The Daily Flashback

The Fairness Doctrine & Right Wing Talk - The Smirking Chimp
"...The right wing realized that advancing their agenda required real trickery. If Americans understood the right wing’s goals they’d tar and feather ‘em and run ‘em outa town. A light bulb went on in conservative heads. They’d set up “Think Tanks!” These “Tanks” would manufacture little bombs, or sound bites. Rabid, dope addled T.V. and talk radio hosts would throw them at the liberals. It was a wonderful match. Right wing “Think Tanks” (Who but a conservative could have the effrontery, and the arrogance, to come up with a misnomer like “Think Tank”) such as The Hoover Foundation, The Cato Institute, The Heritage Foundation, would invent stories they’d offer as fact. Sometimes they got caught, but they knew their viewer/listeners attention spans were even less than their IQ’s. ABC news, after harsh criticism from high ranking, Congressional Democrats, admitted that their documentary “The Path to 9/11” was largely fabricated and designed to smear the Clinton Administration. They conceded the film was a “fantasy version of history,” and reclassified the film calling it a dramatization, not a documentary..."