The NYT’s Frank the Crank Mumbles about Missing Links. Typical propaganda

Abstract: Frank Rich of the New York Times dutifully throws every leftist cliché at Glenn Beck in a hasty and crude dance reminiscent of a head hunter’s celebration with fresh onions and a big pot.  He grinds away on a typical smear piece dropping as many names as will fit into his drifting cranium.  He offers nothing but spite against Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin as his custom with anybody to the right of Fidel Castro.  He offers moral and political support to the Islamo-terrorist Major Hassan [SoA] from Fort Hood who desperately needs a public platform to spew his hatred and the urgent need of a partner like the New York Times who will subvert any legal efforts to put this guy away or give him the injection he needs. The US is ultimately to blame for this massacre and Glenn Beck and Governor Palin are unindicted co-conspirators who deserve the ultimate blame for the deaths or our soldiers.  The Creator of Macacaism grinds out another pulp plop for his readers to share aloud in their Sharia Séances and drug parties.

The New Y0rk Times is a slick propaganda machine that shines like a star in the midst of the left.   The Times fosters a cluster of soothsayers, imported toadies and other busy little types to form and maintain a phalanx against decency and truth. They have a long history of attacking anything decent or American in value and nature with venom and spite disguised as concern or analysis.  They worship Marx.

Their most prestigious journalist and political disinformation specialist for this paper  was Walter Duranty[1] who in 1932 wrote 13 articles for the NYT on the Soviets and their gulags and murders and was awarded  the distinguished honor of the Pulitzer Prize. He was actually at or near the events [or knew the precise details] of what is known in Ukrainian history as Holodomor (Ukrainian: ?????????; translation: death by starvation)[2] and dismissed the horrors in his writings and denied their existence.[3]  His work, although manufactured lies designed to excuse the murderous excesses of Stalin, was politically correct before the term became fashionable and any suspicions about Walter from his editors on facts and details were quashed because he printed what the far left wanted to read. They still do.  Rich still does and does honor to the history, political views and image of Duranty.

Keeping with this hallowed tradition, we submit for today’s studies in propaganda and smear tactics the instant work of Frank the Crank. [4][5] Frank Rich is well known for his supernatural ability to crank out sophomoric and dogmatic far-left literary brats with sausage-machine tedium even when they apply to nothing in particular. He can sometimes identify a pratfall, even when it happens to a Clinton.[6] He is the hyperessayest[7] and self-anointed priest of macacaism. [8] His sharpest literary weapon is the use of negative evidence as he doesn’t have to defend elements of nonexistence.  He can spread the caca of macacaism around with a broad brush and bring tears to the eyes of True Believers who adore his works.  Inciting to racism is his sworn duty and personal honor and he excels in this art.

He begins:

“THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle cry for the self-proclaimed patriots of the American right.”[9]-- The Missing Link From Killeen to Kabul By Frank Rich Op-Ed Columnist Published: November 14, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

Paraphrasing by rycK:

“THE dead at Fort Hood had not even been laid to rest when their massacre became yet another political battle to apologize for and expose America’s sins by the self-proclaimed commanders of the Un-American left.” --rycK

That is what Frank is really saying, in my not-so-humble view, given my license to interpret his words and insert missing thoughts and comments—a process I learned from a colleague of his of sorts. This ‘journalist’ taught us  to use the ‘Unspoken Words Theorem’--so aptly invented by Maureen Dowd the Old Red Lady [10][11][12]of the Old Gray Lady[13] [e.g. Quoting Dowd: “But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!”[14]]—and here it is!

The unspoken words [translated in gangrenous  green] I heard from Rich go something like this: “I am glad this marginalized citizen, a true hero of the progressive revolution,  had a chance to express his anger at what Bush and the right have done and now this gives me an excuse to attack Republicans at will. “

That is slick. This is the new Stuff-and-React propaganda process invented by the left: Just put in what you think he said and that becomes fact. Then dump on him.

