Rush transcript from Charlie "The Rush Limbaugh of Wisconsin" Sykes' podcast:
We live in a world where the caricature dominate our debate and the caricature is that if you are a Leftist, then you hate America, you don't believe in July 4th and you wanna tear down statues of George Washington. And Fox News viewers will think that is what Liberalism is. And the Trump folks who played into that.Fun fact: Trafficking in (or "bulwarking", if you will) these very stereotypes was Charlie Sykes' bread-and-butter during the thirty years he spent as Wisconsin's most prominent Hate Radio personality.
Funny old world isn't it?
Mr. Sykes continues.
And of course there are also the stereotypes and caricatures of everybody on the Right is, y'know, ignorant, racist, toothless, carries a Confederate flag and thinks that Donald Trump walks on water. Well no, we're not all that way.Charlie, look very carefully.
The caricatures are coming...
...from inside your house.
Rick Wilson🤢about the wall and Trump supporters: "The wall has always been a con for Donald Trump’s credulous rube ten-toothed base. The wall has always been a scam. It has always been a lie. Nothing about the wall has ever been real." pic.twitter.com/yHVUbqiqPR— Wojciech Pawelczyk (@Woj_Pawelczyk) January 4, 2019
And as long as I'm putting myself though the slog of listening to this whining, straw-man strewn piffle, here's a gooey little slice of self-pity from earlier in the same podcast:
Charlie Sykes: Now...now I go back to this point because this...this...this is a problem I know that a lot of those of who are...I'm ...um...well I'll embrace the label of ...of ...a...Never Trump Conservative, we hear from the Left, "Well, um, we don't trust you because you are still Conservatives and you built this. Y'know, anyone who was a Conservative or supported Conservative ideas inevitably created Donald Trump." And of course our take on that is, uh, well, it's not quite that simple. Hubert Humphrey and Che Guevara are not the same person...Perhaps I missed it, but I don't recall Democrats ever nominating or electing Che Guevara.
However I do recall -- vividly -- that the last two presidents which Mr. Sykes' Republican Party has nominated and elected have been the two worst presidents in American history. And that during the interregnum between these two Republican disasters, as the Democrats tried to clean up after the multiple catastrophes that the Dubya Administration had left in its wake, Mr. Sykes' Republican Party expended all of its energy and political capital in a sustained racist primal scream against the Kenyan Usurper, trying everything it could dream up to slander and sabotage anything President Obama tried to do.
Then Mr. Sykes' Republican Party then went on to nominated and elect the King of the Birthers.
So how about, y'know, shutting the fuck up and going away forever?
How about that?
No Half Measures
6 comments:
Hi Driftglass. I've been a faithful reader for many years and I just wanted to say you're fucking awesome.
Point well made. Building off your post DG, I hate the whole 'Bush looks great now don't he?' revisionism because no, he doesn't look great now. He doesn't look even mildly better. That presidency and it's colossal disasters are still being felt today and Obama, for all his middle of the road politics, should have at the very least reversed some of the Bush fuck ups. Bush is the bumbling drunk that walks into a fine china shop and knocks over some cups and a few large platters then stumbles out mumbling to himself. Trump is the adolescent that runs in to a store and starts pulling everything off the shelves for the attention and mayhem and Sykes is the mother who, in a quiet voice, pleads with little Jonny to stop. Sykes and Wilson are complicit period. Thanks for the help. We'll take it but don't lecture us about how to think and feel about you. You don't deserve the media gig you have but if you're having it, do good works and shut the fuck up about it.
Understanding Sykes ' right wing radio hay day had come to an end once Walker became governor king of the space herpes mob.
His radio callers were dialing in to hate on Charlie. To disagree that he wasn't right wing enough . He wasn't paying monthly does to the KKK. They never seen him speak at a NAZI TEA Party gathering .
His right wing media career had come to an end and he knew it. His zombie children amassed to devour him. To sustain their hate. Conservative Cannibalism had become part of the ideology. Charlie's media demise came at a time of the republican great religious zealotry purges. When McCain had a black baby and he could not be nominated as the GOP presidential candidate for it. Charlie was there. The GOP's self inflicted worshiping of Ayn Rand's fictional novels as their new Conservative constitution, There was Charlie.
If Sykes was asked outright today on air, "did he support GW Bush and republicans bailing out Wall Street in 2008 with socialism or is it he stood tall on the notion Obama bailed out Wall street with liberal socialism as president in 2008 when Obama was inaugurated in Jan of 2009" ????
Then listen to his Kellyanne vocabulary of alternative facts.
Charlie operates out of entertainment to a selective crowd. If the price was right, Charlie would have 3 way sex with TRump and an underage bou. It is about survival at a lifestyle for himself at everyone elses expense.
Never been entertained by this media virus. Sykes can say things I could agree with on the surface. But that will change for him or not mean it or retract it later for expediency.
Never would I use him as a source of information. Credible information. So what good is he?
Then put some money in the tip jar, if you can.
The Lincoln lad message - the pure, uncut stuff will kill you. Better stick with your old dealer (if he didn't OD, that is).
I listen to Syke's podcast regularly. At least once an episode I metaphorically hi my head on my keyboard because although he shows a vague realization that he was somehow culpable in all of this, he still has the unconscious assumptions that at base it'e the Dem's fault that there is a President Trump.
I guess what I'm saying is that someday the great fairy what lives in the sky will grant my wish and let me reach through my monitor, down along the cables and wires of the internet, and dope-slap this guy.
I just can't even.
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