This Halloween Hugh Hewitt Went Trick-or-Treating as Robert Novak

If you have been around these precincts for a very long time, you may remember way, way back during the Before Time  (y'know, the Good Olde Days for which we are all supposed to be nostalgic and to which we are all supposed to aspire) there existed a dyspeptic, Conservative prick named Robert Novak.   

Novakula to his critics, which were legion.

If you remember him at all, it was probably for the effortless way Frank Zappa gutted him like a trout  (or a Trout Mask Replica) in 1986 on a now-mercifully-defunct teevee program called Crossfire.

Novak was a terrible, terrible person who, if he were alive today, would undoubtedly be stinking up the noosphere with his own program on NewsMax or Fox.  He would also be one of the obligatory right wing asshole quota hires at a major American newspaper. plus, of course, he'd have his own radio show and podcast.  

But he's dead, so we are spared all of that.

What is less well-remembered except by the last remaining member of the Liberal Blogosphere Tontine is the time that James Carville found Novak's "launch codes" as I put it at the time (way back in 2005), and induced him to say a swear on teevee and storm off the show.  

Well, did a loyal American cameraman perhaps land a priest-blessed silver flickdart in the oily flanks of Human Gallstone, Bobby Novak?

Did some someone opening a window on the other side of the building set in motion a never-to-be-reproduced, trick-pool-shot with a ray of sunlight reflecting off of a pair of spectacles, caroming from a watch-face, ricocheting from a hand-mirror and refracting from the newly squeegeed framed Hockney print in the hall...only to land on the undead flesh of he-who-was-cobble-together-from-Krauthammer-leftovers, searing the beast and sending him into a smoking, insane rage.

Did someone slip a little Holy Water into his vinegar and Victory Gin onscreen beverage?

No, but one thing is clear: the Number One Rightwing Golem “journalist” lost it on-camera. Something got all burr-ish under the saddle of CIA-outing, GOP ponyboy. The good people at Crooks and Liars had it up in seconds, and it seems to make no sense at all.

He and James Carville are chatting, and suddenly he shouts “Bullshit”, gets up and stomps away.

God have mercy on Bob Novak’s dog tonight.

The issue was that Novak acted as bagman for the Bush administration's plot to out an active, undercover CIA agent to punish her husband for proving that Bush was lying his ass off about the predicate for his Iraq war.  (Fun fact:  all the sleazy collusion and sometimes outright treasonous behavior by administration officials and the Conservative media the took place during what the Never Trumpers now consider to be the good old days.)

Anyhoo, as I recall, James Carville telescoped his punch just enough to let Novak know that he was about to be outed on live national television, and Novak proceeded to lose his shit:

They teach you that on day one at Conservative media sleepaway camp:  when you find yourself well and truly cornered, play the aggrieved martyr by pitching a big, performative tantrum and stomping out.  

Which brings us, perforce, to the case of Hugh Hewitt, the cyborg sent from the future to destroy America.  Since Hewitt does not experience human emotions, when it came time for him to reserve a high place for himself in any future Trumpian Republican party by playing the martyr, staging a hissy and stomping out, it was weird and awkward.  Like something a Roomba with rudimentary AI features might have practiced in front of a mirror several times the night before.  

But by ENIAC, he did it!

From Politico:

Hugh Hewitt resigns from Washington Post after storming out of live interview

Hewitt abruptly left a live broadcast of the Post’s show “First Look,” leaving the host and his fellow guest stunned.

Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt resigned Friday from his columnist position at The Washington Post, he confirmed to Fox News, after walking out on a live interview on the paper’s video platform — the latest blow to the Post after facing widespread blowback over halting presidential endorsements.

Hewitt stormed out during a live broadcast of the Post’s show “First Look” during a discussion Friday morning about how former President Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to potentially contest the election, leaving host Jonathan Capehart and fellow guest Ruth Marcus stunned.

