Ex-Reagan adviser: Fox News is ‘self-brainwashing’ Republicans into a radical fringe party

[The Guesser]

This guy gets it. Of course, the usual, brainwashed, cult suspects will call him a traitor to Saint Ronnie, instead of the purveyor of truth, proving him right, that they are indeed stuck in the bubble.

[h=1]Ex-Reagan adviser: Fox News is ‘self-brainwashing’ Republicans into a radical fringe party[/h]

David Edwards
24 May 2015 at 14:55 ET
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Economist Bruce Bartlett, a former adviser to both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, warned over the weekend that Fox News had damaged the Republican Party by creating a bubble for conservatives to brainwash themselves.

In his paper “How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics” published earlier this month, Bartlett theorized that watching the network was essentially “self-brainwashing” for viewers, making them believe that the United States was a more conservative nation than it actually was. And so the Republican Party had responded by running radical conservatives that representative Fox News viewers, but not the true state of the electorate.

“Many conservatives live in a bubble where they watch only Fox News on television, they listen only to conservative talk radio — Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, many of the same people,” Bartlett told CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday. “When they go onto the Internet, they look at conservative websites like National Review, Newsmax, World Net Daily.”

“And so, they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And that’s brainwashing.”

Bartlett asserted that it was a bigger problem for conservatives than liberals because they did not have their own network for a long time, and then they “drank very heavily from the Fox waters.”
Watch the video below from CNN’s Reliable Sources, broadcast May 24, 2015.

 

[Willie99]

Obama and his radical fringe policies he jams down our throats thinking he's a monarchy mean nothing

but once again libtards go after the one dissenting voice in the media. Reporting is the problem in their world, that's what's most important to the 10 second sound bite crowd. Actually policy? they have no fucking idea and it's much more difficult to follow than a sound bite.

they're nothing if not consistent, consistently short sighted, naive and juvenile

beaten like a drum, because they can be

 

[Acebb]

Yeah, this looks like a fringe party to me

Also note: Democrats are now “at their lowest point in state legislatures in nearly a century.” In this week’s election Democrats lost their majorities in legislative chambers in Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York and West Virginia. In all, NCSL reports that there are 67 legislative chambers controlled by Republicans and just 29 controlled by Democrats


Just a completely beclowning thread.

 

[Enfuego]

A person that allows themselves to be brainwashed by a television show is just not that smart to begin with.

I watch Fox and understand sometimes they go over-the-top but then again, so does CNN, MSNBC or any other station. It is what it is.

 

[Acebb]

^ Look at the fringe there.

PS:

Does guesser even realize this stuff is going on?

 

[Enfuego]

What's interesting is the Civil War is the war that has produced the most U.S. Presidents (not pictured).

 

[SheriffJoe]

The political system has gone off the deep end and people say Fox News 'brainwashes' only because it refuses to spew radical left talking points all day long. Have you seen the coverage on CNN and the alphabet networks? Every story is spun into a political narrative of the left.

I stopped watching Fox when they refused to expose the Kenyan, they are most certainly NOT 'right wing'...just a little more distant from the insane asylum than the others.

 

[JDeuce]

In his paper “How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics” published earlier this month, Bartlett theorized that watching the network was essentially “self-brainwashing” for viewers, making them believe that the United States was a more conservative nation than it actually was. And so the Republican Party had responded by running radical conservatives that representative Fox News viewers, but not the true state of the electorate.

You mean the Republican Party regrets running those "radical" conservatives that won their races?

As for POTUS candidates, Ronnie was the last "radical right" candidate the R's put atop their ticket...and it took a lot of kicking and screaming to get him there. How did those two elections turn out? Ever since, we've seen nothing but RINOs atop the R ticket. How have those turned out?

FYI, take a look at the principles upon which this nation was founded. Then ask yourself which party align themselves more closely with those, or with, say, what you might find in the Communist manifesto.

