Brit Blogger's View of the American Right

[XanaDUer]

http://the-osterley-times.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-are-crazy-right-wingers-treated-so.html

I suppose most Americans are so used to their own right wing that they see nothing unusual in what is going on at the moment. Crazy people are behaving crazily, why would anyone expect any different?

But that's not how it looks from across the pond, where things that Americans shrug at, are being looked at in amazement.

The Republicans are behaving insanely, making allegations of euthanasia etc., which would simply be considered unacceptable in any other democracy.

What is it about the American media where one side are allowed to indulge in such abhorrent scaremongering and the press don't eat them alive for it? Why is this kind of fantastical nonsense allowed to pass as political discourse?

The fact that the AstroTurfers are really simply Republicans is becoming too obvious for even the press to ignore.

[C_U_L8R]

1. I blame our press too

they have been reduced to lapdogs...
whatever happened to brave honest smart journalists?

(perhaps we have only ourselves to blame)

[LiberalEsto]

2. We don't have a free press

We have a corporatized press. The leaders of the crazies opposing health reform are in the pay of corporations and their lobbyists. Need I say more?

[XanaDUer]

3. Kick

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