Once upon a time, when I lived in Chicago and did not have cable teevee, I used to be up with the roosters to watch the Sunday Morning Mouse Circus and report on the various crimes against journalism that were being committed on live television.
And then I would write long, stirring, deeply analysed posts about what I had just witnessed which would be read by literally dozens of people.
But over the past few years I've kinda tapered off and this tweet pretty succinctly summarizes why:
It kinda takes the wind out of my sails when I realize that not only are the Sunday Shows an irreparably broken wasteland of toxic claptrap, and not only are they that way because wealth assholes in suits behind the cameras want them that way, but that the nature of their toxic claptrappery is so dismally predictable even a dirty hippie blogger like me can figure out which way they'll jump before the race is run."Hugh Hewitt" is trending , what asshole had him on TV— Dan Gman - Twi++er Jail Bird Human Scum Boomer (@DanGman4) June 28, 2020
.........................Oh Chuck Todd ........................never mind
From me, yesterday:
I'm sure Chuck Todd will have Hugh Hewitt on to explain why this is nothing to worry about and also taking down a statue of Jefferson Davis is the end of civilization as we know it. pic.twitter.com/Ok2p9Sjd3o— driftglass (@Mr_Electrico) June 27, 2020
For the record, Mr. Hewitt, who we established ling ago is definitely a Cyborg Sent From The Future To Destroy America, lied on national teevee about the pandemic death rate in Germany by a factor of 100. Then Chuck Todd stopped the show in its tracks, denounced Hewitt as the bloodless Quisling that he is, threw him off the set and told him never to darken Meet the Press' door again!
Bwahahaha!
Just kidding. Nothing like that happened or ever will happen. Ol' Shuck just let it slide because letting Republicans lie on teevee is what ol' Shuck was hired to do.
The Internet, bless its hexadecimal heart, was having none of it, and immediately began dragging Mr. Hewitt so hard that he was forced to "correct" his lie on Twitter. However, Mr. Hewitt remains steadfast that his acclaim for President Cornered Rat's handling of the pandemic based on that lie is still 100% valid.
Although to be charitable, I'm not sure that "lie" is the right word.
After all --
-- the A2s always were a bit twitchy.
No Half Measures
4 comments:
It's sort of disconcerting how closely contemporary life is tracking the script of "Idiocracy". Any WH announcements yet on watering the plants with Hydroxychloroquine?
Has Richard Epstein updated his COVID-19 predictions lately?
How the pampering media of the right wing are missing the H-U-G-e story.
The self-anointed conscience of Americans and the guardian of American history, Known to all as our beloved Peggers.
Has just made a realization and expresses ( in her wokeness that soft acceptance she would never extend to anyone other than her beloved GOP.
Peggy Nooners
Something shifted this month. Donald Trump’s hold on history loosened, and may be breaking. In some new way his limitations are being seen and acknowledged, and at a moment when people are worried about the continuance of their country and their own ability to continue within it. He hasn’t been equal to the multiple crises. Good news or bad, he rarely makes any situation better. And everyone kind of knows.
On Wednesday a Siena College/New York Times poll found Joe Biden ahead 50% to 36%. It’s a poll four months out, but it’s...
Was it the poll that woke Peggers or the series of morning cocktails?
Don't you think Chuck Todd should bring Peggers on in priority over the Hewitt?
Excellent, worth the wait for such 'suchness'.
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