{"id":9690,"date":"2013-05-18T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T17:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9690"},"modified":"2013-05-18T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T00:18:53","slug":"fox-news-proud-to-be-troglodytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9690","title":{"rendered":"Fox News Troglodytes Cheer Beefcake Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"

A visit to the Fox News community web site, Fox Nation, is always an adventure that yields surprises and curiosities. But even amongst the brazen lies and flagrant distortions<\/a>, there are some gems of idiocy that stand out. For instance…<\/p>\n

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In an item about a study on “the Ancestral Logic of Politics,”<\/em><\/a> the Fox Nationalists slapped on a this headline: “Strong Men Lean Conservative,”<\/em> In doing so they have made their best case yet for the right-wing sloganeering to “Take our country back – to the Stone Age.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The study referenced in the article examined and compared data on bicep size, socioeconomic status, and support for economic redistribution. What the researchers concluded was that upper-body strength “may reflect psychological traits that evolved in response to our early ancestral environments.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In other words, physically domineering specimens were more inclined to take what they want and refuse to share. Sounds pretty much like every Randian Teabagger in the GOP (Greedy One Percent). It is a perfect description of the rightist ideology of self-interest above all. It’s what shapes the Republican agenda of opposing regulations that protect people, as well as taxes used to provide food, housing, and other social services to the sick, the elderly, and the poor (known to right-wingers as “the weak”<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The Fox interpretation of this study is typically shallow in that they regard physical strength in the same way that our Neanderthal ancestors did – as a class-based asset. The more powerful members of the community were once elevated to leadership posts by virtue of their ability to bully everybody else. And that’s pretty much the way Tea-publicans want it to be today, although they have modified the definition of strength to include financial muscle. Hence their reverence for (and subservience to) wealthy upper-crusters like the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n

It’s rather amusing that Fox chose to illustrate their posting with body-builder-turned-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger – a pot-smoking, pro-choice, steroidal, Hollywood mogul, environmentalist, who married a Kennedy and then cheated on her (fathering a child with his Guatemalan maid). What better role model for the egocentric selfishness of modern conservatism that is so smitten with swaggering blowhards and chicken-hawks?<\/p>\n

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