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Entry: Reductio ad Hitlerum Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/reductio_ad_hitlerum#26430 Post contents: “We’re talking to a blank slate here.” Chris Mathew’s dogged textual question, “what did Chamberlain do in 1938?” in the context of television is obscene in the precise sense of the term, that is “offstage” and out of view. I’m sure many viewers were as outraged as O’Reilly was when he interviewed Ron Paul: “Ok, Doctor Paul, we don’t need a history lesson.” The late George Trow explained TV in 1981 in “Within the Context of No Context”: “The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.” TV now looks like a visual representation of a cokehead’s brain with all the banners, glitz, and screaming. I haven’t watched it in twenty years and I am more concerned with its overflow of acoustic imbecility into the textual rational reserves of The Remnant. You know, like “Hitler’s plan for world domination,” “extremist militant Islamoviral jihad,” 9/11. Sent at: 2008 12 02