Ah, hypocrisy makes me giggle.
Mar. 30th, 2010 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI was listening to the radio this morning, flipping through the channels. The Glenn Beck fit-in while Beck is getting therapy away on vacation was kinda boring, repeating the talking points from Glennbeckistan without much emphasis or emotion, Stephanie Miller was doing Hollywood-like entertainment-- even more boring-- and down at the bottom of the dial the "other" conservative channel's host, Brian Suits (who's on opposite Glenn Beck, so you can see how much faith his corporate masters have in his ability to draw an audience) was talking about President Obama's reaction to the Tea Party.
And the president said some pretty reasonable things. In the sound clip, he basically said that there was a core of folks who never believed that he was a legitimate president, that he was a socialist or a muslim or not born in the United States, and these people all coalesced into the Tea Party, which has also attracted a lot of people who are legitimately concerned with the big moves the government made over the past twelve months, rescuing the banks and the auto companies and changing the rules on health care.
He also said he hoped, by the end of his first term, that the people with real concerns would see that his administration was addressing those concerns, and that by the time 2012 rolled around the Tea Party would be back to those people who would never accept him.
And Suits went off on a rant about "That's how Obama sees us, and if we all just give him time we'll all see that he means well and the Tea Party will peter out and all that'll be left is the racist nutballs."
Well, yes. But then Suits continued in the same breath that the opposite would happen: that the Tea Party would grow because more and more people would come to understand that Obama's "coronation" was not and could never be legitimate.
Suits is basically toe the line, "The Right, right or wrong," and maintaining the idea that a Democratic victory is, by definition, illegitimate.
He goes on to expound on it by saying, in a later segment, that he's okay with Michael Steele spending $2000 at a strip club in LA. "I know some people want to apply a moral standard to the Republican party, but I'm more flexible than that. If some fat-cat donor is ready to write a big check to your party or, you know, your candidate, but he has to go to some club and see two lesbians doing it before that happens, I'm okay with that."
I'm glad to hear "two lesbians doing it" falls under the rubric of preserving our values.
At least it made the commute entertaining.
(By the way, has anyone else noticed that Glenn Beck was totally been pulling a "the lurkers support me in email!" line all last week, touting people who "were once liberal, but who have been radicalized by their reaction to this president's overreach," throwing out lists of names, but never once getting one of those people to come onto his show? And if he did, wouldn't you suspect him of pulling a Bob Larson?.)
And the president said some pretty reasonable things. In the sound clip, he basically said that there was a core of folks who never believed that he was a legitimate president, that he was a socialist or a muslim or not born in the United States, and these people all coalesced into the Tea Party, which has also attracted a lot of people who are legitimately concerned with the big moves the government made over the past twelve months, rescuing the banks and the auto companies and changing the rules on health care.
He also said he hoped, by the end of his first term, that the people with real concerns would see that his administration was addressing those concerns, and that by the time 2012 rolled around the Tea Party would be back to those people who would never accept him.
And Suits went off on a rant about "That's how Obama sees us, and if we all just give him time we'll all see that he means well and the Tea Party will peter out and all that'll be left is the racist nutballs."
Well, yes. But then Suits continued in the same breath that the opposite would happen: that the Tea Party would grow because more and more people would come to understand that Obama's "coronation" was not and could never be legitimate.
Suits is basically toe the line, "The Right, right or wrong," and maintaining the idea that a Democratic victory is, by definition, illegitimate.
He goes on to expound on it by saying, in a later segment, that he's okay with Michael Steele spending $2000 at a strip club in LA. "I know some people want to apply a moral standard to the Republican party, but I'm more flexible than that. If some fat-cat donor is ready to write a big check to your party or, you know, your candidate, but he has to go to some club and see two lesbians doing it before that happens, I'm okay with that."
I'm glad to hear "two lesbians doing it" falls under the rubric of preserving our values.
At least it made the commute entertaining.
(By the way, has anyone else noticed that Glenn Beck was totally been pulling a "the lurkers support me in email!" line all last week, touting people who "were once liberal, but who have been radicalized by their reaction to this president's overreach," throwing out lists of names, but never once getting one of those people to come onto his show? And if he did, wouldn't you suspect him of pulling a Bob Larson?.)
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Date: 2010-03-30 09:36 pm (UTC)Fixed that for him.
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