Tip o' the hat to friend of the blog Don Q for this from Kevin Drum. (Sorry, pop up ad is a bit hard to get rid of.) I recently attributed our national decline into madness and depravity to Faux News, but Drum does a more careful analysis and systematically rules out other suspects. Yes, they have accomplices, and they draw on some deeply embedded national pathologies, but Rupert Murdoch is the Professor Moriarity, the Dark Lord, the Godfather of our woes.
He actually launched his invasion of the U.S. back in the 1980s, while I was in graduate school for public policy, and we noticed it even then. He was buying up newspapers, which still mattered, and local TV stations, and he was hawking outrageous garbage even then. Yes, he developed a symbiosis with The Vulgar Pigboy* and other shit peddlers, but they wouldn't have been nearly as effective without Murdoch. It's nice that Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, but back when he was the de facto President of the United States he spent more time on Faux News and Pigboy's show than he did with his hand up Chimpy's back.
Murdoch gave us the Iraq war, and now he's given us Orange Adolf. Hopefully he'll die very soon, but he's trying to leave his evil empire to his son Lachlan who has pledged to carry on as the new Dr. Evil. That's being contested in court right now, so let's hope for the best.
*That's the late unlamented Rush Limbaugh for those who haven't been paying attention.
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