People Willing to Play Chicken

With the fate of millions of their fellow human beings for political advantage forfeit their right to be taken seriously about anything, ever.

What I learned on Morning Joe yesterday:

Harold Ford Junior really is a vampire.

Every time I have seen him on teevee he has opened his pie hole and nothing but vapid, Centrist tripe comes drizzling out.

Every time. Without fail. A mouthful of simple, declarative Nothing, regurgitating whatever the Beltway Common Wisdom was five minutes ago, urped up on command,

Yesterday he tried running this shuck on Ezra Klein, who pounded him into the ground like a tent stake. Using math! The villain!

It was a career-ending humiliation that would annihilate a mere mortal, but not Harold Ford Junior.

See, being a a craven, Wall-Street-ball-sucking fool in front of a camera is Harold Ford Junior's career. Harold Ford Junior's job is to dutifully say what his corporate owners want him to say, and it is a job he performs to a fault. So tomorrow, or next week, or two weeks from now, expect the Very Serious Harold Ford Junior to rise once again from the Graveyard of the Dunces and show up on a teevee near you.

What I learned on Morning Joe today:

1. From Mark Halperin I learned that Barack Obama insulted the Very Serious Paul Ryan in a way that was utterly unprecedented, and that if Republican leaders had ever said such mean things about Democrats, the media would be Up In Arms.


2. From Joe Scarborough I learned the only people who believe Paul Ryan is Unserious are crazy, DFH "bloggers" who are "detached from reality".

In case you are unfamiliar, Morning Joe is the three-hours of peak-drivetime air that Unserious, Liberal MSNBC hands over the former Republican Congressman and current Conservative Pundit Joe Scarborough (and his sidekick) to do with as he pleases.

Liberal media?

You're soaking in it!