tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post6851839152151866477..comments2023-06-19T02:55:00.081-07:00Comments on Dirty Greenie Hippy: Diggy Doesn't Dig - Episode Umpity Ba-jillionAlanSmitheehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14302036848656627300noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-27098983269677667552009-08-01T05:45:17.704-07:002009-08-01T05:45:17.704-07:00Media consolidation? During the Clinton Golden Ye...Media consolidation? During the Clinton Golden Years of Peace and Prosperity? Perish the thought! Why, that's just crazy talk! <br /><br />And that whole NAFTA thing was just a prank whipped up by ILM. It's true! I read it on DKo$!AlanSmitheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14302036848656627300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-82632060913979437312009-07-29T19:45:12.962-07:002009-07-29T19:45:12.962-07:00Are you implying that massive consolidation of med...Are you implying that massive consolidation of media outlets happened during the glorious golden era of Clinton I? <br /><br />Because I'm sure that can't be true. Also that whole Seattle 99 thing was staged. It was just a few smelly losers duping the innocent masses into thinking that they were being fucked. I'm positive of this. Actually there were only about twenty-seven smelly losers at the entire demo, but they were really good with mirrors and those 3-D puppets, so the crowd looked much bigger.<br /><br />-- ms_xenoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-5457382747083999002009-07-28T11:20:22.716-07:002009-07-28T11:20:22.716-07:00In your defense, they did promise to wage a civil ...In your defense, they did promise to wage a civil war against each other, with plenty of aggrieved accusations of post modernism as the rallying cry. It would still, as you say, scan the same but at least there'd be something other than their inane nattering.Al Schumannhttp://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-84021922073021308202009-07-28T10:06:17.956-07:002009-07-28T10:06:17.956-07:00Of course, in most of the posts here you could cha...Of course, in most of the posts here you could change 'pwoggie' to 'freeper' and they'd still scan just as well. (Okay, not much of an endorsement for the posts themselves, but still...)AlanSmitheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14302036848656627300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260336111007478020.post-53907818644621718792009-07-28T09:41:43.693-07:002009-07-28T09:41:43.693-07:00Digby's in the same boat as the wingnuts on th...Digby's in the same boat as the wingnuts on the "media bias" thing. If they abandon it, they'd have to start looking at structural critiques or, Dog forbid, class politics. Neither of those are friendly to an incrementally meaner and stupider defense of the status quo. Which, needless to say, is what they're stuck with as long as they're determined get their civic identity fix from the corporate party circuit. It's much easier to chase ephemera, change branding and come up with competing versions of fatuous close readings.<br /><br />For me, personally, what makes it so contemptible is that there is no penalty of any kind for simply sitting it out, maybe do a little checkbook charity to the ACLU or whatever, whether or not they care to rethink. The rewards for active boosterism are shitty little things and go to very few, at enormous direct cost to their claques, not to mention the rest of the country and whatever country is currently subjected to the export of neoliberalism at gun point.Al Schumannhttp://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org/noreply@blogger.com