Reports from the Ghost Town:
On “Face the Nation” Bob Schieffer has some Democrats on to tell us about some "election" that all the kids are talking about. Bernie Sanders is one of them (along with Ed Rendell and Bill Richardson) and while I like Bernie, I must assume that his presence at the Mouse Circus means that all 27,115 people specified by the Constitution to precede him in the Talking Heads Line of Succession have all simultaneously met with fates too grim to mention.
Very sad.
“Meet the Press” took back seat to golf.
So, basically, no difference.
On “Fox News Sunday” The Republiteabagger (Rand Paul) and Democratic (Jack Conway) Senate candidates from the retrograde state of Kentucky tried to out-sprint each other running away from Cap-and-Trade.
When it came to worker safety, however, Conway thinks that perhaps miners should not die in coal mines in huge numbers and that the regulations which protect their lives are a good thing.
Paul, on the other hand, appears to believe that such regulations make Capitalist Jesus cry, and the blood of honest laborers makes coal fires burn a little brighter and cheerier.
So there you go.
On a side note, I am still waiting for some reporter somewhere to ask even one of the Ayn Rand whelplings who are now running for office in deeply red, fundamentalist states their opinion of the fact that their High Priestess was a hard-core, pro-abortion-during-any-trimester.
“…by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives."
-- Ayn Rand, "A Last Survey — Part I", The Ayn Rand Letter Vol. IV, No. 2, 1975.
, atheist
who thought that Bible-beaters were every bit as evil and dangerous as the imaginary “collectivist/Marxist” Left which America’s staggeringly ignorant Right fetishistically blames for every one of their problems.
Later...
...Brit Hume continues to opine that the Obama White House is some kind of Radical Liberal Icarus that flew too close to the Marxist sun and will now be brought low.
...Mara Liasson was sure that, after the election, Barack Obama will have to “adopt a Clinton model” and Pivot To The Center.
...Bill Kristol noted that President Obama is quietly getting rid of all the clever “smart-alecky” people who “knew it all", like Rahm Emanuel. In fact, Kristol believes that Rahm running for Mayor of Chicago is just some kind of cover story and that if you “Googled Rahm Emanuel” you’d probably find that he had never even mentioned Chicago before now.
I assume that Kristol made this an assertion because, as a FoxNews employee, he could not be bothered to type all 12 letters (space included) in "Rahm Emanuel” into Google and hit "Enter" to find out if what he just pulled out of his lying, Neocon ass happened to be true or not. Like everyone else at FoxPAC (h/t Keith Olbermann) Kristol long ago abandoned the cramped, unhappy, left-biased world of “facts” to dive completely into the spacious and profitable art of Conservative reportorial scatomancey: pooping into a teacup, swirling it around and around until the letters “Liberals Hate America” begin to form, and “reporting” it as truth.
On “This Week” Christiane Amanpour did a town hall meeting on "Islam: A Bunch of Scary Brown People Out to Kill Us All...or not?"
I only caught a little of it, just enough to learn that Sharia Law, is (according to Billy Graham's weird, creepy kid) on the verge of taking over Christian Murrica (I guess Reverend Doctor Franklin Graham believes that his Omnipotent Cloud-Sitting Old Bearded Guy God is kind of a pussy to let that happen in an overwhelmingly Christian-identifying nation) and which, according to my typically Murrican Christian understanding of such things, I am led to understand works something like I this:
Or maybe that's "Burke's Law"?
Which, as I remember it, was part of a massive conspiracy to bury Murrica under a ten-foot layer of Aaron Spelling teevee shows and stunt our collective IQs to the point where we started taking the goofy opinions of teevee preachers seriously.
Hey, speaking of whackjob Jebus-hucksters, I also saw Gary Bauer -- the Fundy's own Snarling Christopath Gnome -- Quantum Leap in from 1987 to more-or-less hijack the conversation from the audience, calling all the way back to his glory days as a failed Republican Presidential candidate and card-carrying member of the Moral Majority to point out that Christians never rioted over Andres Serrano ("Piss Christ").
Brief, driftglass aside --
Man, the 80s never get old for these people.
And so strange that all of these Good Conservative Christians can seem capable of effortlessly remembering every little slight -- real or imagined, and in fucking molecular detail -- that has ever happened to them since the Hippies Lost Vietnam ...while at the same time forgetting vast and inconveniently bloody, incompetent, criminal and treasonous swaths of the depraved history of their Conservative Movement and Republican Party?
Something about straining at gnats and swallowing camels would probably be appropriate here.
It would also probably be appropriate to mention here that I am in possession of some video footage of New York Times columnist David Brooks lying rather spectacularly about his own past in exactly this manner: footage that I'm pretty sure no one else has and around which I will be wrapping some words and posting in the next day or two.
