Today, hella corrupt leaders (like Hamrod Karzaevich picture above) were put on teevee so they could LOUDLY proclaimed their innocence.
Failed Republican hack Dick Armey continued his second political life skinning a new crop of angry white rubes. and pimping a book.
By proxy, Newt Gingrich once again proved his career will never be over, because being the Imperial Wizard of the Neo-Confederate Southern White Christopath Party is a job-for-life.
David Gregory asked a Republican deficit-fetishist leader for the 100,000th time in three weeks how exactly they plan to deal with deficits if they keep cutting taxes.
David Gregory was told by a Republican deficit-fetishist leader for the 100,000th time in three weeks that they don't need answer that question because their base is far, far too blitheringly stupid to know or care about arithmetic.
George Will continued his lifelong chorus of, "Hoover, Hoover, he’s our man! If he can’t do it, Coolidge can!"
And overarching it all, Islam was beaten like a pinata by demagogues, while "responsible" Republicans and Centrists agreed that the real issue isn't demagogues beating Islam like a pinata...or mob incitement...or the US Constitution...but, uh, maybe, like, if some fictional Japanese persons, um, trying to build something something near Pearl Harbor?
Or something?
Of course, since the Ground Zero Mega Mosque is neither at Ground Zero, nor "mega" nor a mosque, from the beginning this issue had shit-all to do with Reality and everything to do with manipulating the fear, racism and xenophobia of certain American voters for partisan purposes by the invocation of symbols.
Which is also where the whole argument collapses.
Because at the analogical level, the Usual Right Wing Suspects are stuck with analogies that suck so bad -- are so laughably inappropriate, so tortured and take so long to explain -- that they start to make their promulgators look like the bigoted little cowards they really are long before their idiotic arguments are halfway out of their mouths.
Hmmm.
If only there were a much better symbol to expropriate.
A symbol which is hideously offensive to all decent Americans.
A symbol which is both close-at-hand and instantly recognizable around the world as a banner of hate under which thousands of innocent American men, women and children have been maimed and murdered on American soil by terrorists.
A symbol which has been deliberately adopted and exploited by generations of traitors and thugs. Something inextricably linked to the and dreams of triumph and theocracy of a cabal of losers. Something tangible and representational that the despicable heirs and apologists of those terrorists continue to shove in the faces of decent Americans despite its unambiguously loathsome history.
Good thing these Conservative demagogues don't have a grotesquely vile symbol like that to hijack
or they might really be able to make some headway.
BTW, inspired by one of Dirty Fucking Hippiedom's Most Glorious Leaders, untold thousands of us will be peaceably assembling arund the nation on 9/12/10
to give the Secessions Swastika the respect it deserves.
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The nonsense doesn't end.
Just finished a bio of Jack London, an avowed "socialist" who, near the end of his life, came to the understanding that the only thing that could change the exploitation of the masses was a revolution that he ultimately concluded could never come.
In his day, as in ours, jingoistic patriotism could not be surmounted by reason or empiricism.
In the proletariats beliefs lie the seeds of their own destruction.
I can't wait to burn that flag!
lolz
Great Piece !!
Couldn't agree more that we're seeing the rebirth of the KKK with all it's attendant SMUG IGNORANCE.
Slowly and inexorably, after spending all that time screaming about the iceberg, I am beginning to think that that the blue deck chair would look much better over there.....
Dick Armey: A man named with such irony the act itself must confirm the existence of time travel.
In the spirit of confederate flag burning, isn't it time we started treating these propagandists and their machine (faux news) as what they really are? The biggest threat to the the future of this country that exists today. Week after week they manufacture phony fear issues and turn up the volume to 11+, I think they deserve the same level of noise. Did you see the estimate from the Southern Poverty Law center of how many so called "Sovereign Citizens" now live in this country? 300,000?!! I can remember not long ago when the Klan itself supposedly only numbered less than 5k. We are about to witness some kind of tipping point on the wackadoo ratio the likes of which have never been seen before..
I saw the MOST offensive bumper sticker the other day: a confederate battle flag with the caption "We fought the first war against terrorism." Contemplating this the mind truly boggles.
moioci
Brilliant as per, Dg.
But come on . . . they are not even mostly southern anymore . . . .
Rock on!
S
being the Imperial Wizard of the Neo-Confederate Southern White Christopath Party is a job-for-life
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Moving the deck chairs around is not enough for the conservative-wingers these days. You must sabotage the few lifeboats available on the grounds that they are "ENTITLEMENTS! Screeeee!"
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