That is fair under New York Times standards as we know from the Dowdy Dowd. The Crank’s opening salvo has a great deal not said that projects volumes about Glenn Beck.  We now search for substance in this article, vainly, to see just what Beck has done to upset the NYT other than being a white male, a conservative and an American. What we will find is the hysterical and racist images of a journalist set to paper by a person far past his prime and helplessly stressed with an insoluble conundrum.

The Crank cranks on:

“With all due respect to Jimmy Carter,[15] the racist component of Obama-hatred has been undeniable since the summer of 2008, when Sarah Palin rallied all-white mobs to the defense of the “real America.”-- Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day By Frank Rich

Do we have any evidence that Palin recruited “all-white mobs” to attack somebody?  Anybody read hatred of Palin in this or other articles by the NYT?? No, this is standard smear tacticism by the Times.[16] When Joe Wilson called to Obama that “you lie!” the response from Rich must be:

“It’s not good for the country that a lawmaker can’t control his anger at Barack Obama. It gives permission to crazy people.”-- Frank Rich

Translated: “Since Palin and Beck are white we can always play the race with impunity and rate rave reviews from our Friends of Islam, SEIU, ACLU, M-13 and New Black Panthers. Go ahead and scream at them because we need your votes.“

I think Obama lied too and I would have done the same as Joe Wilson and excused myself with a lengthy parting  essay on civil disobedience at the podium in the House. Somehow, we are to be muzzled when we point out that Obama has no past, has no accomplishments and has done nothing for the economy other than advocate more massive spending and thus more massive debt from which we probably cannot recover. He is a liar;[17] I don’t like him.  He is a cultured stooge and lackey of Jeremiah Wright of 20 long years standing; I don’t trust him for that. Here is the implication that some white legislator, paying attention to the color of Barrack’s skin and ignoring that fact that he is half white—although this is never mentioned—gives comfort and encouragement to loonies or goon squads to do harm by questioning his veracity.  I call this disease cryptomisoxeny[18]. Thus, it appears that the thus afflicted Rich is conjuring a conspiracy theory with all the usual spangles and tinsel to warn us that hoards of howling armed white, red neck racists will soon rise up in some holy libertarian race war and demolish the presidency.  Thorazine is indicated here.

More and in detail as Rich outlines the attributes of this new threat:

“Time put Beck on its cover this week. Man of the Year may not be far behind. Beck is not, as many liberals assume, merely the latest incarnation of Rush Limbaugh. He is something different. That’s why he is gaining on his antecedents — and gaining traction in the country’s angrier precincts.

Though Beck’s daily Fox News show is in the sleepy slot of 5 p.m., his ratings are increasingly neck and neck with the prime-time tag team of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, and he has beaten them in the prized 25-to-54 demographic. It’s not just because he is younger (45). This self-described “rodeo clown,” who wells up with tears for dramatic effect, doesn’t come across as cranky or pompous, like Limbaugh and O’Reilly. A fervent Mormon convert and proselytizer, he is untainted by association with the old Dobson-Robertson-Reed religious right. Unlike Limbaugh, he bonds with his fallible listeners by openly and repeatedly owning up to his own mistakes, including his history of drug and alcohol abuse. Unlike Hannity, he is not a Republican apparatchik.”--Frank Rich

Translated: “ Beck is obviously  guilty  by association with my enemies  so I will smear him by plopping down names of the most  hated conservatives and interweave them in his work always referencing Nazism. “

And this analysis is politically correct in all ways and a refreshing example of the existence of some ethical limits—however slight--to Jaysonian License[19] to perturb the truth at the NYT.  But, do we detect some anti Mormon bias here? Can Frank be a bigot? Does he drink? Is he pompous? Has he taken drugs?

Frank drops names whenever he can until his sentences bulge with hate.

