Who Do You Blame Most For Poisoning The Political Culture?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[onehandle]

1. You forgot Captain Phone Sex. nt

[Captain Hilts]

Two Newts to vote for! NT

[Dennis Donovan]

2. All of the above, PLUS:

Donald Segretti
Lee Atwater
John Mitchell
Roger Stone

There's so many to list and sooo little time...

[Captain Hilts]

5. YES! Attwater brought us Willie Horton, etc. Glen Beck, Hannity just jumped on the bandwagon. nt

[dem629]

3. Mostly Beck. That guy is seriously nuts.

[Captain Hilts]

6. He came along FAR too late to be held responsible for this. He's benefitting from it. nt

[dem629]

12. I don't think he's responsible for this. None of them are, strictly speaking, "responsible" for

these acts. The question was about poisoning the political atmosphere, which is not about being responsible for criminal acts.

I just think he's the craziest one out there, feeding almost nothing but pure bullshit to his followers.

The people pulling the triggers are the ones responsible for pulling the triggers.

[phantom power]

4. To pick one, it would definitely be Rush.

He pretty much was the first to take right wing media bias and turn it into a theme for an entire show, and make it a national success.

He was the proof of concept. And still one of the single biggest players of the Right Wing Noise Machine.

[MADem]

7. Other: Anyone who transmits and doesn't have the courtesy to also receive.

You can't have discussion without listening to a wide variety of views. Anyone who simply repeats talking and position points, without giving the issue a robust going-over, is a dumbass. Unfortunately, politics has been a contact sport since Newt Gingrich dreamed up the Contract With ON America!

[mitchum]

8. ALL of the spiritual children of Saint Reagan

Fuck the revisionism, he was a goddamn smiling monster who birthed all of this

[abq e streeter]

9. Voted "all"--- but in a way its the supposedly "respected" MSM people-

who give creedence to the whack-job hate-mongers by pretending ( or worse, really believing)and treating them as if they're just "conservative pundits" etc , who may be the most dangerous and poisonous, because "rational" people believe them, whereas you really need to already be a lunatic to believe Rush, Beck,Caribou Barbie, et al.

[Demeter]

10. Ronald Reagan

Or as I like to call him, the Father of Lies.

[omega minimo]

28. +5,000,000,000

[Oregone]

11. How about, the stupid people who eat it up?

[Hekate]

13. Newt Gingrich and his Vocabulary List of Lies is the grandaddy of them all, imo.

[Captain Hilts]

14. CORRECT. Everything Dems did was 'bizarre', 'pathetic', Clinton's presidency was 'failed', etc.

Even folks here fall for some of that shit.

[Dukkha]

15. all of the above: The Axis of Morans

[earth mom]

16. Don't forget religious nuts like Falwell, Robertson, and Rick Warren.

Poisoning the hearts and minds of America is what those bible thumpers do best. :puke:

[DBoon]

17. Richard Nixon

the link between Joe McCarthy and the Karl Roves of this world

The founder of culture wars, attacking "sex drugs rock-and-roll"

Pandere to racists, who adopted George Wallace's political posturing

[laststeamtrain]

18. Everyone except "dirty hippies"; all "center-right" "culture war" idiots;

anyone with the least good thing to say about Ronald Reagan, etc, etc.

[HOLOS]

19. all

[G_j]

20. Ronald Reagan nt

[omega minimo]

29. That's it

[G_j]

32. The "L" word... nt

[LWolf]

21. Other: Ronald Reagan. nt

[Stevenmarc]

22. Lee Atwater

[rustydog]

23. The American people for allowing it

for being to damn lazy to fact-check themselves, to allow the people listed in your poll to think and speak for them and destroy the country.

We all need to look in the mirror when placing blame for the poisoned political culture. We allowed it to happen.

[lpbk2713]

24. The GOP

The Grand Obstructionist Party.

[Blue_Tires]

25. AM talk radio in general...

a lot of the no-name, small market hosts are more extreme than you can imagine...

[BlooInBloo]

26. People who put up with those who follow those in your poll.

[SmileyRose]

27. Actually, it was the Whigs.

http://hnn.us/articles/3593.html

The first presidential election in which dirty tricks were played was in 1844 ((by the Whigs ))

The first election in which a dirty trick apparently altered the outcome was in 1888. Grover Cleveland was running for re-election against Republican Benjamin Harrison, grandson of Tippecanoe.

In November Cleveland lost New York and the election (though he won more popular votes than Harrison).

The dirty trick? The Englishman who wrote Sir Lionel Sackville-West was not really an Englishman at all. His real name was George Osgoodby. And he was a California Republican. Cleveland had been undone by a Republican hoax.

[Toucano]

30. Limbaugh by a length.

A very WIDE and ROUND length.

[Raine]

31. Ronald Raygun

it all goes back to him.

[G_j]

34. and as gov of CA, also..

some deep nastiness behind that smile.
He was successful enough in associating humanitarian values (Liberal) with weakness and un-American, socialistic 'agenda's'.
It was all so stupid, and altogether macho, they went for the bottom. The sixties were so powerful in upsetting the apple cart.
Raygun, as Nixon, quite simply, hated us. Ronnie knew how to appeal the baser instincts of the populace.
I suppose that was the beginning of the sound bite also.

[cherokeeprogressive]

33. I voted OTHER. Oh wait, there was no OTHER. I blame the 24 hour news cycle brought about by

the advent of cable and satellite television and the internet.