Mychal Massie has long been a prolific spreader of hateful agitprop — his entire right-wing media career, which has now mostly dwindled to a WorldNetDaily column, was built on it — so it’s highly ironic to see him complain about others doing the same in an Aug. 28 column headlined “Too many people succumb to Trump-hating agitprop.” After approvingly quoting serial bomber Ted Kaczynski, of all people, ranting about “university intellectuals” who are supposedly “incapable of independent thought,” Massie got to the Trump-as-victim narrative:
Those who control the flow information are only moderate threats. Those who decide what the information shall be are the true threats, and they’re threats who go unchallenged. For decades they went sight unseen. That is, until Donald J. Trump ripped control from their hands with the help of you and me.
That they underestimated him and We the People the first time was “shame on them.” But, they’re determined to make sure that doesn’t happen again.
Massie actually got something right bynoting that “Fox News isn’t the friend of truth and/or factualism” and explaining why:
What is always missed is what I call the soap-opera addiction effect. That’s a formula that has successfully glued watchers to soap operas since the very first one aired going back to 1937, if you count radio. People watch news and information programming for the same reason some watch soap operas; there’s a formula in place that brings them back night after night. Just like soap-opera viewers, these viewers are addicted to the idea that they must hear what happened today. They must hear what so and so program host has to say about whatever event.
They fail to realize that they’re being programmed to believe whatever they’re told. They fail to realize that there are catch words and phrases used repeatedly that cause persons to receive and correlate certain information about a political candidate and/or a social issue.
But he then blew up that insight by lamenting that Fox News wasn’t programming its viewers to believe Trump is a great guy:
Enter President Trump. It’s a foregone conclusion that the leftists hate him. Much less apparent, however, is the extent that so-called right-wing conservatives hate him even more. You see, President Trump simply defeated the Democrats; but, in the mind of elite Republican, from their governing bodies to the elected to the shadowy wraiths micro-managing from the fog – Donald Trump is viewed as betraying them in the most unacceptable way possible. He actually puts us and America first.
The brainwashing of the voters is an alchemy of lies, innuendo and distortion. Repeated enough, people view the claims as words of wisdom by talking heads who are loathe to admit they’ve hidden agendas, not least of which is wealth and backslapping from their owners and handlers.
This is what the voters miss. Many think they get it, but in reality they are fallen prey to agitprop.
Of coruse, Massie’s claim that Trump “actually puts us and America first” is agitprop as well — in reality, there’s little evidence that Trump cares about anyone but himself.Massie concluded with more agitprop:
There’s a reason President Trump is hated by the powers on both sides of the aisle. It’s because the same dark forces control both sides. This is missed by voters who after the past six years should realize it. He’s the one who threatened the spigots of dollars the “owners of the order” feast upon.
Any candidate both sides are so determined to crush is someone worth supporting. If President Trump were the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan or head of some other subversive terrorist group, Democrats would love him. If he were a brown-nosed loser who talked tough and never accomplished a thing, Republicans would love him – as long as he helped them raise massive amounts of cash in so doing.
But, he’s neither, which why we love him.
Spoken like a true agitprop master. Ironic, huh?