FLYING MONKEYS
by Malik Isasis




We are in the last few days of the election season and President Bush has opened the windows from his dark lair and has commanded his flying monkeys to do whatever it takes to win the elections for the Republicans and their conservative cabal. The neocon political mercenaries fly high over the masses dropping shit-bombs to divert attention away from the inept handling of the Iraq occupation. The American public appears wide-awake and is not being fooled by the trickery. Baghdad is covered in blood and destruction and the American public has taken notice. After Hurricane Katrina, America saw the Bush Administration for who they really are…frauds. It’s like they create crises, in order to pretend to be doing something about it. The Bush Administration’s and the neocons’ one-act play has run its course and they look pathetic as they recite with great conviction, tired slogans.
What is interesting about the Republican Party is the dept of their delusion. They have become so septic and foul that they don’t even try to hide the contempt that they have for the American people.

Senator John Kerry is the target for botching a joke about President Bush and Iraq. The flying monkeys have taken the botched joke, molested it and fed it through their
Right-wing echo chamber. What is frustrating is that the cable news and the punditry class have all begun parroting right-wing political points to appear even handed. This is why the flying monkeys are so successful. They are exceptional at changing the subject and making their complete corruption, and soulless acts of destruction, someone else’s. The corporate media tends to buy into their bullshit so that they won’t come off as unpatriotic and unfair. Their logic I can only guess is that since the Republican Party has been riddled with corruption coverage, its only fair to balance it out with a Democratic botched joke.

The Republican Party and their neoconic mercenaries are able to make a mountain out of a mole hill because they control the language and frame the debates, for example, calling the occupation in Iraq, a war. The war ended three years ago. We are now occupiers.

The political mercenaries use their infrastructure such as think-tanks, right-wing talk radio pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Shawn Hannity, bloggers like Matt Drudge, cable news such as CNN, MSNBC and the closest thing we have to State-run media, Fox News. The echo chamber starts with an allegation, next “columns are written on this theme, first in conservative media, but eventually appearing in mainstream media like the New York Times. This process can be used to turn an unsupported allegation or a partisan talking point into an "accepted fact" (Center for Media and Democracy).With 24 hour news, and thousands of media outlets, the echo chamber appears as groupthink or a glut of information, converging. However, the echo chamber is systematic and highly coordinated efforts by the neocons to affect a message. It is extremely effective.

Now, back to John Kerry. Within 24 hours, the flying monkeys were able to get the corporate media to cover this botched joke as if it were a real news story. They were able to give it some legs by pulling out the old chest nuts from the John Kerry’s 2004 Presidential bid. The corporate media sit on the side lines and watch as if what is going on is a spectator’s sport. The pundits began debating John Kerry’s character. Meanwhile, the characters in the White House and Pentegon continue to stay-the-course in a botched occupation.

What I find really appalling are the Democratic responses from Harold Ford, Jr. who said, “Whatever the intent, Senator Kerry was wrong to say what he said…He needs to apologize to our troops.” Hillary Clinton as predicitable as the sun rising from the east and setting in the west stated, “What Senator Kerry said was inappropiate” (William Roberts). These two corporate shills are trying to inoculate themselves from Republican criticism and curry favor with their critics. What they fail to understand is that the Republican Party hates Democrats and want to destroy them. Mr. Ford and Mrs. Clinton no matter how much you suck up to them, they will never love you.

In this bizarro world, President George Bush is able to joke about not finding Weapons of Mass Detruction at a dinner party. President George Bush is able to call the Iraq Occupation, “a comma.” This is one of those times I truly feel that I am in a matrix or something. Somebody, please pull the plug.


Sources:

Click here to see President George Bush joke about WMDs.
Now click here to read John Kerry’s joke.
Roberts, William Bloomberg News. “Kerry Apologizes for Comment on Iraq After Criticism”
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