RadioBanter - SPECIAL: Fox News Talking Head Sprouts a Conscience

On Apr 24, 6:50*am, dave wrote:
Bob Dobbs wrote:
wrote:
Huffingtonpost?

Good source of the type news that illustrates the errors of the Bush
conservatives, of course the knee jerk minions are trained to reject it..

They are quite closed minded. *I read Drudge and Freerepublic daily.
I've even been checking out the Fox Nation, but that's really
lightweight stuff.

If you knew anything, you'd realize that the Huffington Post has
opinions in the left column, straight news in the middle column, and
features on the right side of the page. *Opinion is clearly marked as
such. *Anybody capable of critical thinking would have no trouble
separating news from spin.

Useful Idiots are naïve, foolish, ignorant of facts, unrealistically
idealistic, dreamers, willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from
the ranks of the chronically unhappy, the anarchists, the aspiring
revolutionaries, the neurotics who are at war with life, the
disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about
any and all institutions of society. The Useful Idiot can be a
billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or from
any other segment of the population.

Arguably, the most dangerous Useful Idiot is the “Politically
Correct.” He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging,
doubletalk, and outright deception.

The Useful Idiot derives satisfaction from being anti-establishment.
He finds perverse gratification in aiding the forces that aim to
dismantle an existing order, whatever it may be: an order he neither
approves of nor he feels he belongs to.

The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside
himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness
while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted
perception.

Understandably, it is easier to blame others and the outside world
than to examine oneself with an eye to self-discovery and self-
improvement. Furthermore, criticizing and complaining—liberal
practices of the Useful Idiot—require little talent and energy. The
Useful Idiot is a great armchair philosopher and “Monday Morning
Quarterback.”

The Useful Idiot is not the same as a person who honestly has a
different point of view. A society without honest and open differences
of views is a dead society. Critical, different and fresh ideas are
the life blood of a living society—the very anathema of autocracies
where the official position is sacrosanct.

Even the “normal” spends a great deal more energy aiming to fix things
out there than working to overcome his own flaws and shortcomings, or
contribute positively to the larger society. People don’t like to take
stock of what they are doing or not doing that is responsible for the
conditions they disapprove.

The Useful Idiot, among other things, is a master practitioner of
scapegoating. He assigns blame to others while absolving himself of
responsibility, has a long handy list of candidates for blaming
anything and everything, and by living a distorted life, he
contributes to the ills of society.

The Useful Idiot may even engage in willful misinformation and
deception when it suits him.