So Watch This Space...
-- end brief, driftglass aside.
Sure, Conservative American extremists might occasionally blow up a building or two in the name of Wingnut Jesus or the Turner Diaries, but the vicious little twats in the Christopath leadership caste have gotten smart enough to realize that it doesn;t need to waste its human cannon fodder like that.
They didn't call their ignorant armies to riot over offensive art because, like Teh Gay, uppity women who want to control their own bodies, the ACLU, Liberals and various scary brown people, they immediately recognized that this obscure piece of bad art could at least temporarily join the pantheon of Greatest Fucking Things Evah: another upgrade to that Bottomless Wingnut Outrage ATM that can be milked for tens of billions of dollars worth of ratings, contributions and votes apparently f-o-r-e-v-e-r.
One truly uplifting moment was the speech by Donna Marsh O'Connor (who lost her daughter in the 9/11 attacks) near the end of the town hall meeting about her sadness over how this did not seem "like an American conversation at all". How deeply the anti-Muslim Right violates the spirit of the America that they claim to love so much every time they open their hateful pie-holes. How consumed by rage and completely blinded to their own hypocrisy they are, and how little they seem to care.
I'm sure the video will be up soon.
In the meantime, its Sunday. Time to enjoy a cartoon. Hey how about the triumphantly brilliant "Right Wing Radio Duck" (h/t Gene)
which I'm sure will be available until the inevitable legions of Disney lawyers drop from the sky.
Also too, for anyone who is interested, I will be Live!Live!Live! on Kink on Tap this evening, Sunday, October 3rd at 8 PM Eastern, 5 PM Pacific.
Clothing optional.
14 comments:
I thought Captain Amos Burke was a little slow in breaking up the catfight.
Yo - just listened to your podcast (just now had time) and wondered if you were using something to disguise your voice so that no one in "real life" would recognize it?
It sounds like it's going through some sort of distorter - or is your voice naturally that way?
Just curious.
Anon,
Because he hates America.
loretta,
I'm too po' to afford a vocoder, so I just gargle with scotch and eat a pound of brie before each broadcast :-)
Well, I did risk insult, and no insult intended. It just sounds a little like Jame Gumm in "Silence of the Lambs."
heh.
loretta,
No insult taken.
I've also been told I sound a little like B9 from "Lost in Space".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG0ochx16Dg
To me I just sound like me.
Man talking about working hard on Sunday. I had heard bad things about lil billy, but he really is quite the little fascist douche bag huh...
..and to think, his dad was such a well spoken anti-Semite.
"Right wing radio duck" is a fairly amazing bit of work. Very seamless. All the inserts and syncing. I hope that guy is making a living with it.
Drifty, after watching This Week I have hope for our country. The applause for the pro-fear panelists was very weak.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9248669
gargling scotch and devouring brie . . . I knew I was in the right place
;)
Burkes Law. That is some deep catalog stuff. Wasn't old Gene also Bat Masterson?
Funny how Paul is now trying to spin the GOP's extra $4 trillion in budget costs as not being costs if he doesn't choose to see them as costs.
Paul "A Isn't A If I Say So" Rand of the 21st Century laughs at your reality, & replaces it with his own!
Dear Brit:
Barack Obama has used progressives and the left wing of the democratic party like a South Carolina redneck uses a corn-cob, when he went to Food Lion and didn't remember that Myrtle June told him to get some Charmin.
It culminated about 10 days ago, when Obama appeared in front of a $30,000 a plate fundraiser for fatcat dems, and beat on us like the proverbial pinata. It was well received.
Unfortunately for Obama and the rest of the "centrist" democrats, the reception at the polls on Nov. 2nd doesn't look like it's going to be quite as affectionate.
The notion that this country-club republican-in-blackface is some kind of socialist/communist, is the purest lunacy...which brings us to Harry Truman's observation that the voters will pick a real repubican over a fake democrat, every time.
It remains to be proven, but I wouldn't bet against that happening, in about 28 days.
Hey, the choices suck but that doesn't mean I'm not going to exercise my right to make one! We'll see how many others make that calculation.
There are 3 proposed amendments on the ballot in my state, all 3 of which would gut state funding; 50% reduction in education funding, eliminate the ability of counties and cities to issue bonds for projects, etc. The local wealthy, convicted slumlord libertarian is behind it all, from a well-disguised distance since we all saw what his last attempt did to state finances. I'm looking at it as a state-wide intelligence test.
Stick, I think they'll choose, but I think the choice is going to be a real shock to progressives who worked hard to help Mr. Centrist get into the White House.
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