Frank quotes Beck:

“Americans “know that SOMETHING JUST DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT,” he writes, “but they don’t know how to describe it or, more importantly, how to stop it.” This is right-wing populism in the classic American style, as inchoate and paranoid as that hawked by Father Coughlin during the Great Depression and George Wallace in the late 1960s. ”-- Frank Rich

Coughlin was a leading anti-Communist during the Depression thus the mechanical hatred and spite emanating from the stilted script here.[20] Here the association with FDR and Huey Long gets complicated but the thrust of this article is all about the new alarming evils of populism and that is what Frank is glubbering about. He and other patriots like Ronald Reagan ruined a lot of the dreams of fellow travelers and worse.

I also think that SOMETHING JUST DOESN’T FEEL RIGHT when we are spending ourselves into the financial grave yard and are supposed to blindly support slimy groups like ACORN or SEIU.  I think Obama’s associations with Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and others make him an ideological racist[21][22], a liar[23] and a Marxian advocate or a simple stooge.[24] That is something far advanced from merely stating that Barack has ‘lied.’ He is a consummate liar.

Frank sputters on until his truss is too sticky to continue:

“Beck has notoriously defamed Obama as a “racist,” but the race card is just one in his deck. His ideology, if it can be called that, mixes idolatrous Ayn Rand libertarianism with bumper-sticker slogans about “freedom,” self-help homilies and lunatic conspiracy theories.”-- Frank Rich

The word freedom here is the most accusative of all Becks’ comments in leftist terms. Freedom means freedom from taxes and demigods like Obama and the now-subservient Clintons who somehow escaped jail and grovel in his shadow.

“Unlike liberal critics of capitalist inequities, of course, Beck and his claque are driven by an over-the-top detestation of government.”-- Frank Rich

Translated: Beck hates my precious Marxists.

Note the connection between detestation of government and liberalism that would consume all we have USSR style.  I detest liberalism and can give this process no good words given its performance since FDR and corruption from people like Gore, Clintons, Pelosi, Reid, Carter, Farrakhan, Rangel, Geithner, Schumer, Barney Frank and Cold Cash Jefferson that make liberalism what it is today. I detest all of these social parasites. These people are Un-American and crude parasites. I detest the Obama government.

Obama is a reverse racist, and ideological racist, a Marxist, a socialist and an anti-capitalist who can make speeches but deliver nothing except debt and despair. His approval ratings are plummeting hence the frenzied damage control antics by little squeakers like Frank.

In a final futile utterance, Frank reverses Glenn Beck’s warnings about Timothy McVeigh: [25]

“Beck frequently strikes the pose of an apocalyptic prophet, even insisting that he predicted 9/11. This summer he also started warning of domestic terrorism in the form of a new Timothy McVeigh. On this, one fears he knows whereof he speaks. For all our nation’s unfinished business on race, racism is not Obama’s biggest challenge during our unfinished Great Recession. He — and our political system — are being seriously tested by a rage that is no less real for being shouted by a demagogue from Fox and a backbencher from South Carolina.”-- Frank Rich

Translated: “Beck and his real Americans are a threat to the Marxian bloating of government and must be stopped.”

Yes, the test is on. Frank’s Cranklings are sour and reflexive and are obvious distortions of Beck’s original thoughts and comments. The need here is to stir up the violent factions of the left like the New Black Panthers or LaRaza or revive the old SDS and indirectly back their Islamo-Fascists allies that did so much good for Obama when he protested against President Bush. The left needs urging to go to the streets as they did in the 60s. He has nothing better than to place the reverse race card in an attempt to encourage this outcome as he is so adept at doing. He might be successful in some inner cities.

Beck’s popularity and presence is hacking away much unearned and residual faith in Obama and his wild-spending Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters and, yes, Americans know that something is indeed wrong.  We expect the worst of propaganda and smear tactics from the Walter Duranty Papers and today Frank Rich has given us more than an average dose. Frank condemns and besots his own twisted liberalism with his words and insinuations.

Great work Glenn!!

rycK

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