What is the Core Motivation of the Anti-Media Elite Republicans?
My guess? It is a deep, yet unrecognized realization that they really are not very nice, or likable people, and never will be popular enough, and it is that sense of shame in never being good enough that drives all the direct media criticism, bet it either the "They are biased in favor of Liberals," bit, or the,"They are mean to us," bit.
Now this has been on my mind again, on account of that propagandist Ziegler doing the rounds, whoring his (I won't even call it a documentary, but instead) propaganda piece called,"Media Malpractice." This the movie which is based on the premise that the media deliberately tanked Sarah Palin's image. Ok. Let me deal with the basics here. I know my 'Nanook of the North,' documentary production theory, and Ziegler is so far away from even that sort of hum buggery that the next closest fair point of comparison is Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's master propagandist. And I make the comparison only on the point of deliberately making deliberate propaganda, deliberately. Yes, every so called documentary filmmaker is, to a point, an essayist. Just as some essay writer or commentator sits down and describes what they subjectively think and want to express, so does a documentary filmmaker. But few lie so shamelessly about it, as Ziegler does. I saw some tape from earlier this week where he was histrionically shouting how his movie was about the truth, truth, truth, about media bias. (Need I say how tiresome that act is, to sentient creatures?)
But let's get back to the core of the Republican neurosis of the anti-media bias bias, being the end result of a overcompensating reverse shame spiral, shall we? And I will hold up Succubus Sarah as exhibit one. Let us recap what was the specific things she specifically put out there in the media, about herself, that she wanted to project:
Gun chick, hunting chick, shoot a moose and cut and drain the blood out of it, chick. Pit bull with lipstick chick. Every Alaskan including me will get paid if we,"Drill baby drill," chick. Never saw a dollar from the federal government that we Alaskans would not take, chick. Lie about how self sufficient Alaska is, chick. Lie about the bridge to nowhere, chick. Actually sold the State Jet at a loss through a broker cause I could not get a decent price for it on Ebay (*suprise*), chick. I know about foreign policy cause Alaska is close to Russia, chick. Flirtatiously wink at the TV camera, repeatedly, during a nationally televised Vice Presidential Candidate Debate, chick.
I am going to stop there, but the point is, there is a small percentage of Americans who would find her an attractive person or an attractive politician. Most would reject her. Most actually did, actually. In the real world, she would be that person at the party that you would want to get away from ASAP, if they trapped you in a conversation. And I am not saying that all Republicans are that socially inept and possessing of an impossible personality, but she is a perfect example of what I am talking about. She knows precisely that her appeal is a low percentage number of the whole. She may think that anyone who does not think that her moose killin' blood drainin' gun totin', bullshit ass is all that and and bag of chips is dead wrong about her, up there in the conscious part of her head. But deeper down she knows she is no better than the stale fried potato crumbs at the bottom of the bag, 3 days after it was opened.
And that is the beginning cognitive dissonance, and dysfunction. Deep (or perhaps not so deep) down the Republicans actually want to be loved and admired widely. They want to be seen as hip, cool. They want to be seen as the kind of people who all sorts of people, not merely the rest of the weirdo kids in the oddball club house, want to emulate. But they are not willing to give up their narrow-thinking, and backwards-acting conduct. And the cool kids do not act or think that way. The cool kids do not wake up and go to church from 8am till noon on a Sunday. The cool kids are at best only a couple hours into sleep, after the after hours party, and they will wake up at noon, and go meet the rest of the cool kids somewhere, to have some Bloody Marys or attend a Champagne Jazz Brunch.
So they know they are not ever going to be the cool kids. And that makes them feel inadequate. And just like the inadequate-feeling child, they will outwardly blame anyone but themselves. They will insult the cool kids and bitch endlessly about how mean and bad those cool kids are, or if they are really delusional they will start to say that they are the REAL cool kids, no matter the fact they are still eating their own boogers in plain sight.
Or, in this case, they concoct insane conspiracy theories about how the media is against them, or totally in the tank for the the other guy. Even if on some deep level they can know that they are lacking in the very qualities that would make them popular, they really can't accept that reality. So instead of dealing with it and undergoing an Oprah Style Makeover, they sit and stew in their own bile, and fall deeper into their own shame spiral, while inventing monsters and conspiracies that are trying to keep them down. God forbid they deal with how it is their own backward-thinking and weird-acting that is keeping them down.
Honestly, I did not have the following song in mind when I stared this post, but as I got further into the process, the theme of "popular" got louder and louder in my head. So here goes. And just to be clear, no one in their right mind would confuse the GOP with Glinda. LOL.
