The Logic Of Terror Funding “Ties”

As much as Jon Stewart’s Daily Show has disappointed me for its shallowness over the last few years, and for how seriously it’s taken by people who shouldn’t, I cannot deny the absolutely perfect comparison that’s being made here–the way snide insinuations and “ties” get used to justify all sorts of paranoid logic.

And yes, Fox News IS guilty of playing this exact game. No, they aren’t the locus of evil in the media world, but it’s hard to deny just how much of this exact sort of logic is seen from their most prominent commentator hosts during non-news segments–and those non-news segments dominate their most popular hours of programming.

By the way, this is also what they did to try to smear the Swift Boat Vets for Truth. No one likes it when I say that one, but I interviewed those guys and it’s what was done to them, too, with the supposed web of right-wing donors “proving” this or that about them rather than asking what the basic truth or falsehood of their claims was. (I suppose I should find the links to those interviews, I will again if anyone cares, it’s been 6 years so but those interviews did get cited by the Library of Congress and permanently archived by them, you’d hope people could be objective about it by now.) Guilt-by-association is such a good way to create a distraction.