If a Challenge, Name the Time and Place

If a grudge, name your reason.

I'd wager a bottle of Oban that last night, at some cubicle deep inside the GOP Fortress of Platitude, some luckless staffer was emptying his or her desk, because some powerless person, somewhere, has to pay the price for letting Eliot Ness bring cameras into the GOP crack house.

Because Friday, President Obama made history by violating the Prime Directive of moderns American political life: He told the truth. He calmly unsheathed three feet of Verdad, walked into the ideological heart of the Republican Party and took them apart, one vital organ at a time.

A fair viewing of the 82-minute tour de force admits no other interpretation.

So what can we be 100% sure of?

Three things.

First, Fox and Hate Radio will completely shuck the event its context, cut it up and pasted back together like a ransom note to suit whatever spin a blood-drunk thug like Karl Rove chooses to inflict on it. By next week, based on mixing a few, cherry-picked sentence fragments in a 1-to-100 ratio with the usual, wingnut canonical claptrap, the new-new narrative (Obama was Angry. Obama was defensive. Obama agrees that Republicans are awesome and all of America's problems are the fault of Nancy Pelosi/George Soros and the Liberal media's fault) will have been fully dispersed, and the Pig People -- without ever troubling themselves to see what really happened -- will be dutifully and angrily regurgitating the new-new lies, and blitzing everyone in their address book with angry, half-bright emails festooned with eagles, flags, Jesus and VERY BIG FONT.

Second, the Pig People will be required to double up on their dosage of Outrage Viagra to keep its faux outrage steely-hard and pointed at the Kenyan Usurper for unfairly dragging Facts and History right into the parlor of their little hokum whorehouse...while at the same time they stayed extra, extra furious that anyone would assume that, upon reading that card-carrying members of the Wingnut Junior Ratfuck squad who were caught breaking into the offices of a Democratic Senator while impersonating telephone repairmen (from Media Matters):

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The New York Times reports that "the four men, two of whom were dressed as telephone repairmen, were charged with entering a federal property on false pretenses with the purpose of committing a felony. The crime charged is itself a felony that carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison."

As Media Matters' Eric Hananoki noted, O'Keefe's three alleged accomplices -- Joseph Basel, Robert Flanagan, and Stan Dai -- are right-wing activists as well. Basel was the founder of a conservative campus publication at the University of Minnesota-Morris, which, like the campus publication started by O'Keefe at Rutgers University, received funding from the conservative Leadership Institute's "Balance in Media" grant. Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana William Flanagan, reportedly works at the conservative Pelican Institute in New Orleans, just half a block from Landrieu's office. Dai received $5,000 from the right-wing Phillips Foundation's Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program. Additionally, during his time as a campus conservative, Dai reportedly co-wrote "a satirical work entitled The Penis Monologues, apparently a takeoff on the Vagina Monologues."
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might somehow reach the conclusion that they were breaking into the offices of a Democratic Senator to tamper with the phones.

And third, the Right's marketing factory will be adding a third shift to hurry up and retrofit Jimmy "Wingnut Welfare Pimp" O'Keefe

with a new suit, new haircut, new past and new role as oppressed minority


and prisoner of conscience.


History will write that greatest failure of the Right was not merely that they were bone-in stupid. Or that they were malicious. Or bigots. Or fools.

No, future generations will note that what rocketed the Right to truly Olympian levels of FAIL was that they were men and women utterly without honor.

Right down to their skidmarked souls.

This is what makes them a tragedy.