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The Chaos of Political Rhetoric
How the media is tearing America apart for profit
Last night I pulled up CNN’s livestream to watch the news about Trump being shot. I tuned in just as Wolf Blitzer stated we need to quell rhetoric on both sides.
As the night went on, I heard this same comment on other livestreams repeatedly from different members of the media. And one disturbingly, and transparently, playing up emotions with some exceptionally bad acting about her feelings.
God, what a bunch of narcissists.
Media has been instigating rhetoric since the invention of media, itself. In 1800, during the election campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, it was the media that helped Jefferson drag Adams. With the help of a hatchet man named James Callendar he paid for a smear campaign (an early version of a political action committee, perhaps), he used the newspapers to accuse Adams of being a “hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.” In return, Adams’ men used the media to call Jefferson “a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.” So basically, a weak bitch, and an angry broke ass [insert slur against mulattos/blacks here]. Real mature.
