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The Campaign of Hate and Fear, by Orson Scott Card
by noteworthy at 2:45 pm EST, Nov 25, 2004

This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on December 16, 2003. If you missed it then, it's worth a read, especially in light of the Democrats' failures in October 2004.

The Democrats' platforms range from Howard Dean's "Bush is the devil" to everybody else's "I'll make you rich, and Bush is quite similar to the devil." Since President Bush is quite plainly not the devil, one wonders why anyone in the Democratic Party thinks this ploy will play with the general public.

There are Democrats, like me, who think it will not play, and should not play, and who are waiting in the wings until after the coming electoral debacle in order to try to remake the party into something more resembling America.

RE: The Campaign of Hate and Fear, by Orson Scott Card
by Decius at 1:49 pm EST, Nov 27, 2004

noteworthy wrote:
] This article appeared in The Wall Street Journal on December
] 16, 2003. If you missed it then, it's worth a read,
] especially in light of the Democrats' failures in October
] 2004.

After Card's anti-gay screeds I have a hard time taking him seriously. This essay, in which he parrots Rush Limbaugh's "liberal media" meme and claims the Democrats lost Vietnam, while claiming to be a Democrat, does little to earn him credibility in my mind.

Its possible that so many people don't see things your way because you're the one thats crazy.

Furthermore, the Republican anti-media campaign is a friend in the conflict over public information systems that eliminates the need for enemies. They are opposed to the media because its not partisan enough, and because it asks tough questions where they would prefer not to be criticized. Its now almost impossible to have a frank conversation about what is wrong with the media without having people immediately assume that you are talking about its "liberal bias..." Without having overweight people start beaming at you and asking what you think of Fox.

The problems with the media are structural and not partisan.