The Mouse Circus really pushed the theoretical upper limit of shit-shoveling insults to the memory of Real Journalism today.
You want the short version?
Here it is
David Gregory: Num-num-num?
David Brooks: Num-num-num!
Some Republican Nob: Num-num-num x 3
Some Token "Liberal": Num-num-num - .05
David Gregory: Num-num-num?
David Brooks (reiterating his latest New York Times column): Num-num-num!
Seriously, that is all our Sunday Morning Communiques from Imperial Headquarters come down to anymore.
David Gregory: But the Tea Party sentiment of the Republican Party has won the day
hasn't it David Fucking Brooks?
David Fucking Brooks: That's what I liked about the Bold Ryan Plan To Let Old People Die In The Street.
I don't agree with every part of the Bold Ryan Plan To Let Old People Die In The Street, but in order to be taken seriously, President Obama will have to come out with charts-n-shit, Ross Perot-style.
GOP Panel Hack: The President of Hope and Change has become a divisive Commie populist!
David Gregory: But what about, y'know, those
In-De-Pend-Ent voters?
GOP Panel Hack: I like Barack Hussein Trotsky Ho Chi Minh Obama just fine as a person, but people are going to Send Him a Message.
David Gregory: What about that kookie Donald Trump
David Fucking Brooks?
David Fucking Brooks: I will now re-read my own, tongue-bathing New York Times column about the Trump and Gospel of Success as I awkwardly shift this potentially very embarrassing discussion of outright lunacy of my own political movement and party into
generic blather about the unhappiness of "the American people."
David Gregory: Cool! As a fellow member of the Imperial Blarney Caste, you need never worry that I will pop a cap of Actual Journalism into your Reasonable Conservative ass on this show!
Any final thoughts David Fucking Brooks?
David Brooks: Natural Gas (tm) is fucking awesome, while solar and wind power are both complete hippie pipe dreams. Also, for some reason, people have given up hope
in the political system.
Of course if you had had the sense God gave turnips and had fled as fast as your tiny turnip feet would take you away from this loathsome Establishmentarian circle jerk on to more international and in-depth fare at, say, “Fareed Zakaria GPS” on CNN you would have found...
...wait for it....
...wait for it....
...David Fucking Brooks staring right back at you again
{because no single Mouse Circus venue can contain the sheer, tidal force of his brilliance) bringing the full weight of his authority as America's Greatest Conservative Public Intellectual to bear on the task of psychoanalyzing the President of the United States:
"He’s multiple animals,” Brooks said. “You know, I would say we’re all – we all have multiple personalities. My psychobabble description of him is he’s a very complicated person who has many different selves, all of them authentic, but they come out in different contexts..."
So then, five things:
1. I personally have "given up hope in the political system" precisely because well-insulated, over-paid bootlicking apologists for Empire like David Brooks and David Gregory are the cherries on top of it. Because...
2. Any path towards saving this wounded old country from extinction must begin with a frank and unsparing discussion about the causes of and solutions to the horrifying reality that one half of our political system -- the Right half -- has gone full bull goose loony bugfuck nuts and they ain't ever coming back. And as long as well-insulated, over-paid bootlicking apologists for Empire like David Brooks and David Gregory control our national political conversation, we are never going to have that conversation.
Never.
Never.
Never.
3. The political roots of the T. Boone Pickens ♥s Natural Gas (tm) matter are deeper and more tangled
than you could possibly imagine.
4. This week, the part of Generic "Meet The Press" GOP Panel Hack was played by Alex Castellanos, while President John McCain made his obligatory appearance on MTP from Libya "One-on-One" (as this was his one millionth softball appearance on "Meet the Press", President McCain's next complimentary David Gregory hot oil massage will come with a Peppermint Cream Mani-Pedi absolutely free.)
5. Meanwhile back at the ranch, Franklin Graham has pretty much finished off the task of taking a big, bilious dump over every square in of his father's legacy.
5 comments:
As I stopped looking at it years ago (after the Bush stealing of the 2nd election), I'm not really in a good place to comment, however . . .
what else could they possible do on these shows anymore?
Liberals tells the truth (and there are no real independents left).
Can't have them on.
Except for the occasional Krugman, who everyone knows is an "ECONOMIST," so no one listens to him anyway.
. . . that is all our Sunday Morning Communiques from Imperial Headquarters come down to anymore.
As much as I love the image of Queen DFB (is he a queen? Oh, wait, never mind. The thought of him bumping uglies with anything is too soul-burning), I still utter loathe the image of Greggers contemplating his twat. The way he just kinda leers at it... contemplating it... staring at it.... Something about it disturbs me greatly.
Mike.K.
I still will sneak a peak at the Mouse Circus some mornings, usually This Week on ABC - maybe Krugman's breath of fresh air, or hoping against hope to see Armanpour inject some sanity.
Alas, my snippets of This Week included Billy Graham's son Franklin first stating that safety nets are the church's job (rather than government) and then blowing a big wet kiss to Donald Trump running for president!. That was just a warm up for a roundtable where some mega-church pastor decried the "nearly confiscatory rates" that are charged to rich people (I think he also said "approaching 50% in some states") and that such government taxes could affect same rich people from tithing their 10% of income to churches.
On Easter, no less. Church leaders speaking against taxes and against government safety nets. Jesus wept.
"...helping people is strictly the Church's function...
Like laws and regulations forced upon Banks and corporations by the government, Safety Nets and medical insurance were the result of Public Need and Public demand.
Banks won't self-regulate and Churches squeeze money from even their poorest followers, and give very little, if any, to those in need. THAT'S WHY GOVERNMENT WAS INVENTED.
What I enjoyed about Graham's glee about Trump (which was so bizarre, but obviously since he's a Southerner, his racism trumps his charity - oops, no pun intended), was his later explanation on Larry O'Donnell's show last night when he claimed he wanted a real Christian to run for president.
I mean, Trump? Seriously? This logic pretty much demolished any credibility Graham had to anyone but the most ignorant slob.
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