Conservatives and the daily outrage

[Ravi]

This is mainly about the Sherrod insanity but highlights something that is important.

Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.


You are familiar with that machine if you have access to the Internet or Fox News. As the name implies, it exists to stoke and maintain a state of perpetual apoplexy on the political right by feeding it a never-ending stream of perceived sins against conservative orthodoxy.



While the machine will use any available fuel (health care, immigration, Muslims) to manufacture fury, it has a special fondness for race. Specifically, for stories that depict the God-fearing white conservative as a victim of oppression.

`Fury' of the right turns into shameful hoax - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com

This is modern day conservatism in a nutshell. Every day a new outrage, more whining, more hysteria. Never any attempts to accomplish anything...merely daily outrage.

You can see this with a handful of posters here that post daily on some imagined and overblown horror.

 

[Samson]

This is mainly about the Sherrod insanity but highlights something that is important.

Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.


You are familiar with that machine if you have access to the Internet or Fox News. As the name implies, it exists to stoke and maintain a state of perpetual apoplexy on the political right by feeding it a never-ending stream of perceived sins against conservative orthodoxy.



While the machine will use any available fuel (health care, immigration, Muslims) to manufacture fury, it has a special fondness for race. Specifically, for stories that depict the God-fearing white conservative as a victim of oppression.

`Fury' of the right turns into shameful hoax - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com

This is modern day conservatism in a nutshell. Every day a new outrage, more whining, more hysteria. Never any attempts to accomplish anything...merely daily outrage.

You can see this with a handful of posters here that post daily on some imagined and overblown horror.

Is the "Outrage Machine" part of "The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy?"

 

[Bfgrn]

This is mainly about the Sherrod insanity but highlights something that is important.

Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.


You are familiar with that machine if you have access to the Internet or Fox News. As the name implies, it exists to stoke and maintain a state of perpetual apoplexy on the political right by feeding it a never-ending stream of perceived sins against conservative orthodoxy.



While the machine will use any available fuel (health care, immigration, Muslims) to manufacture fury, it has a special fondness for race. Specifically, for stories that depict the God-fearing white conservative as a victim of oppression.

`Fury' of the right turns into shameful hoax - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com

This is modern day conservatism in a nutshell. Every day a new outrage, more whining, more hysteria. Never any attempts to accomplish anything...merely daily outrage.

You can see this with a handful of posters here that post daily on some imagined and overblown horror.

Fox News's 50-state Southern strategy
The network hypes one "scary black people" and "Obama's a racist" story after another.

CNN's "Reliable Sources" from Sunday is worth watching. American University's Jane Hall has the best quote, in my opinion: The former Fox contributor said Shirley Sherrod was the victim of "virtual world McCarthyism."

 

[bodecea]

This is mainly about the Sherrod insanity but highlights something that is important.

Last week, the conservative outrage machine tried to chew up Shirley Sherrod.


You are familiar with that machine if you have access to the Internet or Fox News. As the name implies, it exists to stoke and maintain a state of perpetual apoplexy on the political right by feeding it a never-ending stream of perceived sins against conservative orthodoxy.



While the machine will use any available fuel (health care, immigration, Muslims) to manufacture fury, it has a special fondness for race. Specifically, for stories that depict the God-fearing white conservative as a victim of oppression.

`Fury' of the right turns into shameful hoax - Leonard Pitts Jr. - MiamiHerald.com

This is modern day conservatism in a nutshell. Every day a new outrage, more whining, more hysteria. Never any attempts to accomplish anything...merely daily outrage.

You can see this with a handful of posters here that post daily on some imagined and overblown horror.

Teleprompter and "Feet on the Oval Office desk" are soooooooo last year.

 

[Woyzeck]

Nothing says ratings like sensationalism.

So, anyone else miss the days when the biggest outrage they raged over was the alleged 'War on Christmas?'