Can the Right Spin the Chilean Miners Story?

[Judi Lynn]

Published on Saturday, October 16, 2010 by CommonDreams.org
Can the Right Spin the Chilean Miners Story?
by Bob Katz

It will be fascinating to see how Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham struggle to spin the heroic Chilean miner rescue to their political ends.

It's not going to be easy.

It's not going to be easy to characterize the collectivist group dynamics at the heart of the miners' survival as damaging to those essential core values of personal freedom and unfettered pursuit of liberty that have made our nation, or any nation, great.

It's not going to be easy to recast the consensus decision-making and egalitarian group dynamics that allowed these 33 men to harmoniously ration an impossibly meager two-day food supply over their first harrowing 17 days underground as a desecration of the rugged individualism that fuels the crowing achievements of mankind.

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/16-4

[tridim]

1. They'll just ignore it. It doesn't get much easier than that.

It's not like their audience cares.

[Tutankhamun]

2. Another favorite trick is to make stuff up. Their audience's idea of fact checking is

making sure Limbaugh and Beck agree.

[stray cat]

3. Why is a rescue left or right?

[Judi Lynn]

4. Why not read the article? Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. n/t

[roseBudd]

5. An LTE to my paper said it was capitalism because the drill bit was made

by a corporation