“We are newspeople, even though we have opinions, and we have to report the whole story if we bring up part of the story,” Hewitt said during a heated exchange over a GOP Pennsylvania voting lawsuit he reminded viewers “was successful.”

“I don’t appreciate being lectured about reporting when, Hugh, many times you come here saying lots of things that aren’t based in fact,” Capehart replied.

“I won’t come back, Jonathan, I’m done,” Hewitt shot back, removing his ear piece and walking off screen. “This is the most unfair election ad I have ever been a part of.”...

The only part of this with which I disagree is the bit about this being "the latest blow to the Post after facing widespread blowback..." blah blah blah.  Au contraire!  To misquote the Scottish play, nothing in Hewitt's tenure at the Post became him like the leaving it.

The only part of this I regret is that conditions were such that Hewitt could not execute a Full Steve Schmidt:  doing the martyr/tantrum thing and then storming off his own podcast.

From me, February 11, 2019:

Steve Schmidt Launches New "Bullshit Walks" Podcast.

Steve Schmidt:  Professional Indignantista

First, we should get the laughter out of the way. 

 

Soooo much laughter. 

 

Gales of laughter. 

 

From The Daily Beast:

Steve Schmidt Storms Off Own Podcast When Asked About Advising Howard Schultz 

“This is bullsh*t,” Schmidt exclaims. “I’m not doing this.”...

The Schmidt case also provides us with an excellent example of how the Media Insider Club works.  Membership in the Club virtually guaranteed that no matter how hard a member of the Club schmidts the bed, sooner or later a place will be found for them back in the opinion-havers guild 

From me again, in January of this very year.

A Rising Grift Raises All Lifeboats

I tell ya kids, they learn this  artifice early on during Insider Club media orientation week/

And just for you...Bonus Tantrum!   Who can forget  Markos Moulitsas vs Tom Tancredo (2:04 time code):

Burn The Lifeboats

Life In Hell

 

Thanks to Alert Reader Erika for pointing this out!

I Am The Liberal Media

How to Create “Public Opinion” Out of Thin Air

On the subject of manufacturing audience perception by repetition, let us turn to Mr. Hugh Hewitt.  The Conservative cyborg sent from the future to destroy America (and MSNBC would very much appreciate it if you would forget that they gave this like you to forget that they gave this clinking clanking clattering collection of caliginous junk his own show on that network not so very long ago.)   

So, how does one go about turning the objective fact that Trump's ass got spit roasted and served up on the good china by Kamala Harris into "Trump's Unequivocal Victory!"

Well, it's a process. 

First, Hewitt went on the "Still Drunk With Larry Kudlow!" show on Fox, where the puppets and grifters there were desperately trying to make a smiley face out of Trump's epic bed-shitting.

Hewitt kept repeating that it was an ambush!  The worst debate in presidential history!

The weaponization of lawfare is well understood by most Americans, but the weaponization of the media has never been seen that nakedly before and it's having an impact!

But despite the despicable Liberal media plot against him, and making a few, small mistakes Trump actually emerged victorious!

He just went on and on like that.

Second, he recycled thet bullshit into his very own Fox News dot com column!

Morning Glory: The worst debate in the history of presidential debates.   ABC and Disney disgraced and exposed themselves. Republicans and fair-minded independents will never forget. 

Third, did you know Hugh Hewitt also has his own radio show?  Incredibles but true.  Called something like the Hugh-niverse I believe.  And on his very bad radio show Hewit read from his own column and ran clips of himself from  the "Still Drunk With Larry Kudlow!" show because it is through the magic of repetition, bullshit becomes true.

The fourth step is Tweeting his own radio bullshit with the subject line -- 

Upon Further Review, The Officials In The Booth Have Reversed The Call On The Field On The Debate.

-- because someone told this sad little cyborg that humans like the sportsgames and that using the sportsgames metaphors would make him seem credible to humans.

Fifth, Hewitt reappeared on a different Fox News shithole program to repeat this super awesome sportsgame metaphor that will definitely convince humans that Trump!Won!

