Sunday Morning Comin' Down

"Take-a-Gorgon-to-Work Day" edition.

If your idea of biting-into-aluminum thrill-seeking is peeping through the curtains of a post-apocalyptic abattoir-cum-knocking shop after closing time to see what sorts of slithery, unnatural things clamber up from the basement in the gloaming hours, then the Mouse Circus was the place for you Sunday for one reason:  Ann Coulter.

Ms. Coulter makes her way in the world by plying her one, very specific skill: scuttling from one microphone to the next, wrapping herself around it like a hagged-out "Alien" face-hugger, ramming her screechy, Conservative ovipositor into her audience's ears and laying her loathsome eggs in their skulls.

And most of the time, there she remains...skittering around and around the wingnut welfare circuit over and over again from Hate Radio to Fox teevee, with an annual stop at Regnery press feeding trough to extrude books like "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America", "Godless: The Church of Liberalism", "Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism" and so forth...day after day offering the same gnarly, bile-soaked handjobs to the same imbeciles in the back alleys on the wrong side of town...

...until the day comes -- as it inevitably does -- when the big, air-conditioned, network teevee limo sighs to a stop next to her, pops the door open and offers her another chance to take her freakshow uptown.

Usually such Sunday morning outreaches to the mutant hellbeast community are done by David Gregory, but  at least once a year, George Stephanopolous steps up to pay down the vig on whatever unholy debt the mutant hellbeast community is holding over his head.

And thus it was that during the summer of 2009,  Stephanopolous unleashed Michele Malkin on an unsuspecting nation:

The Discredited Conservative Rehabilitation Tour continues… 

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While on “This Wee Little George Stephanopolous”, catastrophically Failed Neocon Mentat Alan Greenspan

repeats the Capitalist Mantra

It is by Rand alone I set my mind in motion.
It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains.
The stains become a warning.
It is by Rand alone I set my mind in motion.

over and over again.

But the only item of any larger cultural interest yesterday was the Shark Jumping Moment when ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopolous held up Michele Malkin’s latest, odious book, gave it one contractually-obligated mention between lightly-gritted teeth, and then lent her credibility the full faith and credit of ABC News as he introduced her as a member-in-good-standing of his Sunday morning panel.

Malkin, for those of you who are unfamiliar with her oeuvre, is the perky, snarling brownshirt with the glossy tresses and bantamweight intellect after whom ex-pat Conservative Andrew Sullivan named "The Malkin Award" for "shrill, hyperbolic, divisive and intemperate right-wing rhetoric."

Whose entire “literary” career has consisted of collecting large, wingnut welfare checks from infamous Conservative whorehouse Regnery Press in exchange for cranking out one "Liberals Are Scum" cut-and-paste honey-bucket every 18 months or so:

Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores (Regnery 2002)

In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror (Regnery 2004)

Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild (Regnery 2005)

So this wasn’t a case of some feral child dropping uninvited through the skylight onto the grownup's table. This was a multiple-car-wreck-grade violation of any pretext of “journalism” that screamed, “Wrong!”
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And now that "This Week..."'s Christiane Amanpour interregnum is over and the show's brief flirtation with respectability is at an end, this week  George  Stephanopolous dispatched the Mouse Circus limo to haul Ann Coulter into the bright, redemptive light of Big Network Legitimization where she was joined by fellow Fox News employee Mike Huckabee, Van Jones, and MSNBC's resident, cement-mixer-voiced pianola player, Ed "Call me 'Ed'" Rendell  at Mr. Stephanopolous' pundits-from-other-networks sleepaway camp.  

And you know, for all the giggling and Beltway singalonging and lauding of the "moderate Democrat" accomplishments of a guy named "Bill Clinton"  you might never have guessed that Ann Coulter's long and successful career as a shrieking Conservative Gorgon and character assassin began in the vanguard of the wingnut goon squad dedicated to crippling and overthrowing the Clinton Administration by any means necessary.

Since then, of course, Ms. Coulter has enjoyed a long and lucrative career belching fire on command for Roger Ailes and cadging free drinks from drunken rednecks at CPAC who want to brag to everybody back in Sisterfuck Arkansas that they met a real, live c'lebridy with pudry blond hair!  But because George Stephanopolous and every one of his guests are far too Beltway-polite to whisper a single word regarding Ms. Coulter's long, grotesque and well-documented history --

Example: 

Coulter gave the interview to George Gurley, a columnist for the New York Observer, who has interviewed Coulter in the past. During an August 2002 interview, Coulter told Gurley: "My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."

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Example: 

[Gurley] What should we remember about Bill Clinton?

[Coulter] "Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten."

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Example: 

...as Media Matters for America has noted. Coulter wrote in her 1998 book, High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton:

In this recurring nightmare of a presidency, we have a national debate about whether he "did it," even though all sentient people know he did. Otherwise there would be debates only about whether to impeach or assassinate.

-- if all you knew about Ann Coulter was what you gleaned from her guest appearance on "This Week..." you would never guess that she started her red-of-fang-and-claw life as a professional hater with the blood she drew trying to destroy the President of the United States.

And you would also never guess that the President she work so desperately hard to slander, ruin and overthrow was George Stephanopolous' boss.

Because they get paid either way, kids.

Because it's all a fucking game.