lot of white people who voted for Obama.
"And so nosotros're not that cowardly," Hannity concluded – responding to an allegation that he just had made. If the government is also white, "peradventure Obama hired the wrong people", Hannity said.
So there you go. There's no problem with race in America. At least not from the white side.
The problem is Obama. Still. Amid all the Clinton-Trump-race-federal waste matter noise, Obama was the recurring theme.
Obama is hiring the wrong people. Obama and his staff are antagonising white people.
Obama is also running an "anti-American calendar", co-ordinate to Mark Belling, a pundit who filled in for Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday.
This was because the president was going to Japan to "apologise" for bombing Hiroshima, Belling said. Belling said this despite having just played a clip in which an Obama spokesman said that the trip was non an amends.
Limbaugh himself had told listeners on Tuesday that Obama had an anti-suburb agenda. The president is "waging war" on them, Limbaugh said, past forcing developers to build affordable housing in some suburbs.
"The i thing you have to understand about liberals is they hate suburbia," Limbaugh told his listeners on Tuesday.
"They despise it. They despise suburbia because of who lives there. They despise suburbia because it exists. They despise bourgeoisie because in that location's no mass transit. They despise suburbia because it'due south a lot of cars and SUVs and soccer moms destroying the planet by climatic change."
While it's unlikely that Obama is actually targeting suburbs, the Limbaugh rant was quite revealing in how unlike sides of the political spectrum see each other. It'southward easy to scoff at the lumping in of all liberals equally hating suburbs. Just is it that unlike from liberals characterizing Trump supporters, for instance, as angry bigots who hate anything that isn't American?
Maybe there's a lesson in that location for us all. Two lessons, really.
The second is that, in the world of rightwing media, some may like Donald Trump. Some may dislike Donald Trump. But no i likes Hillary Clinton, and, especially, no one likes Barack Obama.
- This commodity was amended on fifteen May 2016 to correctly place the Facebook feature from which conservative sources were allegedly filtered out
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/15/conservative-media-facebook-trends-clinton-trump-hannity-limbaugh
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