The Audacity of Hype
What's Obama's answer?
by
Justin Raimondo
by Justin Raimondo
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 The
Obama bandwagon is moving fast and furious, rolling over the few
remaining pockets of dissent even as it prepares
to take power. The mainstream media, particularly on television,
has lost all
sense of objectivity and proportion, and their reporting of the
president-elect's doings has taken on a distinctly Soviet
air. "Our
Glorious Leader Picks the White House Dog" is the emblematic
headline of a servile fourth estate. The political atmosphere is
positively eerie: amid calls for "unity"
and attacks on "toxic"
language that is "divisive," there is an odd uniformity
of thought similar to the virtual unanimity that gripped
the nation in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Groupthink
is all the rage, and the media has joined in the fun. Due to this
love-fest, they're oblivious to the warning
signs that worry us few and scattered skeptics. They somehow
missed the
Dear Leader's call for a civilian "national security force,"
for example, one that is "just as well-funded" and "just
as powerful" as the U.S. military.
Media Matters
for America, which is shaping up rather
nicely as Obama's semi-official media shill, claims
Obama's remarks were just about expanding the already existing Americorps
program and the president-elect was taken out of context. Yet his
words speak for themselves, as do the words of his recently chosen
chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who declared
in his book:
"It's
time for a real PATRIOT Act that brings out the patriot in all
of us. We propose universal civilian service for every young American.
Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and
twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through
three months of basic training, civil defense preparation, and
community service."
Some Republicans,
Rahm brays, "will squeal about individual freedom." Well,
let's hope that part isn't true. Because if it's only Republicans
who object to this militaristic scheme to solve the unemployment
problem by outfitting the out-of-work with spiffy new uniforms,
then we're really in a lot more trouble than even I imagined.
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the rest of the article
November
13, 2008
Justin
Raimondo [send him mail]
is editorial director of Antiwar.com and is the author of An
Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard and Reclaiming
the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement.
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© 2008 Antiwar.com
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