Eva Braun-Nose Getting Cranky With David Brooks Over Not Taking COVID19 Seriously

...may be the most perfect Conservative Nitwit Ouroboros moment ever.

Yes, David Brooks is an insipid gasbag.   He is the Pope of the High and Holy Church of Both Sides Do It, drunk on his newfound for love for a very specific "Whatever you do, don't judge David Brooks" version of Jesus.  A goof who writes swooning Whig Fan Fiction about the evils of the Extremes on Both Sides and the imaginary, down-home glories of "real" America.  The inexplicably beloved Sulzberger family house pet who is kept on salary at The New York Times no matter how often he shit the rug.

But to see Laura Ingraham light into him for being an insipid gasbag because OMFG doesn't he realize how bad things are getting?

The Moral Meaning of the Plaguehttps://t.co/qJHAvev6z8
3.3 million people have lost jobs, over a thousand are dead, and David Brooks wants to write about how the virus is good for our souls.

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 27, 2020

This Laura Ingraham?  President Cornered Rat's chief handjobber?

In late February, Ingraham called Democrats the “pandemic party” and displayed photos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) alongside enlarged images of coronavirus molecules. “How sick that these people seem almost happiest when Americans are hurting,” she said.

She kept at it through last Tuesday when, in front of a graphic reading “Trump confronts the panic pushers,” Ingraham said, “The public in some ways seems a lot more levelheaded than the so-called experts. . . . The facts are actually pretty reassuring, but you’d never know it watching all this stuff.”
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Fox News' most loyal defender of white supremacy?

Laura Ingraham loses sponsor over defense of white supremacist

The Fox News host called white supremacist Paul Nehlen and others "people who believe in national sovereignty."

That Laura Ingraham?

Yes, that Laura Ingraham.  Barking at David Fucking Brooks.

3.3 Million Americans lost their jobs last week, but these two oxygen thieves are still gainfully employed.

What a world.

The Abyss Stares Back

First They Came For The Demagogues

As regular media consumers know, Laura Ingraham (above, right) is one of those untouchable Elect of the Calumniati (tm driftglass) who -- for reasons that passeth all understanding -- are allowed to glide unchallenged back and forth between their day jobs as Hate Media gorgons, and their sometimes-weekend gigs as Honored Members of the Media Peerage at the

Sunday Morning Mouse Circus, where their media compatriots very politely agree not to mention to the viewers that they spend most of their time as one of Rupert Murdochs' lie-spewing hellbeasts.

This is known as "j-o-u-r-n-a-l-i-s-m".

And since Ms. Ingraham's has decided to use her privileged media position to launch into a breathtakingly offensive debasement of the "First they came ..." poem (usually attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller's, about the round up and murder of the Jews in Nazi Germany) into an yet other paranoid, self-pitying Hate Media paean to the Republican Party base ("First they can for the rich..."), I thought I would return the favor by using my privileged position as virtually invisible potty-mouthed blogger to give Ms. Ingraham a peek through the other end of her wingnut telescope.

Ahem.

First they came for the bigots, and I did not speak out because my cousin had a gay friend, and there's a black guy in my office;

Then they came for the oligarchs and fascists, and I did not speak out because I'm broke and brown makes my ass look fat;

Then they came for the theocrats, and I did not speak out because, Jeez, those people are just friggin scary;

Finally they came for me and the other eleven people left in the Conservative Movement — and there was no one left to speak out for us.

And America lived happily ever after.