Chris Hedges - The Last Gasp of American Democracy

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44. You had me until this...

"Obsequious courtiers posing as journalists dutifully sanctify state power and amplify its falsehoods—MSNBC does this as slavishly as Fox News—while also filling our heads with the inanity of celebrity gossip and trivia."

Chris... How could you equate Rachael Maddow, Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton (MSNBC's prime time lineup) with the likes of Hannity, O'Reilly and Fox Commentator Sarah Palin?

Particularly three days after Rachael Maddow told attorneys for the Koch Brothers to 'go pee up a rope' on national TV after they had demanded that she read a script on the air absolving their Koch billionaire clients of any involvement in right wing "Dark Money" schemes which she had previously exposed.

If anything, Rachael is an enemy of the Corporate State. Your attempt to label her network-- and by extension, her-- as a Fox-style sycophant for Corporate power detracts from the intellectual vigor and integrity of an otherwise prescient and vitally important piece of journalism. In your headlong rush to condemn every facet of modern surveillance state, you have gone a rhetorical bridge too far.

Fox News and MSNBC are not the same. Fox strives to make lies possible. MSNBC attempts, albeit with limited effectiveness, to entertain by sometimes disclosing the lies.

So go and sin no more... and thank you for this timely and insightful call to arms.