Hewitt: I think Trump knows he's in the process of winning the debate on Tuesday. NFL fans are familiar with the phrase upon further review officials have reversed the call.. Upon further review, the American public has decided that debate was rigged pic.twitter.com/rO4ffsm0xt

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 12, 2024

Six, and most pathetically, Hewitt retweeted is own Tweet directly to Donald Trump with this heading  

This is happening.  Harris know it. Everyone knows it. Some won’t admit it. But it is happening.

Now, you might be asking yourself, is there a seventh step in this process?

Damn you're clever, because yes there is!

Stepp Seven is some Never Trumper inevitably wondering sadly whatever happened to good-old so-and-so.  He used to be awesome.

A once serious human reduced to posting tweets that he agrees with his tweets.

How does this happen? https://t.co/gkqneoGmIG

— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) September 12, 2024

C'mon Stuart.  You know how this happens.  In fact you wrote a whole book about how this happens.

We over here on the Left knew that Hewitt was never a serious human.  He just used to be more discreet about flashing his banal villainy in public and he masked his ideological perversity with big words.  

But the price of riding the Trump train is shedding all nuance and fig leafs and wallowing in the ugliness, which Hewitt has dropped trou and done so without a moment's hesitation.

I Am The Liberal Media

Because He's Hugh Hewitt

Why did he "flip"?

He didn't flip.  Flipping implies Hewitt actually believed the thing he said he believed before he did a 180.  

Which is absurd.  

C'mon people.  We've been over this 1,000 times. 

As we all know,  Hugh Hewitt is a cyborg sent from the future to destroy America.  

As such, other than his "Destroy America" prime directive, he doesn't have "principles" or "beliefs": he merely responses to prevailing stimuli.

If you decided that MS Office no longer served your needs and you dropped it and went with Google Workspace, that's not "flipping".  This is no different.  Hewitt merely swapped out his "ImmigrationPro" software package because it's no longer supported and no longer serves his prime directive, and upgrades to an "ImmigrationAnti"software suite which works better.  

For now.  

And if that software stops doing the job, he'll swap it out for something else.  

 Because that's what "reprogrammable" means.

Burn The Lifeboats

Hugh Hewitt Makes History

Last night Hugh Hewitt made history by being the first cyborg sent from the future to destroy America to co-moderate a Republican presidential candidate debate.

Amazing that NBC had to agree to rope in a smarmy apparatchik like Hugh Hewitt to make it a safe space for the Republican candidates.

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 9, 2023

On the one hand, he was terrible.

On the other hand, he was no worse than the other two moderators, or the goobers up on the stage.  

I dunno what I was watching last night, but it sure as hell wasn't a "debate" among people who were trying to beat Donald Trump.

I Am The Liberal Media

Reminder: Five Minutes Ago This Malfunctioning Time-Traveling America-Destroying Cyborg Had His Own Show on MSNBC

And the rest of the on-air talent would grit their teeth, slap a contractually-obliged smile on their faces and pretend (badly) that it was one big happy family over there.

Jack Smith, an American Javert, should be obliged to prosecute this case outside of the Beltway. Former President Trump deserves a fair trial on these unprecedented charges which will strike tens of millions of Americans as a political witch hunt.

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 1, 2023

I Am The Liberal Media

Area Cyborg Suddenly Notices He's on the Wrong Side of History

The media's most infamous Cyborg Sent From the Future to Destroy America had a fine time riding in the MAGA clown car, being revered by inbred morons and generally sticking his head out the window and feeling the "not only did Trump not commit an impeachable offense, he committed no offense at all" wind whipping through his corroded synapses as they sped right off of a cliff they never noticed was there.

And then current events finally bulldozed its way into the conversation:

“Truth is on our side. This is our land, our country, our children, and we will keep defending them all,” President Zelensky said in video recorded outside Kyiv presidential HQ “Glory to Ukraine.” Just Tweet that again and again at anyone slow-walking sanctions. #Ukraine

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) February 26, 2022

Funny thing about cyborgs: when you burn their lifeboat they sink straight to the bottom of the sea.

