Sunday Morning Comin’ Down

Sigh.

Why is our media the way it is?

Because even after six years of rule by the Lords of Disaster, Mendacity and Treason, we have a substantial number of the electorate who are so deeply sunk into denial, bigotry and outright madness

This

can be


transmuted into

this...

By methods

no more




subtle


than

that.

Thus continuing to protect the interests of those making billions profiting from the use of our public airwaves by, among other things, passing off caramel-dipped dung as serious political discourse.

The Mouse Circus, as it was...

On “Face the Nation”

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona

Does anyone care what John McCain has to say about anything anymore?


On “Meet the Press”

Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint talk about race, class, culture and society.

Interesting, but sadly could have been having the same conversations (and were) five years ago. 10. 15. 20.

Shorter: Examples matter. Role models matter. And wherever you stand on the 1st Amendment (and I assume you’re standing between it and the slavering Orcs who want to gaff it, gut to, and doll it’s corpse up with a crown of thorns and a cross of gold (h/t William Jenning Bryan)) you cannot be a blogger and not believe that words matter.

That words move the world.

Because it is unarguably the case that words –
repeating 9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11/9/11 and
SaddamHusseinOsamaBinLaden
SaddamHusseinOsamaBinLaden
SaddamHusseinOsamaBinLaden
SaddamHusseinOsamaBinLaden
SaddamHusseinOsamaBinLaden -- a million times stampeded millions of grownups in this country to back a cabal of liars, lunatics and looters to drive us deep into darkness and disaster, and then slit the nation’s tires to strand us there.

Propaganda backstopped by serious money works, whether it is being used to convince a nation to leap into the abyss, or a young girl that staying ignorant is the royal road to acceptance, and degradation is the path to love.


On “Fox News Sunday”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. and House Minority Leader Rep. Long John Boehner.

The Boner: Our sabotage of the SCHIP legislation is not about the money.

Yeah, we just hate po’ kids. It’s principled villainy, bitches!

Boner: We want innovation in Health Care. And this will somehow fuck that up.

WTF?

I believe you’re confusing basic health care with developing the next generation of designer antidepressants and Penis Rigidifying Technologies.

No, see, we don’t want “innovation” -- we don’t wanted tinkering and experimenting -- in the delivery of basic health care to poor kids until you get the fucking ABC’s down cold.

Are you insane?

We want doctors to take care of the basic health care needs of poor children.

Period.

Do that for five years, come back and explain how it can be done better/faster/cheaper, and then we’ll talk.

Until then, Shut The Fuck Up and make sure poor kids have doctors, food, and flu shots.

Boner: People don’t want Gummit Run Health Care.

Boner: This bill was designed not to pass. It was designed to play political games. Murricans hate political games (Insert every column-inch and every minute of faux outrage speechifying in Congress, on teevee and on radio resulting from the MoveOn.Org ad here. You’re gonna need a bigger boat…)

Boner: Remember how we were called monsters when we did Welfare reform? It’s just like that!

What the hell are you talking about?

First, seriously, Republicans should not try firing old, touchy, 1990s .44 caliber talking points out of a room temperature IQ blunderbuss like The Boner.

It cannot

end well.

Second, any success with welfare reform (and there was some) actually resulted from spending much more money than would have been spent otherwise. Because to succeed in getting welfare recipients into the work force, turns out you need to wrap all kindsa support services around them to help them train for, find and keep work.

It’s called investing in the future.

So kicking kids off of health care will…make them…go out and get better jobs?

What?

Boner: Oh, and the ACLU Sucks!

Boner (On giant Telcom companies who ratted out American citizens to the Bush regime): I’m not sure we need to get into all the paperwork and such from pre-9/11…

(Note: When a thief tells you that your wallet is safe and you don’t need to concer yourself about your wallet, clamp both hands over it and sleep with one eye open.)

Boner: This whole push trying to keep us from granting blanket immunity to Telcom Titans who spied in US Citizens is all coming from Trial Lawyers who just want a big payday.

Boner: Republicans need to get back to being Republicans. Over the last 3 or 4 years we lost our way…

Slap a zero after those numbers – making it “30 or 40” – and the Boner and I would be in perfect agreement.



Hoyer: We don’t need to make a compromise because our bill is already a compromise. This bill does nothing more than deliver on the promise Bush himself made in his 2004 campaign.





On “This Week”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Senator Mitch McConnell.

He said.

She said.

Because that's journalism, baby!

On ”The Chris Matthews Show”

With quotes like this – “When does Hillary go from being flawless…to being “slick – Matthews continues with episode 138 of his massive performance art piece “My Slow-Motion Auto-Political Asphyxiation Using Hillary’s Panties”



That is as it was.

This is as it should have been…


Yes, there was a time when funny, sharp, wild people were put on the air to talk about politics, religion, policy, science or just riff about Bill Shakes on a game show

And millions of ordinary citizens watched them, smiled, appreciated the offering and were

embiggened by it.