"Blinded by The Right" genre: Leftfield
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	So it turns out there really is "a vast right wing conspiracy". Who knew? Let us introduce you to them.
	CD: Talking Points   Label: Steaming Entrails
	Story Behind the Song The scandal machine is, in effect, a special-interest group financed by a handful of wealthy fanatics — men like the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose cultlike Unification Church owns The Washington Times, and Richard Mellon Scaife, who bankrolled the scandalmongering American Spectator and many other right-wing enterprises. It was effective because the typical news consumer didn't realize what was going on. The group's efforts managed to turn Whitewater — a $200,000 money-losing investment — into a byword for scandal, even though an eight-year, $73 million investigation never did find any evidence of wrongdoing by the Clintons. Just imagine what the scandal machine could have done with more promising raw material — such as the decidedly unusual business transactions of the young George W. Bush. But there is, of course, no comparable scandal machine on the left. Why not? One answer is that for some reason there is a level of anger and hatred on the right that has at best a faint echo in the anti-globalization left, and none at all in mainstream liberalism. Indeed, the liberals I know generally seem unwilling to face up to the nastiness of contemporary politics. It's also true that in the nature of things, billionaires are more likely to be right-wing than left-wing fanatics. When billionaires do support more or less liberal causes, they usually try to help the world, not take over the U.S. political system. Not to put too fine a point on it: While George Soros was spending lavishly to promote democracy abroad, Mr. Scaife was spending lavishly to undermine it at home. And his achievement is impressive; key figures from the Scaife empire are now senior officials in the Bush administration. (And Mr. Moon's newspaper is now in effect the administration's house organ.) Clearly, scandalmongering works: the public and, less excusably, the legitimate media all too readily assume that where there's smoke there must be fire — when in reality it's just some angry rich guys who have bought themselves a smoke machine. And the media are still amazingly easy to sucker. Just look at the way the press fell for the fraudulent tale of vandalism by departing Clinton staffers, or the more recent spread of the bogus story that Ken Lay stayed at the Clinton White House. Lyrics Rev. Sun Young Moon... Richard Mellon Scaife... Rupert Murdoch... Federalist Society... American Spectator... Washington Times... George Conway... Richard Porter... Ted Olson... Jerome Marcus... Robert Bork... Lucianne Goldberg... Matt Drudge... Ann Coulter... Linda Tripp... Jackie Bennett... Robert Ray... Roger Ailes... Kenneth Starr... Edie Holiday... C. Boyden Gray... Lynde and Harry Bradley... John M. Olin... American Enterprise Institute... Heritage Foundation... Sarah Scaife... Adolph Coors Family... Fox News... Christopher Ruddy... NewsMax... Brent Bozell... Andrew Sullivan... David Horowitz... Peggy Noonan... John Leo... Carl Limbacher... Michelle Malkin... Karen Hughes... Dick Army... Haley Barbour... Fred Barnes... Bob Barr... Gary Bauer... William Bennett... Bay Buchanan... Dan Burton... William casey... Whittaket Chambers... Lynn Cheney... Roy Cohn... James Dobson... Tom Delay... Bob Dornan... Jerry Falwell... Gennifer Flowers... Paul Gigot... Wall Street Journal editorial Board... Newt Gingrich... Phil and Wendy Gramm.... Orrin Hatch... Brit Hume... Micheal Isikoff.... Paula Jones... Joe Klein... Wayne LaPierre... Charlton Heston... Alan Keyes... Mary Matalin... Georgette Mosbacher... Grover Norquist... William Rehnquist... Norman Podhoretz... William Bradford Reynolds... Antonin Scalia... Phyllis Schafley... David Duke... Clarence and Ginny Thomas... Ben Wattenberg... Rush Limbaugh and... Bill O'Reilly

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