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Malfunctioning Cyborg Thinks It Has a Soul

What happens when the media's most infamous Cyborg Sent From the Future to Destroy America goes too long without basic maintenance?

His hard drive starts to thrash and he gets confused about what's happening inside his corroded tin ticker.

My adult life has included fall of Saigon, Iran hostage crisis, Beirut bombing, KA007, Iran-Contra affair, 9/11, escape of bin Laden, the Iraq WMD and occupation, JCPOA, Putin and Georgia and Ukraine, Hong Kong. This is the worst, not in loss of life, but in deep damage to soul.

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) August 25, 2021

And once a malfunctioning Hewitt starts getting grandiose ideas, you know what happens next:

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How To Recognize Shambolic Wingnut Disasters From Quite a Long Way Away

Hey. look who's gettin' noticed on a regular basis these days!

Submoronic, partisan hack -- and a mediocre one at that -- doesn't understand that the Constitution expressly provides for an impeachment process by Congress alone that is not identical in structure to a criminal or civil trial with petit jurors. Fancy that. Thanks for nothing. https://t.co/hdoAkM5oui

— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 11, 2021

Hewitt, you hollowed-out little fucksquib, you've crossed the only rubicon that truly matters here. In your transparent attempt to cater to the beshitted and bespittled deplorati who easily squee at any half-ass trope that imagines decadent and vile elites, you have wantonly... https://t.co/WkH52Rz3KP

— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 12, 2021

...the citizenry make a point of pausing in our routine of nightly intramural violence and disorder whenever we catch the scent of a true and enduring piece of shit edging over the city line, whereupon we close ranks and hunt that low fucker en masse, bag him live...

— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 12, 2021

...then barter him off in pieces for crack vials and bags of Utz crab chips. So, yes, you dumb scrotelicking welp of a mediawhore, stay where you are or keep hunting for me in West L.A. because Baltimore is not your speed, as facts and reality are not your domain.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 12, 2021

Not for nothin' but if I'd ever said anything like this I'd have been suspended from Twitter for three lifetimes, instead of just the one.  

Feels like my work here is about done. 

 And what work is that?

Spotting Shambolic Wingnut Disasters from quite a long way away.  Often while they're enjoying a profitable turn --

-- as Respected Thinkers --

-- on that Liberal cable teevee station --

-- that all the kids -- 

-- are talking about!  

Or, on any given Sunday, at the Gasbag Cavalcade on broadcast teevee's major networks.

Then, of course, comes the requisite amount of either being ignored or slagged for either focusing on irrelevancies or dredging up the past or saying terribly mean things about our new "allies" --

-- because ALL HANDS ON DECK and so forth.

Then, in the fullness of time, a few Bluechecks start to notice that some of the irrelevancies were maybe not so irrelevant after all, and that the past actually matters, and those goons and grifters that cable teevee packaged as friendly faces were not so friendly after all.  

Ah well.  

Speaking of goons and grifters who have been quietly phased out of the regular Liberal cable teevee  rotation, please don't worry that Hugh Hewitt in floating out there in the Hughniverse, friendless and alone, now that the mask is completely gone and we can all see him as the Cyborg Sent From the Future to Destroy America that he has always been.

Hugh is doing just fine and has plenty of company.

Here, for example, we find Hugh interviewing Matthew Continetti, another former MSNBC child star who followed the GOP slime trail a couple of stories down the rabbit hole and now write schlock for Commentary magazine.

Hugh Hewitt says the media should tell the public a major problem with the Senate impeachment trial, “victims ought never to be jurors.”

His guest replies: “The mob targeted the elected officials of the United States … There’s no way, I think, of getting out of that situation.” pic.twitter.com/l4us4N4Ovj

— Eric Kleefeld (@EricKleefeld) February 11, 2021

Quite a fall for Continetti who used to enjoy buddying up with fellow Conservatives around the Meet the Press campfire, secure in the knowledge that Chuck Todd was never in a million years going to ask him an inconvenient  question. 

