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In reply to the discussion: Why bother posting Russia Today videos anymore? [View all]pampango
(24,692 posts)Actually, AFAIK no one posts videos from FOX News, Beck or any number of other right wing sources (except perhaps to show how lunatic the makers of the video are). If anyone did, I suppose you could present it as posting a diversity of views accompanied by, one would hope, an opinion as to why the video was based on fear and emotion (classic right wing stuff) rather than on facts and history.
Since FOX, Beck and RT all promote a nationalistic, authoritarian, anti-gay, "family values", fundamentalist, neo-con view of the world, we should take them for what they are worth (not much) and use them to understand what is going on in the heads of conservatives (again, not much). Now that's a tall order.
When folks post videos from FOX, Beck or RT, not to mock them, but to support their view of the world, well that says more about the poster than it does about the source of the video. RT is doing its job for the people that fund it (conservatives to be sure), just like Beck and FOX News are doing.