Weaving Straw Basket Cases 1
At Philly dot com, Chris Kelly considers how straw men (straw persons? straw crows? straw scarecrows? strawcrows?) are created and used to distract us from what’s happening.
A nugget:
It’s how Rush Limbaugh, who recently signed a $300 million contract to build and destroy legions of straw men every day, can claim he is a spokesman for the working class. It’s how Sarah Palin can be talked about as a serious candidate for president, and how a weepy basket case like Glenn Beck can be held up as the “only sane voice in the media.”
March 29, 2011 at 11:16 am
[…] the lead-in from a columnist at the Philly Inky, by way of Frank at Pine View Farm: Even the most specious arguments are granted legitimacy simply for having been made. Every opinion, […]