"A cookie and one more cigarette"

[struggle4progress]

Updated by Libby Nelson on February 11, 2016, 2:38 p.m. ET

... After a tense, anguished hour, Fry walked out, asking only that those outside the cabin shout "Hallelujah!" ...

His grievances were incoherent, ranging from rants about abortion in America to drone strikes to marijuana to the protests after Trayvon Martin's death. He said Obama was a traitor and that he didn't want to pay his taxes. He complained about preferential treatment for jailed Wall Street bankers and said he was afraid of being raped in prison.

As the conversation went on, he veered further into conspiracy, saying the government was "chemically mutating people" and talking about UFOs and the government suppressing inventions ...

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/11/10969080/oregon-standoff-david-fry

[trillion]

1. He's crazy. But really, so are the bulk of their supporters.

Paranoid infantile loons.

[valerief]

2. Ah, with the emphasis on infantile. Of course, the U.S. media and education system

reinforce the infantilization of our citizens.

[Todays_Illusion]

3. The saddest part of these stories is that the radio talkers and the money that paid them and

the station owners themselves will not face any consequences for creating all this anger and demanding that people "do something now," a statement I heard once made by Levin on his radio talk show back in 2009, referring to the Obama Presidency.

De-regulating radio, television and newspapers was labeled as necessary for freedom of speech
and of course the worst of all the repeal of the fairness doctrine.

These poor horribly mislead, misinformed and manipulated people are a direct result of of that, "free speech" deregulation.

Along with the near total control of all publishers, newspapers, radio and television stations and soon the internet into the hands of a very few people.

That includes PRI, NPR and PBS now that their funding is cut they must rely on conservative foundation and corporate sponsors to survive and that has turned them into nothing but tax supported conservative propaganda.

[Beartracks]

4. That list of grievances sounds like...

... something usually followed by, "All this and more on tonight's Hannity Show."