Dimocraps have fooled themselves into believing that since conservative voters haven't been inspired by their shitty selection of candidates for the most part (and choose to stay home on election day), that must mean there has been some kind of sweeping acceptance and embracing of dimocrap principles and values by the public. Could not be further from the truth. It'd be like saying "Cam Newton QB'd the Panthers to a win" when he had a QB rating of 0.0 and threw three picks...and the Panthers D + special teams accounted for all of Carolina's scoring.

 

[festeringZit]

I wonder if the maggot sewer rat that started this thread will tout Bruce Bartlett's excoriating of the Democrat party on many issues, but especially it's racist roots?

Wrong on Race uncovers a hidden past that many Democrats would rather see swept under the carpet. Ranging from the founding of the Republic through to today, it rectifies the unfair perceptions of America's two national parties. While Nixon's infamous "Southern Strategy" is constantly referenced in the media, less well remembered are Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the entire Federal civil service; FDR's appointment of a member of the KKK to the Supreme Court; John F. Kennedy's apathy towards civil rights legislation; and the ascension of Robert Byrd, who is current President pro tempore of the Senate, third in line in the presidential line of succession, and a former member of the KKK.

Bartlett's chronicle of the Democratic Party's sordid past…offer illuminating evidence that, despite great marks of progress, race's stranglehold on the nation's collective conscious remains as strong as ever. (Washington Post Book World)

Bruce Bartlett brandishes a damning history of the Democratic Party, which for 100 years after the Civil War provided a fertile ground for Jim Crow and white supremacy. Democrats have long acted behind an ethos of racial equality, yet, as Bartlett powerfully illustrates, the reality of their patchy record over the last two centuries in fact lends little credibility to that claim. Compelling and incisive. (Grover G. Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform)

Wrong on Race is an important contribution to the study of party politics in America. Bartlett offers a thorough, well documented account of the racial roots of the Democratic party. This book should be a required reading for African-Americans of all ages, and especially for the nation's youth. (Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University, and editor of Debating Immigration)

Wrong on Race powerfully recapitulates a twentieth century journey into racial pettifogging and outright confusion, and in doing so shines a light as clear as the meridian sun on the realities of racial politics…Bruce Bartlett has done what no one before him has done, and it is all the more remarkable, therefore, to say that it will probably never be better done. (Professor William B. Allen, Michigan State University; and former chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission)

The Democratic party is widely credited, not least by black writers, as the party that has done the most for civil rights. Yet for most of its history it has been the other way around. As Bruce Bartlett points out in Wrong on Race, Democratic icons like Woodrow Wilson worked to impose segregation on blacks, and even Franklin Roosevelt did little for equal rights. (Michael Barone, syndicated columnist, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, and author of Our First Revolution)

 

[Dave007inVegas]

 

[SmallDaddy]

Could we see Romney's miliitary picture? Or Huckabee's, Ted Cruz's, Rubio's and Rand Paul's. The Donald's maybe

 

[SmallDaddy]

As for POTUS candidates, Ronnie was the last "radical right" candidate the R's put atop their ticket..

Ronnie, going by his actions, was a RINO

 

[SmallDaddy]

That fits the actions of the military as well

 

[SmallDaddy]

BTW Guesser, telling brainwashed people that they had been brainwashed is an exercise in futility

 

[JohnnyMac]

BTW Guesser, telling brainwashed people that they had been brainwashed is an exercise in futility

Hahaha

 

[Enfuego]

That fits the actions of the military as well

The U.S. Military performs their actions based on the direction of their civilian leaders.

 

[NFLTrends]

I think all media outlets now-days "Brainwash" (such a strong term), to appease their viewer base.

Its all about rating and selling ad's, and creating a huge audience of people watching and hearing what they want.

Why I don't watch any of the media outlets much, except for a laugh, or for some breaking news just to get the basics of what happened.

The media now days is a joke.

