It’s easy to imagine Montgomery Burns in a mahogany study, doing that finger-steepling thing of his and whispering “Excellent!” at the Fox News, Newsmax, or OAN coverage of the “inflation crisis” in America today. Because it’s the same playbook that Right-Wing media has used time and again to persuade its viewers that their very way …

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For right-wing “news” outlets like Fox News, OAN, Newsmax and Breitbart, Christmas came early this year in the form of the Omicron variant of Covid-19. While The New York Times reports that Omicron Is Fast Moving, But Perhaps Less Severe, conservative media has quickly moved to use Omicron as another opportunity to indoctrinate its millions …

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By Philip T. Pearson After reading the recent Tweets of U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, it’s tempting to imagine that his Wisconsin constituency must be a bunch of mindless zombies: pacing the kitchens of their Middle-West ranch homes, baking a tater-tot casserole and getting angrier and angrier as they receive their daily directive from …

Are Our Neighbors Mindless Zombies? Probably Not. Read More »