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):
...might somehow reach the conclusion that they were breaking into the offices of a Democratic Senator to tamper with the phones.
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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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.
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At what point can the vessel no longer contain the swelling lies?
A stained mattress has more memory of honor than such specimens.
;>)
That would be the "Best Little Hokum Whorehouse in Texas (or any other reddened region)" I'd wager! Another in the endless series of well-crafted keepers, DG
You know, Drifty, you're a hard guy to comment on, because you so rarely leave useful things unsaid.
Dismissal?
I suspect that, in true Screwtape fashion, the more appropriate term is digestion.
May I add a fourth (thing that will happen)?
The New York Times will declare all of this great news for Republicans.
I will happily accept that wager with the full intention of losing so that I could send you a well earned bottle of scotch. I'd love to hear what you REALLY think after imbibing a few drams. As usual, best work yet!
Outrage Viagra
Bwahahahahahaha!
Thanks Drifty for making my day!
And to add to res ispa loquitur's point a sixth.... that the rest of the "lame-dia" will dutifully pick up the meme and spew it far and wide.
SP
Thanks thanks thanks for doing what you do.You make survival worth it.Any day now when I do find a job - I will hit the tip jar.Luv ya!
I'm betting little Reagan Pimp smartass is rethinking his Rethug enthusiasm for harsh law and order enforcement about now. "It's not supposed to apply to people like ME!"
I really can't deem this pathetic attempt at jail time a tragedy.
Tragic for the country, of course, in the sense that the Watergate burglars were never truly exposed for their intentions (or achievements (news of which never was reported)) which left the field open to the next group of powerful miscreants to be misidentified as jokers or let off as just another "3rd-rate," unimportant burglary of no consequence to anyone (since they were discovered).
And certainly a lot less consequence than the news that a Democratic Presidential candidate of many years ago had had an affair(!) with a staffer (much more newsworthy than the vulgar, sex-obsessed stories about the Rethuglican candidate of the election just passed).
Brilliance abounding from the Chicago Castle (as usual).
Thanks for not letting this one slip by.
S
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That's a wrap. One take, too, again.
Brilliant.
The Republicans forgot that the President is a human being now, instead of a cardboard cutout. They are like a vicious dog that just had its nose slapped. They will not make the same mistake again. Actually what's really going on is, they slipped, and not the way you think. You would never have seen this happen in the good old Cheney days. In them days, anyone who disagreed with them was handcuffed and carted off to jail. But you cannot handcuff the President. What a minute. Maybe....
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