"Extremism in the defense of Fake Centrism is no virtue" Edition
The Mouse Circus was like a Louisiana beach today: however nice the surface may look, everywhere you poke a stick, the same toxic goo oozes to the surface.
Thank goodness, Barack Obama is finally reaching out to Republicans!
Thank God Barack Obama is finally behaving like a Moderate!
Thank Mammon Barack Obama is finally friendly to business!
Sure, it was all kinds of fun watching David Gregory batting an oily halfwit like Eric Cantor around like a cat toy for a few minutes. Proving, if nothing else, that the average Republican is so callow and has a sense of civic responsibility so rotted out they can be spooked into shitting themselves on camera by little more than a follow-up question or two tossed back at any one of the flagrantly ridiculous lies and frauds in which they traffic.
(And, frankly, probably had a lot more to do with this number than with any authentic, spontaneous generation of journalistic integrity on the part of Mr. Gregory:
Ratings Report for ABC News’ “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” For Sunday, January 16, 2010
January 21, 2011
On January 16, 2011, ABC News’ “This Week with Christiane Amanpour” drew 2.46 million Total Viewers and 660,000 Adults 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research.
For the second week in a row, “This Week” narrowed the Total Viewer gap (-5%) with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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Christiane Amanpour is the anchor of “This Week” and James Goldston is the executive producer. The program airs Sundays on the ABC Television Network.
(Sunday, January 16, 2011) TOTAL VIEWERS A25-54 MM/Rtg
ABC “THIS WEEK” 2,460,000 660,000/0.5
NBC “MEET THE PRESS” 3,240,000 1,060,000/0.8
CBS “FACE THE NATION” 2,990,000 790,000/0.6
FOX “FOX NEWS SUNDAY” 1,320,000 500,000/0.4 )
But lets face it, oily little twats like Cantor, sold-out, dried-out, venom bags like McCain and the hundreds of others who hold high office and wield tremendous power on behalf of their depraved ideology because our fellow Americans elected them: every time you look into Michele Bachmann's deranged, soul-dead eyes, remember that the only reason this unhinged botch exists as a national figure is that tens of thousands of Minnesotans have looked into those same crazyholes and seen Sweet Baby Republican Jebus smiling back at them.
The Great Wad wants it's bullshit Centrist fairy tales treated as gospel, and so everywhere else it was like this...
George Will: The number of Americans who identify Barack Obama as "Liberal" has dropped by 10 points. His popularity among illiterate hicks is up!
Krugman: Yeah. He appointed the guy who has laid off whole cities-worth of Americans, exported those jobs overseas, makes most of his dough as a financial manager of his foreign bank accounts...and the rubes think this is a good thing.
3...2...1...
There's a brand new stance but I don't know its name
That rube-baiting Baggers do again and again
It's big and it's bland full of tension and fear
They do it over there but we don't do it here
Fascists! Turn to the Right.
Fascists! Turn to the Right.
Oooh, fascists
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town
Beep-beep
Beep-beep
Listen to me
don't listen to me
Talk to me
don't talk to me
Dance with me
don't dance with me.
No
Beep-beep
There's a brand new talk, but it's not very clear
Oh bop...Centrists
That people from K Street are talking this year
Oh bop, Centrists
It's loud and tasteless and I've heard it before
Oh bop
You shout it while you're outsourcing jobs to Bangalore
Oh bop, Centrists
Centrists...Turn to the Right!
Centrists! Right!
Centrists!
We are the goon squad and we've never left town
Beep-beep
Beep-beep
Listen to me
don't listen to me
Talk to me
don't talk to me
Dance with me
don't dance with me, no
Beep-beep
Beep-beep
1 comment:
I've got an extremely political, apparently anarchic friend who (1) hates Obama as a corporate sell-out, (2) vowed years ago to never vote for a democrat (Nader, sure), and (3) sincerely, deeply wants Sarah Palin to win the presidency in 2012 - he'll even volunteer to help. Why? Because then, then by God, the country would finally become fucked enough to bring about the Progressive Revolution 2.0.
I told him I won't work to enable fascists on the vanishingly small chance that out the other side we'll see the bestest, Newest Deal ever.
If the fascists complete their takeover of the US, they won't be giving it back this time, ever.
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