ABC News' chief political analyst continues his "Hugs for Hitler" campaign in the belief that if you and I would just be nicey-nice enough to monster and tyrants, the monster and tyrants will dry up and blow away.
On this day in 1925, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler is published. He wrote, “It is not truth that matters, but victory.” Let us remember that it is truth that matters the most. Without truth, we live in darkness. With truth, the light shines through. And love goes with truth.
The only two groups left in this country who continue to act as if they have no fucking clue what the base of the Republican party is really like are political journalists and the leaders of the Republican party.
By the way, did I mention that Mr. Dowd was the chief architect of the 2004 slash-slander-and-gay-bash George W. Bush re-election campaign?
And did I mention that ABC News now pays Mr. Dowd to be their chief political analyst?
As we have noted on this little blog many, many times, at the slightest provocation the easily-startled, over-caffeinated badger that lives on top of Ran Paul's head will run away from any democratic principle dragging the junior senator from the great state pf Kentucky right along behind it.
Rand Paul to travel to Russia after downplaying election meddling
And this:
"If there wasn't such acute hatred for President Trump, such a 'Trump derangement syndrome' on the left...," a meeting with a Russian leader could have happened sooner says Sen. @randpaul. The blow back from the meeting, "really shows people hatred for President Trump." pic.twitter.com/ejfBwqYduz
The president tries to pull a “both sides” on the Putin v US intel and ends up essentially confessing to the world that he believes Putin more the the United States of America and its agencies.
Mr. Todd has been one of the most appallingly reliable Both Siderist pimps anywhere in the American media ecosystem. His capacity to choke down normal, human gag-reflexes and (for example) give monsters like Hugh Hewitt a national media platform is the #1 reason Comcast hired him.
CHUCK TODD: ...and my pal, radio talk show host, Hugh Hewitt, who, of course, has been the must-do for every presidential contender...
And given the wildly outsized influence Meet the Press has over setting the parameters of our national political discourse, a credible case can be made that no one has done more to enable the catastrophe which now engulfs us than ol' Shuck Todd.
So fuck right off Mr. Todd. Just fuck right the fuck off.
First, a little refreshing music to take the taste of the ashes of democracy out of your mouth.
Then, on to business.
Specifically, a reminder that there is no Republican atrocity so blunt, clear and horrifying that Mr. David Brooks will not try to disperse blame for it equally to both sides of the political spectrum.
Over the weekend, Trump ripped the partnership to threads. He said the European Union is our “foe.” On Monday, Trump essentially sided with Vladimir Putin, who has become the biggest moral and political enemy of the Euro-American relationship. Trump essentially dropped a project that has oriented American culture and policy for centuries. He pointed us to a world in which the central ethos is that might makes right.
But...
But remember, Donald Trump exists only to put a capstone on every poisonous trend that preceded him. It took many hands to kill the Euro-American bond.
Because, y'know, Both Sides:
Right-wing politicians and commentators began to use Europe as a stand-in for American liberals. It’s a bunch of godless socialists, just like those heretics in Berkeley and Cambridge. Euro-bashing became a unifying conservative trope. Progressives fell into the poisonous trap of racialism. They looked at the glories of Aristotle, Shakespeare and Mozart, and the most interesting thing they had to say about them was that they were dead white males...
I'm not 100% sure what Bill Shakespeare would say about Mr. David Brooks of The New York Times, but I bet it would sound a helluva lot like this:
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!.
An evil soul producing holy witness.
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,.
A goodly apple rotten at the heart. .
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -- The Merchant of Venice: Act 1, Scene 3
The president tries to pull a “both sides” on the Putin v US intel and ends up essentially confessing to the world that he believes Putin more the the United States of America and its agencies.
You will have to forgive me if I chuckle a little when Nicolle Wallace asks Michael Chertoff if he can remember a president so blatantly ignoring the advice of his own Intelligence agencies. #WMD
Having spent the back nine of his career getting rich helping to build the Republican monster machine, Brit Hume (a one-time Serious Journalist whose career died in state of mortal sin and who must now spend eternity using Roger Ailes jockstrap as a hammock over at Fox News) would very much like you to forget all that and instead notice how earnestly he pretends to care that one of his monsters is running amok.
Because Trump is unable to see past himself, he sees the Russia meddling investigation as only about him and the collusion claim, and thus calls it a witch hunt. But the investigations are much more about what Russia did, as the House and Senate reports long since established.
It concerns me greatly that millions of Americans cannot get solid information from the press. Instead, they are routinely insulted and deceived by ideology masquerading as news.
