Sunday Morning Comin’ Down…Part I

“...Though the night was made for loving,
And the days return too soon,
Yet we'll go no more a roving
By the light of the moon.”

-- Lord Byron.

Well, apparently the ringmasters of the Sunday Mouse Circus don’t read a lot of Byron, because, bless ‘em, they all went merrily a-Roving, all morning long, so here is an impressionistic, abstract, deconstructed, everted and non-linear gloss on what the I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Journalism boys and girls were up

On Fox: Brit Hume, still pushing spoiled, reeking meat like fresh Kobe beef: the lie that Niger uranium evidence was “inconclusive” and that the real story here is Bad Man Joe Wilson and how he was out-of-line publishing inflammatory op-eds. Well...only one.

Can’t bear to watch Hume today. I still remember a time when lying fucktards who overtly goon-squad for criminals for a living would not have been allowed near a nationally syndicated show. When, if anything, they were relegated to 1:00 A.M. slots on local television UHF stations with snowy reception. That Hume is not living in a box under a bridge, eating rats, drinking sterno and his own urine, and shrieking his lunacy at strangers who stray too near his refrigerator crate says all that needs to be said about the complete moral and philosophical degeneracy of the Right.

So off to Face the Nation to see Joe Wilson paired up with Evil Majority Whip Roy Blunt.

Roy Blunt saying that maybe the CIA got a little crazy with the whole “Top Secret” thing.

Bob Schieffer sez, “Are you saying that the CIA is taking this too seriously?”

Blunt: No, I’m not saying that.

Driftglass: Fuck you. Do you simply not understand the words that are coming out of your own mouth? That’s exactly what you’re saying. That the CIA has gone a little koo-koo-for-Cocoa-Puffs with the Top Secret stamp, and that Plame had no business being called a secret agent.

Stunning. A douchebag like Blunt – mouthpiece for an Administration that stamps “Eyes Only” all over every one of Condi Rice’s used minipads and the empty bottles of baby’s blood that Cheney knocks back like V8 shooters – actually saying that this is all just a D.C. flap and that the wacky CIA is just too secret-happy.

Blunt sez that this is important to Joe Wilson only because he's taking it personally, but it's really not a Big Deal. That this has all gone on waaaay to long.

Sweet move, pissing off the CIA and shitting yourself on national teevee all in a few, simple, unbelievably asinine sentences.

I love the smell of animal desperation on Sunday Mornings!

Oh, and in case you were wondering, Blunt also wants us all to know that the White House’s credibility has not been hurt even one eansy-beansy bit.

God love Bob Schieffer. He’s just bearing down like a sonofabitch. Really? Seriously? I want to be sure I understood (the naked outrageous lies imbedded in) what you just said?

Blunt: People focusing on this and Rove and alla that stuff about Rove having his clearance lifted, “does a disservice to the nation.”

And someone, somewhere said the Dems own Karl Rove an apology.

Oh never mind; that’s Kenny Mehlman on a different channel, and I’ll swing around on those monkey-bars in a few paragraphs. But for now...

All Wilson has to do is sit there and, in a calm, even voice, read the facts and time timeline.

That’s it. Just recite the facts and no reasonable person could possibly conclude that Rove is or ever has been anything but the distilled venom drained from Spiro Agnew’s colostomy bag and Lee Atwater’s bedpan...but Republicans are fearful little slaves and ALL of them are Rove’s bitches, so there they are, squirming all over each other like so many drunk puppies desperate to divert attention from the fact that Mordor is on fire.

I wonder what they tell themselves in the privacy of their own thoughts? When they are on their knees before their God, what can the possibly pray that wouldn’t shame them in the eyes of their Redeemer?

As I’ve said before, Bush could be videotaped throwing burning kittens at homeless veterans on the White House lawn...and programmable Republibots like Blunt will waddle from one microphone to another until his batteries wind down calling it “strong leadership in troubled times.”

If they still have anything resembling a conscience, how do they keep from eating a bullet?

Schieffer nailed it very well during his 90-second coda, which I will interpret a little more free-associatedly than mere transcription would allow. That if the White House had been remotely interested in finding out who was leaking classified info to the press for the purpose of destroying someone who had committed the Mortal Sin of disagreeing with Dear Leader, Bush could have pulled his staff into the Oval Office and told them he fucking well wanted to know by EOB that day.

Two years and millions of dollars later, turns out it was Rove. Of course it was Rove. But as Schieffer points out, this gets bigger than that because it shows that the White House isn’t even remotely interested in the casually criminal and treasonous behavior of the Friends of George. That the Administration just automatically drops into “deny everything, nuke everyone and shoot the wounded” posture regardless of the actual facts of the case.

There is no way to square what Rove did – technically felonious or not – with what Bush said he was going to do to “anyone involved.” Period. End of Story.

But like all destructive, blackout alcoholics who wake up in the rubble of the apartment they themselves drunkenly smashed to flinders the night before and demand to know who did it, Bush ain’t ever been about “facing facts.” And his loyal family retainers are all about enabling and denial; all about making sure the bodies are buried and the blood is sopped up from the Oval Office carpets before Massa George rises from his sodden bed.

And since the feeble-minded, dry-drunk little creep in the charge is such moral jellyfish that he would apparently prefer cutting his own children’s fingers off with dull tin-snips rather than admit that he might have made a mistake...the White House Army of Darkness is stuck doing exactly what got them into this clusterfuck in the first place.

This one AND the Social Security Clusterfuck AND the Global Warming Clusterfuck AND the Iraqi MetaUberPandimensional Clusterfuck: To wit, lobbing dangerously irresponsible lies and libels around as freely as Mardi Gras beads, stonewalling, and sending their myrmidon creatures fluttering all over town, trying hysterically to kick up enough dust to cloud the fact that the man who does the President’s thinking, mugging and molesting for him is a thug and a traitor.

This being the case, Schieffer asks, how can anyone take anything that this White House ever says at fact value again?

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