Making UO More Like the Corner, the Continuing Story
Mona, Armed Lib isn’t saying anything that hasn’t been obvious for a long time. The hawkish bloggers have, since the dawn of Teh Blogosphere, believed that they aren’t just commenting on "the War on Terror," they’re fighting it. Because they’ve bought the notion that there is an overarching WoT in the first place, and that wherever the US government decides to stick troops is a critical theater of that war, and because they also bought the idea that the "real" front is American public opinion because so long as our will remains strong (very eventual) victory is assured, they can therefore convince themselves that they are, in their way, warriors against terror. But that means that whatever they write, they write first to keep America’s spirits up, and only to enhance America’s understanding to the extent that it doesn’t bum the country out. Like the "military analysts" on the TeeVee, you have to assume they are in the psyops business, consciously or unconsciously.
Comment by Mona —
April 20, 2008 @ 10:01 pm
Like the “military analysts” on the TeeVee, you have to assume they are in the psyops business, consciously or unconsciously.
Pal Jim, I do think Armed Lib is saying something new — and teh absurd. He’s claiming the insurgents are the bomb at propaganda. Somehow here permeating the American establishment media with it. So, we have to propagandize here, too.
I submit, pal Jim, that is the only time I’ve ever seen that risible “argument.”
Comment by Tom Scudder —
April 20, 2008 @ 10:34 pm
Well, Mona, you have to remember that the Liberal Media is on the insurgents’ side.
Comment by Donald Johnson —
April 20, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Apparently this superb insurgent success at propaganda is demonstrated by a faked photo in Lebanon and whatever he thinks the Palestinians have managed to pull off. So apparently the Israelis didn’t kill hundreds of civilians in Lebanon and–well, I don’t know what it is we’re supposed to have been misled by with respect to the Palestinians, but I’m sure it’d turn my whole worldview upside-down if I knew what it was.
Fortunately, though, we’ve got military contractors spouting Pentagon talking points while pretending to be independent analysts on the MSM, so their lies about Iraq balance out that fake photo in Lebanon. Or something like that.
Comment by dsquared —
April 21, 2008 @ 3:46 am
Over on Airstrip One, our local version call it “The Greatest Intellectual Struggle Of Our Time”.
Comment by Davebo —
April 21, 2008 @ 12:57 pm
What’s odd is that in his followup Danziger declares High Clearing to be a Progblog.
Comment by Jim Henley —
April 21, 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Whatever. If people want to call us “progressives” or “leftists” or “liberals” I don’t care any more.
Comment by Bruce Baugh —
April 21, 2008 @ 1:46 pm
I presume by Progblog that he’s referring to the long, multi-movement posts, the extended solos, the Roger Dean avatars, and so on.
Oh, not that progressive? Never mind.
Comment by Eric the .5b —
April 21, 2008 @ 2:14 pm
Heck, I’m certain we are, by his lights.
Comment by Thers —
April 22, 2008 @ 2:18 pm
Whatever. If people want to call us “progressives†or “leftists†or “liberals†I don’t care any more.
Indeed, as the key distinction to make in regards to war cheerleaders like “Armed Liberal” and anyone else has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with crazy/not crazy.
Comment by Barry —
April 23, 2008 @ 6:59 am
Or lying like a rug/ordinary honesty. After five years of ‘ponies next year – trust us!’, it’s pretty clear that there are a lot of people who deeply wish to be lied to.