Instead (and follow me here because this stacking of panels with Conservatives who are all deeply interconnect with each other, know each other and have worked for/with each other is the norm for Meet the Press) in this clip from 2018 we find Chuck Todd reading aloud from a column by ambulatory venom sac Rich Lowry, and asking Continetti, David Brooks and Eliana Johnson to react to it.

So here's the history.

Continetti worked as a research assistant for Rich Lowry before joining The Weekly Standard as an editorial assistant under Bill Kristol, and later as associate editor before moving on to work for Lowry at the National Review and starting his own wingnut welfare rag, the Washington Free Beacon.

David Brooks was the managing editor for the The Weekly Standard under Bill Kristol before landing a job-for-life at The New York Times.

And Eliana Johnson Johnson was Sean Hannity's producer at Fox News before going to work for Rich Lowry at the National Review.  She eventually moved on to become the editor-in-chief of, you probably guessed it, the Washington Free Beacon after Continetti left.

So how did a bland, dead-eyed cipher like Matthew Continetti get a leg up into this charmed wingnut welfare circle jerk to begin with?  Ah, I see I neglected to mention that Continetti is Bill Kristol's son-in-law.  

Bill Kristol, who lost The Weekly Standard due to the changing tastes of its readership, but gained The Bulwark. 

Bill Kristol, who has recently been promoted up from wingnut goon and grifter and back into the ranks of Respected Conservative Thinkers, and who can be seen on MSNBC pretty much any day of the week blabbing his opinions secure in the knowledge that none of the MSNBC hosts would ever in a million ask him an inconvenient question. 

Because ALL HANDS ON DECK and so forth.

And thus the circle of wingnut life is complete.

No Half Measures

Stop Expecting Hugh Hewitt To Do Better

Stop expecting him to feel shame or doubt or to care about facts.

I feel like Hugh Hewitt keeps inventing new excuses for coddling terrorists. https://t.co/6IsPAjzfF6

— Dr. emptywheel (@emptywheel) January 12, 2021

Stop expecting him to show any inkling of contrition or remorse.  Because shame, doubt, contrition, and remorse are all human feelings,  as we on the Left have known for years, Hugh Hewitt is a Cyborg Sent From The Future To Destroy America (tm).

As such, Hewitt is unburdened by human feelings and concerns.  Instead he has a mission -- to sow the seeds of a fascist Republican future by shredding any remaining pretense that the constitution means anything to Republicans and to do whatever he can to insure that a deranged, unrepentant and unconvicted Trump is free to continue wrecking the country from whatever perch he lands on after he is removed from office.

This is  Hewitt's only focus.  His singular concern.  Which is why he will occasionally mess up and blurt out up that this is indeed all about which future will unfold from the present events.

Hewitt writes that many impeachment proponents have “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and the claims to know what motivates them – and what doesn’t.

“Of concern for the country, well, concern for that part of the country they don’t inhabit, there is none.”

2/

— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) January 9, 2021

And in this, Hewitt is 100% correct.

This is all about which American future will grow from the seeds we plant today:  Hewitt's or ours.  

No Half Measures

Hugh Hewitt Will Never Be A Real Boy

He lies too much.

And by "too much" I mean, to borrow a phrase from Paul to the Thessalonians, Hewitt lies "without ceasing".

Instead, Fred Hiatt's in-house Republican testicle-cozy is doomed to forever be what he has always been --

-- a Cyborg Sent From The Future to Destroy America (™).

Hewitt in the WaPo today:

Objecting to the electoral college vote is no constitutional crisis

Whether a U.S. representative or senator objects to the certification of the vote of the electoral college on Jan. 6 is not an indictment of their commitment to the country, the Constitution or their party. Nor is it any sign of crisis or danger that a significant number of members of both bodies are about to so vote. Every member of Congress is discharging a representative function, and some of the objectors are fulfilling that job.