(Granted the song is focused on the superfical aspect of popularity, but the point is, Republicans want to be adored, widely, but are not willing to make the changes that would make them more appealing. So instead of getting more popular they get less and less so. And they blame others for their un coolness by condeming those who do not like them. Real mature, that.)
Now this has been on my mind again, on account of that propagandist Ziegler doing the rounds, whoring his (I won't even call it a documentary, but instead) propaganda piece called,"Media Malpractice." This the movie which is based on the premise that the media deliberately tanked Sarah Palin's image. Ok. Let me deal with the basics here. I know my 'Nanook of the North,' documentary production theory, and Ziegler is so far away from even that sort of hum buggery that the next closest fair point of comparison is Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's master propagandist. And I make the comparison only on the point of deliberately making deliberate propaganda, deliberately. Yes, every so called documentary filmmaker is, to a point, an essayist. Just as some essay writer or commentator sits down and describes what they subjectively think and want to express, so does a documentary filmmaker. But few lie so shamelessly about it, as Ziegler does. I saw some tape from earlier this week where he was histrionically shouting how his movie was about the truth, truth, truth, about media bias. (Need I say how tiresome that act is, to sentient creatures?)
But let's get back to the core of the Republican neurosis of the anti-media bias bias, being the end result of a overcompensating reverse shame spiral, shall we? And I will hold up Succubus Sarah as exhibit one. Let us recap what was the specific things she specifically put out there in the media, about herself, that she wanted to project:
Gun chick, hunting chick, shoot a moose and cut and drain the blood out of it, chick. Pit bull with lipstick chick. Every Alaskan including me will get paid if we,"Drill baby drill," chick. Never saw a dollar from the federal government that we Alaskans would not take, chick. Lie about how self sufficient Alaska is, chick. Lie about the bridge to nowhere, chick. Actually sold the State Jet at a loss through a broker cause I could not get a decent price for it on Ebay (*suprise*), chick. I know about foreign policy cause Alaska is close to Russia, chick. Flirtatiously wink at the TV camera, repeatedly, during a nationally televised Vice Presidential Candidate Debate, chick.
I am going to stop there, but the point is, there is a small percentage of Americans who would find her an attractive person or an attractive politician. Most would reject her. Most actually did, actually. In the real world, she would be that person at the party that you would want to get away from ASAP, if they trapped you in a conversation. And I am not saying that all Republicans are that socially inept and possessing of an impossible personality, but she is a perfect example of what I am talking about. She knows precisely that her appeal is a low percentage number of the whole. She may think that anyone who does not think that her moose killin' blood drainin' gun totin', bullshit ass is all that and and bag of chips is dead wrong about her, up there in the conscious part of her head. But deeper down she knows she is no better than the stale fried potato crumbs at the bottom of the bag, 3 days after it was opened.
And that is the beginning cognitive dissonance, and dysfunction. Deep (or perhaps not so deep) down the Republicans actually want to be loved and admired widely. They want to be seen as hip, cool. They want to be seen as the kind of people who all sorts of people, not merely the rest of the weirdo kids in the oddball club house, want to emulate. But they are not willing to give up their narrow-thinking, and backwards-acting conduct. And the cool kids do not act or think that way. The cool kids do not wake up and go to church from 8am till noon on a Sunday. The cool kids are at best only a couple hours into sleep, after the after hours party, and they will wake up at noon, and go meet the rest of the cool kids somewhere, to have some Bloody Marys or attend a Champagne Jazz Brunch.
So they know they are not ever going to be the cool kids. And that makes them feel inadequate. And just like the inadequate-feeling child, they will outwardly blame anyone but themselves. They will insult the cool kids and bitch endlessly about how mean and bad those cool kids are, or if they are really delusional they will start to say that they are the REAL cool kids, no matter the fact they are still eating their own boogers in plain sight.
Or, in this case, they concoct insane conspiracy theories about how the media is against them, or totally in the tank for the the other guy. Even if on some deep level they can know that they are lacking in the very qualities that would make them popular, they really can't accept that reality. So instead of dealing with it and undergoing an Oprah Style Makeover, they sit and stew in their own bile, and fall deeper into their own shame spiral, while inventing monsters and conspiracies that are trying to keep them down. God forbid they deal with how it is their own backward-thinking and weird-acting that is keeping them down.
Honestly, I did not have the following song in mind when I stared this post, but as I got further into the process, the theme of "popular" got louder and louder in my head. So here goes. And just to be clear, no one in their right mind would confuse the GOP with Glinda. LOL.
(Granted the song is focused on the superfical aspect of popularity, but the point is, Republicans want to be adored, widely, but are not willing to make the changes that would make them more appealing. So instead of getting more popular they get less and less so. And they blame others for their un coolness by condeming those who do not like them. Real mature, that.)
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