Nothing Funny About 24/7 Hate-Tainmentby: Dean BarkerFri Apr 02, 2010 at 07:37:34 AM EDT |
In the space of a few hours last night, I heard a hate radio personality infer that the Hutaree were a bunch of buffoons essentially set up by the government to appear to be dangerous, Sean Hannity casually refer to the Tea People as "Tim McVeigh wannabes" (to applause), and read this from Glenn Beck about the passage of health care reform:
Get down on your knees and pray. Pray. It's September 11th all over again, except that we didn't have the collapsing buildings.I think it's time to get serious about the 24/7 Hate-Tainment industry. It plays on the easily victimized, the fearful, and the uninformed. And it's dangerous to the safety and well-being of the Grand Experiment of our democracy. I'm not interested in using this frightening violence-baiting as a partisan exercise to bring people over to our team. Rather, I would like to know what we as a country can do to prevent the Hate-Tainment industry from contributing to a real tragedy. What can we do to counter the well-funded, morally vacuous puppeteers of this hate? |