http://nexilist.com/2007/09/13/fascism-whats-in-a-word/ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:11:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://nexilist.com/2007/09/13/fascism-whats-in-a-word/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Allen Webb Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:50:28 +0000 http://nexilist.com/?p=21#comment-7 Item 6 in the list above (control of media) helps explain it all. Conason has probably been burned before by the right-wing controlled media. I expect that he used a correct, truthful term but because it was too near the truth - he was badly beaten up. Frank Luntz has already done excessive research on the words to use to press the buttons of the right wingnuts. I wouldn't be surprized if he has done a lot of research on terms that the regressive press will not let be applied to their masters & cronies. But notice that the right wing press has appropriated the F word as an identifier for their enemies: "Islamo Facists". Virtually every time the right-wingers accuse their opponents of things like election stealing, you can be sure that they are 10 times as guilty of the crime. Item 6 in the list above (control of media) helps explain it all. Conason has probably been burned before by the right-wing controlled media. I expect that he used a correct, truthful term but because it was too near the truth – he was badly beaten up. Frank Luntz has already done excessive research on the words to use to press the buttons of the right wingnuts. I wouldn’t be surprized if he has done a lot of research on terms that the regressive press will not let be applied to their masters & cronies. But notice that the right wing press has appropriated the F word as an identifier for their enemies: “Islamo Facists”. Virtually every time the right-wingers accuse their opponents of things like election stealing, you can be sure that they are 10 times as guilty of the crime.

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