{"id":20,"date":"2005-09-15T11:26:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-15T17:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/\/its-hard-work\/"},"modified":"2005-09-15T11:32:27","modified_gmt":"2005-09-15T17:32:27","slug":"its-hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/its-hard-work\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Hard Work!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Villanucci, whose claim to fame is he is a talk-radio host, has a love letter to the Bush <\/p>\n

Administration in today’s Albuquerque Journal.<\/p>\n

After spending a day in a situation that cult deprogrammers call “love bombing,” <\/p>\n

Villanucci wants us all to know that BushCo is full of smart people. This is important because smart people can relate to everyone, smart <\/p>\n

people are never arrogant or distant, smart people never lie and, above all else, smart people are never wrong (so never admiting a <\/p>\n

mistake is appropriate behavior for smart people). Not that Villanucci said it that way, he just said they’re really, really smart and <\/p>\n

lets you fill in the blanks. Just as he is sure you’ll see the connection to cops killed in Albuquerque — keeping us safe is all one <\/p>\n

big job, from street corner to Iraq.<\/p>\n

Among our shepherds is the young Bryan White, one of Bush’s “good people doing hard work.” <\/p>\n

He got up at 5:45am! Now it’s 7:40pm! and, gasp, “he’s still working, talking to New Mexico, getting out the message<\/em>.” <\/p>\n

Indeed, that’s what it’s all about: getting out the message. The smart guys of BushCo are all spin doctors.<\/strong> The most <\/p>\n

important thing Villanucci says here is: “This administration is the first to effectively utilize talk radio<\/em>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

From administration officials’ standpoint and the standpoint of many Americans, all of the news coming out of Iraq is bad news, and <\/p>\n

the only fair shake the administration gets is on talk radio<\/strong>. And they want to get out their side of the story.” On <\/p>\n

every matter, including science, BushCo has “their side of the story.” And, more frightening, they know how to get their version of the <\/p>\n

truth directly to willing listeners. Notice Villanucci is proud of his part in the process.<\/p>\n

It is completely appropriate to ask if <\/p>\n

Villanucci actually wrote this piece — many “articles” and videos praising BushCo are actually produced by the marketing department. It <\/p>\n

is also appropriate to ask if Villanucci was paid for this or his cozy broadcast among the stars from the Pentagon courtyard (where, <\/p>\n

you’ll be glad to know, “you feel really safe. You realize our defense budget is money well spent.” You are getting sleepy, your leaders <\/p>\n

are great, no graft or even waste here.).<\/p>\n

Of course, every regime depends upon a large number of unpaid lackeys, willing dupes, <\/p>\n

and fools. Perhaps Villanucci is simply one of those. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Listen Up: Some of the Nation’s Best Are <\/p>\n

Talking<\/a> By Jim Villanucci, KKOB-AM talk show host<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Villanucci, whose claim to fame is he is a talk-radio host, has a love letter to the Bush Administration in today’s Albuquerque Journal. After spending a day in a situation that cult deprogrammers call “love bombing,” Villanucci wants us all to know that BushCo is full of smart people. This is important because smart … Continue reading It’s Hard Work!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}