Rising Hegemon
Not confined just to FoxNews, or even America. No, the Brits and their establishment papers can be just fine with it.
And when it comes to international sports corruption, the battle between the Olympics and FIFA for who is worse, continues.
In summary, for the price of a nice junket to Qatar you can have a reporter write a puff piece that overlooks things like virtual slave labor, antisemitism, and a ban on booze.
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Oh, shit, the Guardian, one of the planet's all-time greatest newspapers... say it ain't so!
Moving on to a completely different topic, was it at this blog that we once discussed, about five years ago, the conservative vision and how far in the distant past the wingnuts actually idealized as a Golden Age To Which We Should Return...?
Anyway, I was remembering that online debate yesterday as I was reading the NYT Magazine article by Jeffrey Rosen, "Radical Constitutionalism".
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/magazine/28FOB-idealab-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine
Amazingly, it turns out those commenters who suspected that the wingnuts secretly longed to return society to the middle ages were, um, a bit too conservative.
According to the article, the constitutional guru of the Tea Party movement, the late W. Cleon Skousen, in his 1981 book, “The 5,000-Year Leap,” argued that the founding fathers rejected collectivist “European” philosophies and instead derived their divinely inspired principles of limited government from fifth-century Anglo-Saxon chieftains, who in turn modeled themselves on the Biblical tribes of ancient Israel.
So... return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear... when men were men, women and blacks were chattel, and homosexuals, witches and shellfish-eaters could be stoned to death!
Good times!
this is what happens when media becomes another robber barron.
The past isn't dead. It isn't even past.
Faulkner
But all the playahs from all those earlier centuries are dead as dead can be.
vox.
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