The Voice of Empire, Ctd.

The Mouse Circus: where craven overcompensating for non-existent Liberal Bias is always Job One!

The only real "news" of any kind was that Mitch Daniels has refused the Siren's Song of hot three-way Presidential action with his wife and Uncle Sam, despite the fact that, as the video below clearly explains (begins with commercial), "It's okay when it's in a three-way, it's not gay when it's in a three-way. With some honey in the middle there's some leeway...":



Hand's down, the most astute prediction this Sunday was made by Rachel Maddow when she notes that Conservatives might very well just fucking bypass the Mainstream Media altogether this cycle. That as mindless adherence to perfect ideological purity becomes the baseline-norm within GOP, any conversation with non-Hate Media employees will be seen by the Pig People who now own the Party as "capitulation".

Everything else was a grainy, exhausted, 10th generation photocopy of every other Mouse Circus you have ever seen. Poo was flung. Beltway Common Wisdom extolled. The usual suspects were trotted out to read the same bullshit scripts you have heard a hundred times before. And nowhere was anything remotely resembling a genuine Liberal was permitted within a 1,000 miles of any of it.

Or, as they say at Miss Brooks Finishing School for Young Pundits



Mission Accomplished!


"Paul Ryan opens the window to come to the middle!" (Andrew Ross Sorkin on "Meet the Gregory")

Reasonable!

Serious!

If only the Democrats...

If Democrats would just...

The problem is, Democrats are unwilling...

If only Both Sides...something something.

It's about the math!

It's a jobs-election.

A more pragmatic candidate!

Does that raise questions about his authenticity?

Sigh.

Newt "Big Adjectives" Gingrich once again (Dramatically!) used his Infinite Wonka Golden Ticket Backstage TeeVee Pass to (Fundamentally!) commandeer the "Fa[r]ce the Nation" program to (Fecklessly!) lie some more (Newt Gingrich, it turns out, single-handedly wiped out the deficit and created millions of jobs!)...

...while elsewhere the Sunday Puppets continued to (Remarkably!) pretend that while Gingrich is now (Basically!) all but dead as a candidate, he remains "a powerful intellectual force...a factor...a catalyst" (Mike Murphy).

What they failed to mention -- what they always fail to mention -- is that Gingrich remains "relevant" only because these fuckers continue to let him jerk off on camera on their dime week after week after week.

After which -- in what has become an unintentionally hilariously regular feature -- David Gregory continued his efforts to drag "Meet the Gregory" as far away from real journalism as possible by drooling over his Very Big TweetDeck to see what the Great Unwashed are ook-ooking about.

Over on the Rupert Murdoch Network, Herman Cain (Fox's latest Candidate Deadmeat) embarrasses himself right on cue.

Finally, across the Cableverse, the poor-relation Mouse Circus sideshow acts were doing their bit to destroy any scraps of American teevee journalism that might escaped the Mainstream Villager steamroller: David Frum crawled off of his hot rock long enough to blink seethingly (I used to justify illegal wars for fucking White House!) at me from my teevee, as did pure cartoon characters like Stephen Hadley (I used to help start illegal wars for fucking White House!) and Dick Armey.

Dick Fucking Armey.

Honestly, fact that Armey -- former House Majority Leader and the Teabagger's own gin-soaked Marshall Applewhite -- is permitted anywhere near the business end of a camera to babble things like "Paul Ryan is doing more to save grandma's health care than anyone I know right now!" instead being exiled for the rest of his miserable life to where he belongs -- passed out in his own week-old shit on some 3rd rate Renaissance Fair dunk-tank stool while children heave bean-bags at him for a-nickle-a-throw -- tells you exactly how far face-down into the dung-pit the Mouse Circus has fallen.