tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342100421756914597.post5310225367226118553..comments2024-01-12T18:45:52.043-05:00Comments on The Weekly Sift: PropagandaDoug Muderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04666144843949850394noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342100421756914597.post-48691523155348115882010-09-16T14:44:17.550-04:002010-09-16T14:44:17.550-04:00There was a painful article in the New Yorker rece...There was a painful article in the New Yorker recently (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer) about the Koch brothers, speaking of "right-wing money creates bogus think tanks." Maybe we need to recast Daily Kos as a think tank. ;)xinenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2342100421756914597.post-34454665268486073222010-09-16T02:36:21.164-04:002010-09-16T02:36:21.164-04:00It's not particularly the *religious* right wi...It's not particularly the *religious* right wing - it's more the Rove/Norquist propaganda machine. You may remember some articles from later in the Bush years where evangelicals started to realize that the Bush Administration was just using them - they tend to be conservative, and they've got big well-marked buttons to push, and the propagandists had years of practice pushing them. The propagandists for the most part don't care about Islam as a religion - they care about it as a well-enough-defined large group that can be used as enemies, now that there aren't any more Commies hiding under our beds, and of course They have Our Oil.Bill Stewartnoreply@blogger.com