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April 23, 2007 at 07:12:51
Was VA Tech's Cho a Right Winger? by Rob Kall Page 1 of 2 page(s) |
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Right winger or not, the right wing and their lamestream media have milked Cho's massacre to further their emotional message... be afraid, be terrified.
A week later, the lamestream media are still obsessing on the mass murders of the 32 VA Tech students and faculty. I turn on CNN, only to see a mother crying because she's going home, leaving her son to finish his term at the school.
I ask the question, "was Cho a Right Winger," because this massacre has helped the Republican cause by helping their message... a lot.
I turn the sound off, so I can write with a clearer head. But the ad on CNN flashes to a scene from 9/11-- people running from the WTC towers, in terror.
That's the word, the message and the Republican cause. Terror is more than a word. It is a tone, a feeling, a way of living.
I switch to MSNBC. It's the Don Imus time slot and they're trying different people for the role of interviewer. Local Philly boy, Michael Smerconish is interviewing Rudy Giuliani, on... you guessed it... VA Tech and gun law. The lamestream media marathon onslaught continues.
Giuliani says, "Do you need armed people on campus? I thought we needed armed people in New York City schools..." They are ON MESSAGE.
The message? Be afraid.
Now, we know this was not a terrorist event. It was terrifying, but not terrorIST.
Still, the strongest trump card the right wing has had in the past five years, since the WTC destruction of two towers that were hit by fuel loaded jets and one tower that collapsed because of... a miracle, or whatever... has been the fear of terrorism-- of explosions, of suicide bombers, of WMDs like aerosolized anthrax, poison gas or a nuclear dirty bomb.
This psycho nutcase student couldn't have done more for the right wing cause-- the use of fear to shape political priorities.
Millions of soccer Moms, over the course of six years have become College Moms or getting ready for college, taking the kids to visit college campus moms. These are the people, with the Ws bumper stickers still on their SUVs-- those that they bought in 2004 which they're getting ready to turn in as their leases are up, maybe buying used cars this year, as their homes, which they bought that year have crashed in value and their three year arms have jumped their mortgage costs by 20 to 50%.
Back to the Lamestream media tube; Smerconish is interviewing Rev. Fred Phelps, the toxic preacher who bring signs to funerals stating "thank God for 9/11" and "thank God for IEDs.' This guy is despicable beyond measure, and Smerconish is unable to deal with him as an interviewee, so he has to shut off the microphone-- appropriately. The Rev. did a radio interview Hari Kari-- a one shot. He'll never be invited on again. But while Smerconish is reaching that decision, Phelps is dishing out bible talk-- that God is punishing America, that the dead GIs in Iraq, the lost lives at the WTC on 9/11 are "smoke coming from the nostrils of God"-- punishment for allowing gays to thrive in America.
Smerconish does a decent job with this toxic nut who reportedly makes his living litigating against people he pisses off so much they take violent or other illegal action against him and is contemptible flock.
Then he takes a caller. He's simultaneously doing his Philly morning drive time show and covering the Imus slot.
Caller: "You made your bed with the religious right. "
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Your headlines
Rob, If you can stand a bit of constructive criticism, the headline on your Cho story is misleading. Unless you back it up, there's no there there. It's an innuendo that makes it appear you're playing politics with this horrible massacre. I'd be curious whether you had any evidence. The implication seems to be that Cho was motivated by feeding into the right wing fear machine. That's an unfortunate and unworthy innuendo. by Don Williams (124 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments) on Monday, Apr 23, 2007 at 7:56:52 AM  (0+)
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Where it should count
I'm only on my campus two days a week for three classes, but not one single time, either in class, in the halls, or any of the student lounges, did I hear one single word about the shooting. I saw a local news crew on campus setting up for a spot, but if there was any place it should be a topic of conversation, it was on a college campus. It wasn't. It's another example of manufactured consent on what is important. I saw no students who looked to be afraid. I saw nothing out of the ordinary except the local news crew. Who knows if all the college mom's were shuddering for fear back home, but it sure wasn't evident among the students I saw. by Mark Petersen (9 articles, 73 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 50 comments) on Monday, Apr 23, 2007 at 8:11:54 AM (0+)
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Cho was a left-winger
If anything, Cho was a left-winger, since he was complaining about the gluttony of the rich. by Steve Consilvio (18 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 184 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Apr 23, 2007 at 8:54:46 AM (0+)
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Terror
More and more the War on Terror is clearly an Establishment effort to marginalize the life options of ordinary citizenry to the aggrandizement of Power for the Rich, Relevance and profile to the political elites and Ratings (influence + affluence) for the chattering classes. Notice I did not use RIGHT or LEFT in any of my assertion. When WE THE PEOPLE are done reeling from the RIGHT Hook of the last six years the LEFT cross coming will be the knock out punch. 9/11 serves all Establishment interests. Establishment interests are the Marginalization of regular citizenry. Sorry, Establishment is NOT a Passe term. OK The word may be out of fashion but I assure you the function is quite alive and well. THRIVING even. That the word Establishment is not used tells me that WE THE PEOPLE have an insufficient grasp of the Alliance of the seeming disparate seats of power in world Governance.(EMPIRE) This guy CHO, Have all the periods of his life been verified? Where's he's been, what he was doing? Any peculiar GAPS in his timeline? WHY? Just curious. by "Hoss" David P. (51 articles, 5 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 338 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Apr 23, 2007 at 1:40:20 PM (0+)
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perspective
Right-wing people are usually people who are looking to compete, and who are convinced of their own strength and who will do anything to win. The more right-wing they are the more they are convinced of their strength and the more they will do to win, even things that are illegal, for which they have no remorse. They will only unite if they think it benefits their own agenda and their union will last as long as it suits them. Left wing people are usually people who are trying to cooperate, and they see the limit of a victory, and they usually want to set rules to make sure people play fair, and even if people win fairly they expect the winners to share at least a part with the losers. They feel united with anyone. The Virginia situation is a typical case of a right-wing self-fulfilling prophecies wet dream come true. More reasons to hate, more reason to make laws which are supposed to prevent this but in reality only benefit himself. On the other hand it is also to the benefit of a left-wing guy because he can claim this would never have happened in a more social society. It's just a matter of perspective. Now it's up to the guy with the most power of conviction to make things happen their way. by Han (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 228 comments [6 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Apr 23, 2007 at 3:24:05 PM (0+)
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I HAVE...
serious questions about this thing. It doesn't make sense that he would kill 2 people, go back to his room, gather up his "manifesto", run 15 to 20 min. down to the post office to send it to NBC so everybody knows it was a CRAZY LONE GUNMAN( where have we heard that before?) that did it. Then he comes 15 to 20min back to the school, he must go back to his room to get chains for the door, unless he carted them back and forth to and from the post office. They don't find any ID on the guy, but there's a reciept from a gun shop in his backpack. Did you know that one of the victims was a witness to the pentagon attack on 911? Did you know VT is home for psy-ops research for the CIA?...never take anything at face value with these people. And why didn't the gunman who killed that hostage at the Johnson Space Center get plastered all over the TV? They reported it, then it got buried. My gut tells me we're being played here. by mike wygant (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 287 comments) on Monday, Apr 23, 2007 at 7:22:08 PM (0+)
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