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Guys and Guns Amok

ALSO BY DOUGLAS KELLNER

Herbert Marcuse: Art and Liberation, edited (2007)

Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy: Terrorism, War, and Election Battles (2005)

Herbert Marcuse and the New Left, edited (2004)

Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader, coedited with Sean Homer (2004)

From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy (2003)

Media Spectacle (2003)

Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election (2001)

The Postmodern Adventure, coauthored with Steven Best (2001)

Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works, coedited with Gigi Durham (2001)

Herbert Marcuse: Toward a Critical Theory of Society, edited (2001)

Film, Art, and Politics: An Emile de Antonio Reader, coedited with Dan Streible (2000)

Herbert Marcuse: Technology, War, and Fascism, edited (1998)

The Postmodern Turn, coauthored with Steven Best (1997)

Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies, coedited with Ann Cvetkovich (1996)

Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics between the Modern and the Postmodern (1995)

The Persian Gulf TV War (1992)

Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations, coauthored with Steven Best (1991)

Television and the Crisis of Democracy (1990)

Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity (1989)

Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond (1989)

Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, coauthored with Michael Ryan (1988)

Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism (1984)

Guys and Guns Amok

Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre

Douglas Kellner

First published 2008 by Paradigm Publishers

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Kellner, Douglas, 1943

Guys and guns amok : domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Virginia Tech massacre / Douglas Kellner.

p. cm. (The radical imagination series)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-315-63425-8 (Ebook)

1. ViolenceUnited States. 2. Youth and violence. 3. Violence in menUnited States. 4. School shootingsUnited States. 5. Domestic terrorismUnited States. 6. Gun controlUnited States. I. Title.

HN90.V5K45 2008

305.3896920973dc22

2007045369

Designed and Typeset by Straight Creek Bookmakers.

ISBN 13: 978-1-59451-492-0 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978-1-59451-493-7 (pbk)

Contents

I want to thank Paradigm Publishers, especially Jennifer Knerr, for encouraging me to pursue the project, for providing a wealth of useful suggestions for revision, and for working to get it through an accelerated production schedule. Melanie Stafford and Dianne Ewing once again helped me get through the rigors of the copyediting and production process. I also want to thank series editors Henry Giroux and Stanley Aronowitz for supporting the project and Henry for providing help with the research. In addition, for useful comments on earlier drafts and ideas and research material, I would like to thank Christine Kelly, Heather Collette-VanDeraa, Richard Kahn, Rhonda Hammer, Ben Frymer, and Jackson Katz, who helped me navigate literature on violence and masculinity. Finally, I would especially like to thank my longtime friend Carl Boggs for making many useful comments on the final draft, discussing the project in detail, and having done much important work upon which I drew in writing the book.

Douglas Kellner
Los Angeles

T HE MAINSTREAM CORPORATE MEDIA today process events, news, and information in the form of media spectacle. In an arena of intense competition with 24/7 cable TV networks, talk radio, Internet sites and blogs, and emergent digital media and cultural forms such as Facebook, MySpace, and YouTube, the corporate media are driven to construct tabloid spectacles in an attempt to attract maximum audiences for as much time as possible.

The 1990s saw the emergence and proliferation of cable news networks, talk radio, and the Internet. Major media spectacles of the era included the O. J. Simpson murder trial, the Clinton sex scandals and threatened impeachment, and the life and death of Princess Diana. The era also saw an intensification of celebrity news and scandals (see Kellner 2003a), which continue and intensify to the present day with Britney Spears, Tom Cruise, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and other hot celebrities under 24-hour surveillance for scandals or tabloid entertainment stories.

The new millennium opened with the contested presidential election between Al Gore and George W. Bush and a 36-day battle for the White House that culminated in a five-to-four Supreme Court decision for Bush that blocked the counting of votes in Florida and generated one of the most momentous political crimes in history, events that I describe in my book Grand Theft 2000 (Kellner 2001). This spectacle was soon followed by the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, the deadliest attack on U.S. soil in its history, and perhaps the most extensive global media spectacle ever, inaugurating an era of Terror War (Kellner 2003b).

Following the model of his fathers 1991 war with Iraq, the second Bushs Iraq war was also orchestrated as a media spectacle, although after declaring victory in May 2003, events flipped out of control and the spectacle in Iraq has often been a negative and highly contested one, leading to a collapse of Bushs approval ratings and the unraveling of his administration (Kellner 2005).

The Bush-Cheney years have been a series of spectacles from 9/11 and Iraq to the abject failure of the Bush administration during Hurricane Katrina. Scandals involving criminal trials of high officials like Dick Cheneys chief of staff, I. Lewis Scooter Libby, major Republican congressmembers now in jail like Randy Duke Cunningham and Bob Ney, felony charges against Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay that forced him to leave politics, and financial scandals involving lobbyist and Republican fund-raiser Jack Abramoff, as well as sex scandals ranging from Mark Foleys shameful episode with White House pages to Larry Craigs bust for soliciting sex in an airport mens room. Another major scandal erupted in Spring 2007 that engulfed attorney general and Bush loyalist Alberto Gonzales. The spectacle of Gonzogate involved one of the most systematically political attempts to establish partisan control of the justice system in U.S. history, whereby numerous undeniably competent U.S. attorneys, the highest tier of the nations federal prosecutors, were fired for failing to carry out politically motivated prosecutions of Democrats, while prosecutors who complied with the administrations blatantly political schemes retained their posts.

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