“I guess the point I’m making,” he went on, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful. ..."
This is what David Brock was referring to in his terrific book, The Republican Noise Machine, and the Machine will be poisoning the body politic for quite some time whether or not Obama wins the election.
The second point Obama makes is troubling:
“If voters are similarly polarized and if they’re seeing two different realities, a Sean Hannity reality and a Keith Olbermann reality, then we’re not going to be able to get done the work we need to get done,”
This suggests an equivalence between the lying whore Hannity and Olbermann and that is simply false. It's true that Olbermann can go over the top once in a while but Hannity lies almost every day he's on the air. If we want to change things for the better, we have to destroy the credibility of the Republican Noise Machine and Hannity is an important part of that machine.
Later in the piece, Obama does indicate that he's very aware of how much crap FAUX News emits, so perhaps it's best to interpret his earlier Hannity-Olbermann comment not as some sort of validation of Hannity but as a confirmation of the effectiveness of the Machine.
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