Andrew Sullivan writes:
The raw partisanship and threats confirm to me that [The Pwning Of Scott Walker] is a classic piece of partisan warfare under the guise of fiscal conservatism. It also confirms every left-wing conspiracy theorist on the power of the Koch brothers. "Bring a baseball bat?"
OK, but "confirms"...to whom?
Watching the Wisconsin Uprising unfold, no one on the Left who has observed the Right over the last 30 years building (often with your enthusiastic assistance) its vast, reprogrammable, killbot Base has needed any confirmation about anything.
And given the billions the Right has spent on cultivating that Base and constantly upgrading its propaganda machine, I have no doubt whatsoever that were Scott Walker to rub shit in his hair, set it on fire and run through the state capitol -- naked and accompanied by bazouki music -- yelling "David Koch cock tastes like Norweigan Jarlsburg!", within 2-3 months (and probably much sooner) the Golem Right would have completely forgotten it ever happened, and would retain only a vague, Fox-flavored aftertaste that Scott Walker is one tough, anti-Socialism sumbitch, and the protesters were all lazy moochers, welfare cheats and outside agitators.
So "confirms"...to whom?
The Right has long stopped being anything but a triumph of marketing fascist and fundamentalist heroin to stone Conservative addicts: sometimes the baggie gets stamped with a crude line-drawing of Reagan's face, sometimes Jesus, and sometimes a flag. For eight years the Kochs and their fellow oligarchs and Christopaths sold their poison with George Bush's smirking grin on the bag. Then, after too many people started puking up blood from their product, they switched packaging and began selling the same filth to the same junkies in red-white-and-blue tea bags.
In one, important way, what is happening in Wisconsin is culturally and politically notable for the same reason that a college student asking Newt Gingrich about his long history of lies and adultery -- a blindingly obvious question that establishmentarian testicle cozies like David Gregory have consistently refused to ask during any of their dozens of opportunity to do so -- has caused a momentary stir. It's not that it exposes some wild new facet of the depravity of the Right that everyone on the Left doesn't already know about. Rather, it exposes yet again the utter cowardice and complicity of the Koch and Gingrich-sized omissions in the mainstream press. Like Sherlock Holmes' dog that didn't bark in the night, it shows us all once again how deeply committed the Big Money Media is to collectively embargoing any serious reporting on the grotesque reality of what the Right has devolved into.
Not, of course, that we didn't all know that already :-)
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Well, given what a turd Walker is, it's always good to get in a lick at him, but let's not forget these stirring words by candidate Obama, as he campaigned in Spartanburg, S.C., in November of 2007:
"And understand this: if American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I'll walk that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner."
And there you have it. Courageous, labor-conscious, words from the first black preznint of the U.S...or, to put it another way:
"Money talks and bullshit walks..."
(more than Obama walks, it appears.)
You can see the clip of him saying it, over at FDL. It aint pretty...anymore.
Walk-off grand slam.
Confirmed!
And I'm feeling pretty religious about that.
Incredibly convincing argument, DG. Should be on the editorial page of the NY Times. Kudos!
Amen, TB!
S
sometimes the baggie gets stamped with a crude line-drawing of Reagan's face, sometimes Jesus, and sometimes a flag.
:), Blueglass
The testicle cozy landed Governor TurdHaironFire for Press the Meat this Sunday. You don't get "gets" like that if you don't outfox Faux News! And you don't rise to host without some dedicated kneeling.
I'd warn against viewing in HD. Those indelible jism spots tend to really stand out in 1080p.
Talk about your mustsuckseed TV.
This is Sullivan's schtick -- the hanky-waving "I've just discovered Republicans aren't the nice, polite gentlemen I always thought they were!" swoon, then next week he's reset back to his default position only to clutch his pearls at the next 'unexpected' Republican affront to his virtue, a slight variation on the several hundred that came before.
Somehow he never remembers or learns a damn thing, and his umbrage never rises to the level of actually repudiating the political sewer-dwellers to whom he has a fixated loyalty they would never extend to him.
And by now, given his repeated caving to those republicans, we should have figured out that Barack Obama is waaay too polite and hanky-waving, when dealing with the assholes.
The question is, what are we going to do about it?
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