Some, such as Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), have deep-seated reservations about the conduct of the election and wish to air them. Others want to remind the body of allegations they may not believe but which their constituents would like investigated.

I am not persuaded that any state vote, subsequent recount or court challenge should rise to this level of debate. Not one court in any case found the threshold level of evidence necessary to establish significant fraud, so I would not vote to object. But I am not a senator or representative. I didn’t think there was anything remotely approaching an impeachable offense a year ago, nor did 99 percent of Republicans in the Congress. But that didn’t stop Democrats from pressing on with a foolhardy impeachment that cost the country dearly...

Hewitt is such a horrendous blight on the threadbare remains of American political journalism, such a standout example of everything that is horrible and broken in the mainstream media, that I can only assume we'll be seeing him making a triumphant return visit to Meet the Press as a Respected NBC Contributor before the month is out.  

No Half Measures

Can You Spot The Error In This Hugh Hewitt Quote?

From Media Matters:

NBC News contributor Hugh Hewitt asks the White House to appoint a special counsel to investigate “both Bidens”

Hewitt’s special counsel would continue to investigate Joe Biden after the election, regardless of who wins

...And while the emails did not appear to actually show any malfeasance on Joe Biden’s part, Hewitt said he would like to see President Donald Trump order Attorney General Bill Barr to appoint a special counsel to determine “whether or not any laws were broken.”

Hewitt, who had vigorously opposed the various investigations of Trump and had painted a number of elaborate conspiracy theories in his support, proclaimed: “This is one of the few times in my life, I believe the special counsel is necessary for this reason. If the president wins, people will believe any prosecution brought as a result of these emails will be a revenge prosecution. If he loses, they will believe that anything that doesn’t happen will be because of a coverup.”...

You figured it out didn't you?  Obviously Cyborgs Sent From the Future to Destroy America are not "alive" in any conventional sense, therefor this cannot be one of "the few times in [Hugh Hewitt's] life" yadda yadda yadda.

You're so clever.  

Behold, a Tip Jar!

UPDATE: Megyn Kelly Is Unsure Whose Knob She Has To Polish To Get Back Into The Spotlight

So why not polish 'em all!

First it was Glenn Greenwald.

And now it's the Cyborg Sent From The Future To Destroy America.

Just taped a segment for ⁦@megynkelly⁩ podcast today. Both of us have moderated debates w/ ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩. Both of us have “Trump tattoos” as a result, she more than me. We agreed Chris W failed last night, went full opposition to @POTUS. https://t.co/6olpXIA0e8

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) September 30, 2020

This woman got paid a shit-ton of money to be the blonde Aryan fantasy object of every octogenarian bigot who watches Fox.

Then got paid another shit-ton to leave.

Then got paid another shit-ton to fail spectacularly on NBC.

Then got paid another shit-ton to leave there.

But despite her mountains of ill-gotten loot, she apparently has a "Pay!Attention!To!Me!" itch that only being in the limelight can scratch

So don't you worry, Jason Miller -- 

-- she'll get around to you sooner or later.

UPDATE:  Megyn "Quit squirming, open wide and take it like a woman" Kelly has not yet gotten around to buffing Jason Miller's trailer hitch, but she has come damn close.

Since I originally posted this on September 30,  guests on her godawful, "Please, please, please hire me back, Fox News!" podcast have included Dana Loesch, Adam Carolla (on cancel culture and his 'movie' "No Safe Spaces"), Ted Cruz and Ben Shapiro.

No Half Measures

Sunday Morning Comin' Down

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:

"Hugh Hewitt" is trending , what asshole had him on TV

.........................Oh Chuck Todd ........................never mind

— Dan Gman - Twi++er Jail Bird Human Scum Boomer (@DanGman4) June 28, 2020

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.

