History Channel Bushevik Pravda II: French Revolution caused by

[tom_paine]

"a desire for less governmental interference in their lives and lower taxes."

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

"Farenheit 451" is now coming more fully true (no mass book burnings, yet, but we are sort of leaving them as Bradbury predicted). The details are starting to become clear. "1984" and "Animal Farm", too. Comrade Squealer is all around us. I saw him this morning on the History Channel.

The French Revolution was caused by a number of things, from Royal Absolutism and a lack of food to an inequitable taxation system which was borne by the poor and middle-class, and a French government that had bankrupted itself.

To describe it in the terms that the History Channel described it this morning, sounding almost IDENTICAL to Bushevik Imperial Dogma, is to say the LEAST disingenuous.

I would say Orwellian, but even that word seems too tame.

Insanity.

We are witnessing the Busheviks moving out of their political realms to use their influence, money and power to silence all other voice and create the Perfect Totalitarian revisionism.

This has always happened with Totalitarians. ALWAYS.

The struggle is a light one now as we are able to employ all the means of the state (including the judiciary). In addition, he noted the Radio and press are at our disposal.

Jopspeh Goebbels Diary Entry

The details of how this odious and flip lie got on the special is almost irrelevant. probably not the Soviet way, but more subtle and Amerikan, such as a list of the "right" professors or some other method.

But there it was, and this has happened dozens of times.

The French Revolutionaries were JUST LIKE the Bushviks and their McMansions and SUVs.

Exactly like them, don't you know...

[bleedingheart]

1. That is exactly the reason I don't watch TV much anymore

because it is full of propaganda.

[Eloriel]

2. Oh brother. Now they're co-opting the French Revolution?

Whew, that's going some. Unbelievable. And you're right, this kind of thing puts Orwell to shame for his limited thinking. :-(

[Neecy]

3. here's another good one

On the History Channel's Pearl Harbor program last night, they told us in serious, grave tones that after the Japanese attack, "Pacifists became patriotic", as though these are mutually exclusive terms.

They're really hopeless.

[UTUSN]

4. AND They Said James MADISON Was Like Shrub

In the 1812 War program, they said that MADISON fled D.C. as the Brits were invading "like (Shrub) on 9-11, because he/they needed time to think, to collect themselves, to plan..." (not an exact quote).

And in the months after 9-11, they were running "patriotic commercials" featuring Shrub in triumph-of-the-will poses, with thundering music, and echo chamber words. It's tough to make words like "Ummm ... duh ... Who cares what you think" sound heroic.

[dumpster_baby]

5. ((SIGH))...this has NOTHING TO DO with Bush!!!

THe only reason Bush was able to be President instead of being laughed out of the primaries is that the stage was set for him DECADES ago by a massive onslaught of media and entertainment propaganda funded by the wealthy and the corporations via think tanks and foundations.

THEY set the agenda, THEY manufactured consent, THEY creared a worldview, THEY built a lexicon. And once that RightWing world was created, Reagan and the Bushes just walked right in and pushed all the right buttons.

THat is why electing Kerry is not the most important thing--making Americans realize what has happened is the most important thing.

What you are watching is just more output from the Rightwing propaganda MACHINE that Bush took ADVANTAGE OF, but it really has nothing to do with Bush himself.

[pretzel4gore]

6. DU is a tonic....

listening to local radio ('yeh after Rather got caught trying to lie about bush for the democrats...')! it is too awful for words...the lies are endless and they're so obvious...thank God for DU, and such posts as yours!
I recall that moralistic half wit David Frum (or wasit George Will?) saying that the fall of the Berlin Wall in '89 was actually the end of the French Revolution!! mygod that freak needs a punch in the mouth! With wilful ignorance like that represented by the mediawhores, only brute force or threat thereof, can drive them rabid dogs off...

[Neecy]

7. hmmmmm

Wow, now I'm sort of intrigued by this. How in the world did he equate the fall of communism with the end of the French Revolution? Personally, I don't see the connection, unless he's equating the fall of a secular system with the end of secularism in France (which has hardly happened).

[dumpster_baby]

8. socialism started with the french revolution!

Freedom is slavery, etc.

[pretzel4gore]

9. the ideas of the french revolution

are so basic to modern world it's impossible to imagine they were ever revolutionary....and frum/will (whoever) ignores history in order to say, in effect, the wealthy and powerful are better educated and have virtues which us 'common people' lack...we are the 'mob' the great unwashed, ie the easily duped, and if the dupers want to interfere with the top down patriarchy then they are evil- to the extent communism, which enslaved billions and murdered millions (damn them monsters!)- proves. Frump, or was it the geewill(?), made their silly argument in a rightwing neocon newspaper, and it disappeared down the old memory hole (the intellectual perverts' best most trusty asset)
One effect of the 'privileged few' running everything is that our understanding of history itself is warped because its writers were hiclass...warped in some cases so badly that guys like Robespierre become synonomous with unreasoned cruelty...but it's interesting to note the french tried to outlaw slavery and planned to give everybody the vote (the 'weirdos' even thought women were entitled!) The entire french revolution has been bad mouthed (see 'tale of 2 cities'by dickens; the scarlet pimpernel etc) and its leaders, Danton, Marat, Robespierre etc, demonised or so obscure few heard of them: nevertheless, though the revolution eventually derailed, Napoleon incorporated many of its best ideas, and they've become universal, at least until reagan began the reversal...that's where frum, geewill, limbo, tweetybird, cnn, foxnews geebush etc come in
we needa bring back the gullotine...
;)