Correcting Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan writes:

The raw partisanship and threats confirm to me that [The Pwning Of Scott Walker] is a classic piece of partisan warfare under the guise of fiscal conservatism. It also confirms every left-wing conspiracy theorist on the power of the Koch brothers. "Bring a baseball bat?"

OK, but "confirms"...to whom?

Watching the Wisconsin Uprising unfold, no one on the Left who has observed the Right over the last 30 years building (often with your enthusiastic assistance) its vast, reprogrammable, killbot Base has needed any confirmation about anything.

And given the billions the Right has spent on cultivating that Base and constantly upgrading its propaganda machine, I have no doubt whatsoever that were Scott Walker to rub shit in his hair, set it on fire and run through the state capitol -- naked and accompanied by bazouki music -- yelling "David Koch cock tastes like Norweigan Jarlsburg!", within 2-3 months (and probably much sooner) the Golem Right would have completely forgotten it ever happened, and would retain only a vague, Fox-flavored aftertaste that Scott Walker is one tough, anti-Socialism sumbitch, and the protesters were all lazy moochers, welfare cheats and outside agitators.

So "confirms"...to whom?

The Right has long stopped being anything but a triumph of marketing fascist and fundamentalist heroin to stone Conservative addicts: sometimes the baggie gets stamped with a crude line-drawing of Reagan's face, sometimes Jesus, and sometimes a flag. For eight years the Kochs and their fellow oligarchs and Christopaths sold their poison with George Bush's smirking grin on the bag. Then, after too many people started puking up blood from their product, they switched packaging and began selling the same filth to the same junkies in red-white-and-blue tea bags.

In one, important way, what is happening in Wisconsin is culturally and politically notable for the same reason that a college student asking Newt Gingrich about his long history of lies and adultery -- a blindingly obvious question that establishmentarian testicle cozies like David Gregory have consistently refused to ask during any of their dozens of opportunity to do so -- has caused a momentary stir. It's not that it exposes some wild new facet of the depravity of the Right that everyone on the Left doesn't already know about. Rather, it exposes yet again the utter cowardice and complicity of the Koch and Gingrich-sized omissions in the mainstream press. Like Sherlock Holmes' dog that didn't bark in the night, it shows us all once again how deeply committed the Big Money Media is to collectively embargoing any serious reporting on the grotesque reality of what the Right has devolved into.

Not, of course, that we didn't all know that already :-)