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Apropos of the 1990s Rwanda talk radio man who incited the Hutu majority to exterminate the "cockroach Tutsis" (not to mention raping, hacking apart, and burying them alive), Media Matters for America traces the short but continuing history of a persistent McCain campaign smear of Barack Obama that has been spread and perpetuated relentlessly by the corporate media even though it has been authoritatively debunked by the likes of DC celebrity pundit Andrea Mitchell. And Mitchell is no lefty fellow traveler --- she regularly appears as an Atrios "Wanker of the Day." (Sorry, I can't find an example of Mitchell's wanking because Atrios doesn't provide us with a search engine for his site.)
This is how it's done by genocidal dictators: transform the mass media into an unrebutted echo chamber for hate speech. Create a scapegoat class through broadcast slander and then sic the fear-addled bigots on them. Are we almost there yet? With one more stolen presidential election, maybe.
Nighty night.
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