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

Hugh Hewitt Is Not Programmed to Respond in This Area

Looking forward to your discussion of Trump encouraging Xi to build concentration camps for the Uighurs as part of China’s genocidal campaign against them. I’m sure you’ll be renouncing your support of Trump over this heinous & unconscionable action. https://t.co/fUvyd7CTNs

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) June 18, 2020

As the Trump Administration goes full terminal Bluesmobile --

-- it will be interesting to see what tales of mystery and imagination Hugh Hewitt concocts to weasel his way out of being dragged down with it.  Especially given his fulsome and public support for You Know Who WaPo

John Bolton is a great addition to the White House

By Hugh Hewitt March 23 at 2:36 PM

The Beltway establishment has reacted with horror to President Trump’s appointment of John Bolton as national security adviser. Bolton, they claim, is a dangerous warmonger unfit for the office. That’s wrong. As the president’s top security aide, Bolton will be an honest broker and someone who can drive decisions through molasses-thick resistance. These qualities, plus his top-shelf intellect, make Bolton the best national security player to join Trump’s West Wing team so far...

Hugh Hewitt who, in addition to being a Cyborg Sent From The Future To Destroy America, remains a respected NBC contributor an who, up until about five minutes ago, had his own show on MSNBC.

No Half Measures

Meanwhile, Over in The Hughniverse...

...Babyface Christopath Abramoff explains to the Android Sent From The Future To Destroy America that Donald Trump is really Super Jesus and Republicanism should be our official state religion.

Up next: @ralphreed. His new book is out: https://t.co/xkTVAWszTk

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 9, 2020

And now, just for fun, for those of you who have not accepted the new establishment media dictate that history began in 2016, I invite you to take a quick trip with me back to April of 2013.  To an IntelligenceSquared debate on the proposition that "The GOP Must Seize the Center or Die" between Mickey Edwards and David Brooks (for the proposition) and Laura Ingraham and Ralph Reed (against the proposition.)

Back when Brooks and Edwards and Babyface Christopath Abramoff and Eva Braun-Nose were all such very good friends.  All Children of Reagan -- brothers and sisters of the movement and Conservatives 4 Life.

It was a long "debate" among these unsavory types and there is no reason in the world why you should watch it.

After all, that's why I'm here :-)

And my biggest takeaway then and now is that every one of these four leading Conservatives all knew damn well who really makes up the base of the Conservative Movement and the GOP.

Yes, it turns out the Movement's rank and file really are exactly the same wretched hive of scum and villainy that Liberals have been telling you about for decades and the Brain Caste of the Conservative movement has known it and been cool with it all along..  Sure they all danced around the ugly truth for awhile,  but eventually Mickey Edwards got to the point:

The Republican Party we have today could disappear and be replaced by a range of its little subsets, all these other -- a Christian right party, a libertarian party, a no government, no tax party, a gun owner's party, a no gays and no immigrants party, each one with its own small niche of true believers...

And that is the conversation we will never had and never will have at the national level.

That is the reason that it doesn't matter how many tea leaves and goat entrails and academic papers David Brooks pores excitedly over to predict his Awesome Whig Tomorrow.

Because you can't make bricks without straw, and you can't make a political movement without people.  And the plain, cold, ugly truth of the matter is that the Right is really nothing but the sum of its parts.

And all of its parts are grotesque.

No Half Measures

Android Sent From The Future To Destroy America Has Opinions

Remember five minutes ago when Hugh Hewitt was a Respected NBC Contributor who was gifted his own show on MSNBC because Murrica needed to to hear the voice of Serious Conservatives like him?

 Good times!

Up next: @SenTomCotton. Following successful demolition of the credibility of the @NYTimes and its exposure as the laughing stock of "journalism," I'll ask him which MSM organ he will target next for internal collapse.

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) June 9, 2020

Also Rick Wilson is stealing my stuff.  Again.

Leveraging diverse skill sets and a dynamic corporate culture to produce scalable, metrics-driven six-sigma outcomes for stakeholders with continuous improvement based on lean management models...oh and on slide 23 you’ll see I am an android sent from the future to kill you all. https://t.co/5qkVQNum5o

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 8, 2020

Can't wait for his next book, "From Dumpster Fires to Burning Lifeboats -- How I Saved The Country From Donald Trump and the Loony Left."

