Still Getting Prepared To Fight An Imaginary GOP
More "reality" based politics from the DK: The GOP's 800 Pound Gorilla
Being a science writer, I can't help but gravitate toward scientific metaphors. [ed. Astonishingly, this was not meant ironically.] So imagine for a second if two famous primate experts were interviewed for a nature program while an 800 pound gorilla tore the studio apart in the background. And in the midst of that chaos, the scientists avoided any mention of gorillas, while Calmly and Seriously discussing the theoretical danger posed by bunny rabbits. [ed. See that devastatingly on target "scientific metaphor"? Me neither.]
Something like that happened last weekend: NBC News "chief" Tim Russert interviewed two leading 'conservative intellectuals,' Andrew Sullivan author of The Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back, and Christopher Hitchens who wrote God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. [ed. That's right, because when I think of "conservatives" I think of someone who is left of Jimmy Carter (Sullivan), or of someone who is so militant he thinks Mother Theresa is the moral equivalent of a Nazi war criminal (Hitchens).] Both guests have been incessantly congratulated for, as the title of their books indicate, their admirable courage in transcending previously defined conservative boundaries and confronting the pernicious influence fringe ideologues and religious fundamentalists exert on the conservative movement. [ed. In other words, they were praised for calling themselves what they obviously are not. Since when is fraud courageous?]
Amazingly, during an hour long show, I can't recall either ‘critic’ or host raising a single question or making one comment concerning the stranglehold the religious right has on the modern Republican Party. [ed. As witnessed by the way Mike Huckabee swept all before him to claim the nomination!] Just for example, there was not one word spoken about conservative foreign cult figure Sun-myung Moon, his ownership of the Washington Times, its sister publication Insight which published the false story that Obama attended a hard-line militant Madrassa as a child, or any of the dozens of other scandalous connections joining ultra right wing religious icons — some of whom who routinely concoct wild and ugly religious fabrications — irrevocably to the Republican Party. The fact that McCain political adviser Charlie Black organized a coronation where Moon was literally crowned the Messiah in a US Senate building, and duped two US lawmakers into not just attending, but physically placing a crown on Mister and Mrs. Messiah's head did not rise to the attention of Russert or his guests. [ed. Gee, Russert didn't want to devote time to presenting a charge that McCain is a closet Moonie? Sounds like a conspiracy to me! Somebody get Dan Rather, stat.]
I believe I'm beginning to catch a whiff of desperation in the air. Can outright panic be far behind?
Left Wing | Rich Horton Monday, 14 April , 2008
By Uncle Fester, Monday, 14 April , 2008 @ 2:42 pm
Well, as a member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and the Religious Right, I have to say that I’m starting to get pretty frustrated with the Republican Party for ignoring my orders.
Obviously, Master Rove and I need to have a little talk.
By Bleepless, Monday, 14 April , 2008 @ 3:13 pm
Hitchens also thinks that Henry Kissinger is a war criminal.
By Mwalimu Daudi, Monday, 14 April , 2008 @ 7:03 pm
I think that Horton is right, but I’m just a typical white person….
By the way - what type of "science" is the Kossack yammering about? Global warmi-, er, climate change? Phrenology? Astrology? Evolution? Race science? 9/11 Trutherism? The mind boggles!