Daily Kos Week in Review: The Stupid Shock-Jock Party
Four years ago, Democrats had just begun what would become several months of fierce infighting to determine their 2008 nominee. Barack! Hillary! Fairy tales! 3 a.m. phone calls! PUMAs! These days, with President Obama getting what amounts to a first-round bye, the left, including the Daily Kos gang, is free to train its fire on Republicans and their presidential candidates.
As usual, each headline is preceded by the blogger's name or pseudonym.
Hunter: The GOP is trying to win by attrition
...The [GOP's] plot is to make primary season so stupid—and I don't mean normal, political stupid, I mean Toddlers and Tiaras stupid—that only stupid people can bear to watch any of it. Then, when the elections finally roll around, only stupid people will have survived the process. The only people left standing to vote will be people who take Donald Trump seriously, or think Michele Bachmann is a foreign policy genius, or who don't understand that Newt Gingrich looks on them less as fellow citizens than as a source of cheap potential food...
Seneca Doane: Gingrich = Limbaugh
...[Obama vs. Gingrich would be] the most honest election possible, between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party as they are right now...
...[B]eing a "not-Romney"...means, in essence, exemplifying what Republican[s] really most want in a leader: to be a shock jock. That's right, the AM radio and Fox News blowhard is what Republicans have been fed for the past few decades, and like the big shark of Jaws, it is what they have loved to crave. The quintessential Republican this year is that one who can insult the Democrats the best and make the electorate feel the best about themselves...
...Republicans -- to my mind, at some level realizing that they can't win a debate about competence and effectiveness -- just want someone who can throw a vicious punch and then snarl over their staggering opponent like a pro wrestler...
Hunter: Santorum is desperate but not serious
It's difficult to take Rick Santorum seriously. It always has been, and adding "campaigning for president" to his resume did nothing to help. The man has no gravitas and even less charisma, but comports himself as if he did. The effect is of a whiny adolescent know-it-all who is eternally peeved that society isn't recognizing his obvious superiority. Add to this a devout narrow-mindedness, a stubborn refusal to even acknowledge others might have opinions or experiences different from his own, and you get the perfect Conservative Religious Whiny Emo Teenage Mutant Candidate...
chaunceydevega: Cain was expendable
...Cain was a fantasy projection and type of racism shield, an Anti-Obama, who could soothe the anxieties of racially resentful white conservatives...[I]t was, in many ways, a genius performance. He was Sarah Palin mated with the Boondocks...
Herman Cain...combined the worst aspects of Tyler Perry's various TV and film exercises in black buffoonery, the denigrating humor of Amos N' Andy, and the tropes of 19th century race minstrelsy into one show...
...Sadly for Herman Cain, just as Michael Steele and other black conservatives learned long ago, the love and affection of the White Right is instrumental, and the devotion to their mascots is temporary, with a limited shelf-life...
Hunter: Children's entertainment isn't cruel enough for conservatives
...I can't figure out why conservatives let their children watch any television or see any movies, ever. Ever. The entire children's entertainment industry is geared towards teaching conspicuously anti-conservative messages like "caring for others." Everything's all about sharing, and learning lessons, and tolerance towards people who are different. You almost never see children's shows centered around the Randian doctrines of screw-everybody-and-take-their-money (that's left for the advertisers)...
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A couple of laughs
Submitted by wingnut55 on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 11:46pm.
I couldn't help laughing out loud when I read the statement by Seneca Doane talking about competence and effectiveness. I'm sure he wasn't referring to President Obama with those two words. He came into the office as the most incompetent President ever elected. His effectiveness, well he had control of both houses of congress and still couldn't get anything passed, like a national budget. Then, chaunceydevega comment about the denigrating humor of Amos N' Andy shows that he has never seen the TV show or heard the radio show. If he had he would have realized that the men and women on that show were given rolls of Doctors, Lawyers, Business men Andy was a devoted father and husband. He had a sincere faith that was on display and a small business man. In other word they were conservatives and that is why it was taken off the air. The Liberals in the media at that time just couldn't stand that.
Lest they forget their own shockjocks...
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 12/11/2011 - 11:48pm.
...none of which command even 1/2 the audience of the conservative talk radio shows:
-Randi Rhodes - the one who made up the story about being attacked (like Morton Downey Jr.)
-Mike Malloy - sounds like a ranting, raving paranoid schizophrenic anti-Semite on a drug holiday
-Fat Ed - 'nuff said about that hypocrite with the private plane and Canadian hunting cabin - while moaning about business taxes
-Thom Hartmann - hypocrite multimillionaire former psychotherapist (wonder why psychiatrists don't trust 'em?) loudmouth
-Bill Press - reigning King of the Has-Beens whose appearance is too close to the mummy of Rameses II
-Stephanie Miller - failed game show host turned radio commentator who babbles like her Ritalin dose is too high
-Last but not least: N. P. R. - the network of choice for regressive, devolving degenerates like Nina Totenberg
Libs are so wonderful.
Submitted by ant on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 12:59am.
"..sharing, learning lessons, and tolerance toward people who are different.." Seriously? Sharing? Is that what all those crimes at OWS were, lessons in sharing without asking? I haven't had anything shared with me from the coffers of multi-millionaires like Moore, Pelosi, Obama, Kerry, Sharpton..The only thing liberals like to share are violence, regulations, laws (for some), national sovereignty and stupidity. Got news for you lib twerps, BTW, when someone, even a big, bad corporation gives you a job, that can be considered sharing.
"Learning lessons"? From the side that wants to appease the alligator known as Islam, the side that wants to try communism 'just one more time', the side that wants to re-elect the most disastrous, incompetent Marxist President in history. Puh-lease..
And 'tolerance'? That's just a dirty word designed to shut people up and shame whites. Tolerance for who? Conservatives, Christians? They're different from libs but I see no tolerance afforded them.
What is wrong with these
Submitted by amyshulk on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 5:32am.
What is wrong with these people?
The "Cain - projection" diatribe, here the author reveals the reason we have Obama - so called R's who voted for him did it to allay their own guilt.
The upshot I got from these was truth to power only works for D's against *all* of us who don't have a dog in the fight. So Cain speaking what he knows/feels is pandering, but obvious pandering {Pipeline comes to mind} is accepted as mere politics.
Gah, Newt may make my skin crawl, and he is the furthest thing from a TP'er, but if we get in the TP'ers down ticket, and they learn to make Newt think he thought of it, we will get somewhere!!!
Ronald Reagan
kos kids faux intellectuals
Submitted by Andrew H. on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 6:19am.
confident in their superior intelleigence, superior in their grasp of issues, candidates, all inside an umbrella of speech confined to the politically correct, they prove again and again, they know little. Constitutionality is foriegn to them, morality is--what's that?--to them, for they have none, and so it goes for these little minds to pine for socialism and every ill that brings to a nation.
But the results are never their fault we know. These self made idiots have no sense of responsiibilty and since they rely on no moral compass, the lie passes for for truth in their world. Group think "think" tank, the land of kos.
The so-called mainstream media is the propaganda arm of the criminal DNC.
They are the definition of "narcissism"
Submitted by scottyusmc on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 7:38am.
These narcissists can only survive in their own little protected world where they can mutually support each other’s need for validation and admiration. None can stand the light of an open society and difference of opinion that challenges their own beliefs. Not one of them can go 100 words in defending a progressive position without first personally denigrating the human value of anyone disagreeing with them.