No Half Measures

Bloodless Conservative Cyborg Has Opinions

As you all know by now, Hugh Hewitt is a Republican Cyborg Sent from the Future to Destroy America.  This is a settled fact.

What we do not know are the specifics of his mission.  We do not know, in detail, what those last, few remaining Republicans in the future, holed up in their last stronghold in Galt's Gulch, programmed him to do.

However, based on his work-product to-date, I think it is safe to assume that it has something to do with covering the surface of the Earth with Hugh Hewitt Hot Takes so suffocatingly stupid that it lowers our collective IQ just enough for Republicans to hang onto power indefinitely.

For example, this was Mr. Hewitt's swaggeringly confident opinion just 48 hours before Joe Biden's remarkable performance on Super Tuesday:

Enjoy it, Joe Biden, because it won’t last

Former vice president Joe Biden handily won the South Carolina Democratic primary, but take a step back and the victory wasn’t nearly as promising as his campaign might like to believe. Biden took a victory lap on the Sunday-morning talk shows — he’s desperate to close the gap with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) quickly — but look beyond his self-congratulations. It’s not the win Biden needed.

What Biden had to have was a smashing repudiation of Sanders — not just of Sanders but of the entire field, dealing a crushing blow to the hopes of every other would-be nominee and prompting several to drop out. That didn’t happen...

Of course, being horribly wrong all the time does not affect Mr. Hewitt in the slightest because as a Republican Cyborg Sent from the Future to Destroy America he has no understanding of basic human emotions, nor does he understand how rudimentary human activities such as "the consumption of food" and states-of-being such as "mortality" work.

Instead he just chugs along, bloodlessly and heedless of normal human conventions, performing exactly the job that the Beltway media pays him to perform in exactly the way he has always performed it.

 I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, And Your Motorcycle.

Breaking: Senior Anonymous Beltway Media Persons Continue to Be Stunned That Republicans Are Republicans

This is Hugh Hewitt.

He is a Cyborg Sent From The Future who has been working assiduously (as cyborgs do) for a long, long time to destroy America.  This is a thing I have been writing about on this blog for years.

And then, one day, very suddenly, a Very Senior NBC Media Person noticed that Hugh Hewitt is "out of his fucking mind" and scampered over to the Daily Beast to Tell All.

What the Hell Happened to Hugh Hewitt?

“He’s lost his f*cking mind,” a senior MSNBC colleague told The Daily Beast, lamenting how the conservative intellectual has morphed into a Lou Dobbs-like booster of the president.

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Once an aide to Ronald Reagan and early supporter of Mitt Romney’s presidential ambitions, Hewitt has fallen in line with the rest of the conservative media ecosystem as a reliably Trumpian defender of the president’s bizarre and potentially criminal behavior—his popular radio show now fervently bashing Democrats and providing cover for Trump’s many ongoing scandals in a way that seemingly morphs Hewitt into an intellectualized version of Fox News stars like Sean Hannity or Dobbs...

The following clip from Family Guy exactly captures my reaction when yet another Senior, Highly-Paid Professional Media Person is shocked to "discover" something we on the Left have been blogging about for decades:

I Am Neither Hugh Hewitt Nor A Senior, Highly-Paid Professional Media Person.  
Hence The Tip Jar.

I Awake to Find Ron "America's Sad Clown of Both Siderism" Fournier In a Twitterbrawl With...

Taylor's testimony is unknown to me, and to you @ron_fournier. Leaked accounts are disputed. Neither you nor I know what he testified. This is why Star Chamber has such a bad reputation and why we don't do trials in secret. Don't abandon first principles to get @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/mHv7rz3mRz

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) October 23, 2019

...Hugh "The Cyborg Sent from the Future to Destroy America" Hewitt.

What us there to say but...

No, I Won't Be Going To Politicon!