 

[Willie99]

I wonder if the maggot sewer rat that started this thread will tout Bruce Bartlett's excoriating of the Democrat party on many issues, but especially it's racist roots?

Wrong on Race uncovers a hidden past that many Democrats would rather see swept under the carpet. Ranging from the founding of the Republic through to today, it rectifies the unfair perceptions of America's two national parties. While Nixon's infamous "Southern Strategy" is constantly referenced in the media, less well remembered are Woodrow Wilson's segregation of the entire Federal civil service; FDR's appointment of a member of the KKK to the Supreme Court; John F. Kennedy's apathy towards civil rights legislation; and the ascension of Robert Byrd, who is current President pro tempore of the Senate, third in line in the presidential line of succession, and a former member of the KKK.

Bartlett's chronicle of the Democratic Party's sordid past…offer illuminating evidence that, despite great marks of progress, race's stranglehold on the nation's collective conscious remains as strong as ever. (Washington Post Book World)

Bruce Bartlett brandishes a damning history of the Democratic Party, which for 100 years after the Civil War provided a fertile ground for Jim Crow and white supremacy. Democrats have long acted behind an ethos of racial equality, yet, as Bartlett powerfully illustrates, the reality of their patchy record over the last two centuries in fact lends little credibility to that claim. Compelling and incisive. (Grover G. Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform)

Wrong on Race is an important contribution to the study of party politics in America. Bartlett offers a thorough, well documented account of the racial roots of the Democratic party. This book should be a required reading for African-Americans of all ages, and especially for the nation's youth. (Carol Swain, Professor of Political Science and Law, Vanderbilt University, and editor of Debating Immigration)

Wrong on Race powerfully recapitulates a twentieth century journey into racial pettifogging and outright confusion, and in doing so shines a light as clear as the meridian sun on the realities of racial politics…Bruce Bartlett has done what no one before him has done, and it is all the more remarkable, therefore, to say that it will probably never be better done. (Professor William B. Allen, Michigan State University; and former chairman, U.S. Civil Rights Commission)

The Democratic party is widely credited, not least by black writers, as the party that has done the most for civil rights. Yet for most of its history it has been the other way around. As Bruce Bartlett points out in Wrong on Race, Democratic icons like Woodrow Wilson worked to impose segregation on blacks, and even Franklin Roosevelt did little for equal rights. (Michael Barone, syndicated columnist, co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, and author of Our First Revolution)

y'know the worst thing about this Zit? they now sell a narrative that those Democrats are modern day republicans. They argue dixiecrats became republicans when only one did. They forget dixiecrats included the likes of the esteemed Robert Byrd, who they reelected until he died. It included Senator Al Gore, who was replaced by Senator Al Gore when he retired, and it included Senator J William Fulbright, whom President William Jefferson Clinton proudly calls his mentor. They're intellectually dishonest to their core.

they argue the south votes republican because they're racists, while ignoring the fact that they win the north because of the 90/10 african american inner-city vote (would that not be an example of racism in their world?). They're intellectually shortsighted and naive.

and when one argues it's all about a racist vs nonracist vote as opposed to the urban vs suburban vote, well that person is just POS, not worthy of serious discussion

yes, that is the modern day democratic party when it comes to race relations

always remember, "KNOW YOUR ENEMIES", Those three words alone speak volumes about Barrack Obama, a fraud from head to toe, pure fucking scum. A racist man who never wanted to be my president

 

[Willie99]

BTW Guesser, telling brainwashed people that they had been brainwashed is an exercise in futility

need a brain to be brainwashed, y'all fail the prerequisite

 

[The Guesser]

BTW Guesser, telling brainwashed people that they had been brainwashed is an exercise in futility

Yeah, I get that. Most of them are too far gone and proudly reside in their bubble. But for the sane among us it's interesting, and adds entertainment value seeing the brainwashed fools not realizing they're brainwashed fools.