RedEye's Week in Review

This is something we all need to remember, especially with an election year coming up. Far too many politicians think if they tell a lie enough times, it will essentially become the truth. It won't!
h/t jobsanger RedEye's addendum, far too many media outlets enable far too many politicians to lie to us. It's time to occupy the FCC!

What do we call a government agency created to manage telephony, Internet, wireless, cable, and broadcasting in the public interest, but has been the captive of greedy corporations for decades? We call it the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission. What can we do when corrupt authorities like the FCC utterly forfeit their legitimacy, and just aren't listening? We can raise our voices. We can withdraw our consent. We can occupy their public space, which is really ours anyway.

What's that you say? Senate Republicans chose to raise taxes on nearly 160 million hardworking Americans? Who knew? Not we the people that's for sure thanks to the latest media enabled weapon of mass distraction.

So it was nice that Cain was getting attention. But the primaries are drawing near, and today he leads in some polls as the Republican nominee, the bulk of his support those very tea party types that conservative stalwarts could rely on to “get” their most decipherable dog whistles, such as Reagan announcing his run for the presidency in Mississippi, near where those legendary anti-state rights workers were killed.

Meanwhile under the radar..."You're Going To Detention!" Takes On A Sickening Sense Of Permanence

On Tuesday an ugly coalition of Republicans and mostly conservative Democrats beat back an amendment by Mark Udall (D-CO) to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012. The amendment, defeated 60-38 would have been a slap in the face to Obama, who threatened to veto it, so it may seem off that virtually all the Republicans backed up the president. It called for replacing the current rules on detention of terrorism suspects and called for military and intelligence officials to come up with their own blueprint on how to interrogate and hold detainees.

Psst! Occupy Austin, I know how it it feels when your Allotted Amount of Free Speech Has Expired!"

The Republican party believes government doesn't work and sets out to prove it when they're elected. Unfortunately, the more they demonstrate their thesis, the fewer people vote, making it ever easier for Republicans to get elected so that government functions even less ...

Vicious cycle, and we need to find a way out of it. h/t mooncat

I agree, but suppressing effective progressive voices is NOT who can counter the right wing, spin, machine is NOT the way out.

You can be sure: Republicans are willing to use legislation, our language, and our emotions--and not so much our intellect--to achieve their ends. We don't have to operate in the same fashion as they do, but we do have to be willing to expose their tactics, and deploy a counterattack to their attacks, lest the whole nation ends up in an oversize body bag. h/t Black Disapora

RedEye over and out..... for now.