In George Orwell’s novel “1984,” on a daily basis everything stops for the Two Minutes of Hate, during which those in political control flash distorted images of their political enemies on a television screen so the populace can rage against them. Obviously, this is a manipulative, dishonest propaganda tool — four words that also describe Jon Stewart, who yesterday served up his own dishonest Eight Minutes of Hate against Sarah Palin. Sure, he does it with a smirk, but the outcome is exactly the same. Feed the rage machine, feed the rage machine, feed the rage machine…
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Essentially, Jon Stewart’s entire disingenuous complaint and subsequent attack comes down to Palin referring to the shooter as “apoliticial” and “perhaps even left-leaning,” a perfectly reasonable statement for the Governor to make in light of what we’ve learned about Loughner over the course of the last week. Her point is nowhere near accusatory, she’s simply pointing out the irony of it all.
But Stewart isn’t interested in being reasonable or fair. He has a president and an agenda to satisfy, he has that day’s Two Minutes of Hate to serve up to the population, and so he drops Palin’s perfectly reasonable observation into his Palace Guard Spin Machine and, to the delight of the “objective media,” removes it, polishes it with some smug mugging, and then places it on the same moral plane as those who accused her of inciting the Tucson murder.
No, really, that’s what he does. Watch it again.
Stewart’s willfully Newspeaking the word “hypocrisy.” He’s purposefully and dishonestly slipping into the narrative the objectively false notion that Palin’s reasonable assessment of Loughner’s politics is no different than her doing to the Left what the Left did to her — accusing them of inciting murder.
Stewart’s own words:
“There must be a word for complaining vociferously about a wrong being done to you whilst casually committing said wrong yourself.”
See what Big Brother did there?
That is a lie, but a beautifully crafted one.
The wrong done to Palin had nothing to do with an objective observation regarding Loughner’s political philosophy, the wrong done to Palin was in accusing her of inciting someone to commit a mass murder. Did Palin accuse the Left of inciting murder? No. But Stewart’s rhetorical spin makes it sound as though she did.
The rest of the video is typical Jon Stewart. Watch Jon Stewart freak out over political rhetoric! Watch the Left’s Dancing Smirk Bear unfairly shred a woman while denouncing the coarseness of our politics! Watch Stewart deliberately miss the point of Palin’s “they won’t shut me up” statement!
If you think about it, there really is a sinister Big Brother quality to Stewart, a man who imperiously stares down on his political rivals instructing them to “speak” in a certain way. He may not disappear you, but his threat is still a serious political one. Those not in compliance with his rules regarding political speech will face the spreading of talking points laced with satiric character assassination.
Stewart plays for keeps and because of the power he holds and his willingness to wield it ruthlesly, our political class finds him as intimidating as any member of the Thought Police.
Well, God bless her, except for Sarah Palin.
What Stewart does in the video above is so devious and well thought out that I had to watch it a couple of times before the Matrix became visible. And you’re welcome for saving you from having to do the same.
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