Nattering Nabobs of Neocon Nastiness

The neocons are in high dudgeon over the video of an American soldier shooting a wounded, unarmed Iraqi. While most of us take a second to say, "...what?", the machine revs into high gear.

O'Reilly no spins from the opening moments of his "Factor".

The loathsome Hannity chimes in an hour later.

The Washington Times. The Weekly Standard. The Wall Street Journal. All fall in line behind the talking points.

On the airwaves the Imperial loyalists join in a unison chant of castigation. Locally, the pardoned felon Roger Hedgecock and the despicable Rick Roberts continue to do the heavy lifting, (as we all know, this much bullshit does weigh a ton!).

Hedgecock, the former mayor who was run out of office in the wake of the J. David/Nancy Hoover scandal, appears in KOGO promo spots, enthusiastically giving his blessing to the atrocity, suggesting that perhaps we should give the soldier who did the shooting a parade through the streets of San Diego, where he would be greeted by over 100,000 supporters.

I doubt that the soldier in question would want to be honored for anything. He'd probably just want to be home for the holidays. Only the chicken hawks who beat the sabers of war from behind their corporate microphones get a thrill out of this sort of thing.

The repulsive Rick Roberts at KFMB, defecating over the morning drive time airways, drones on against the "far-left wacko liberal socialists", (never a mention of the "far right wacko authoritarian fascists", who, by the way, are the ones in power). He brands the journalist who happened to videotape the unfortunate event as "the worst kind of American", and proceeds through a litany of cheap, sarcastic comments that call into question the journalist's competence and professionalism. Roberts even ridicules any notion of courage that could be attributed to this embedded reporter,
while he, Roberts, sits safely behind a microphone. What an asshole.

Both of these jerk-offs are the voice of "Bush Country"; where fighter jets over Miramar are the "Sound of Freedom" ; where "liberals" are the moral equivalent of rapists, murderers and child molesters, and all that is wrong in this world, and where Republicans are the embodiment of all that is good, moral, and strong.

These idiots are a small part of the media network that spews its intellectual crap over the national airwaves every day. It's ironic that the overworked and underpaid middle-class, stuck in gridlock for hours, tunes in ("conservative" talk radio is on all day), and actually begins to buy into the message of victimization and alienation that is delivered by these lunatics.

Many of us are still wondering how in the world Bush got re-elected. Listen to talk radio and watch cable media. While the “conservatives” continue to “work the refs” the progressive center sits on it’s collective ass and does nothing. Al Franken ain't gonna do it.

Tune in. Listen to the chatter. Like a virulent mold, it should make you sick.

What in the....?

All aboard the "Minnow". Or is it the "Pequod"?

I'm still stunned. Two weeks and it's not yet in focus.

What a script. A feckless ne'er-do-well buys his way into national prominence and steals his way into the White House. In his four-year term he proceeds to invade a sovereign nation that had done us no harm, inflicting thousands of casualties and costing billions, as well as alienating most of the free world, of which he is supposed to be the de facto "leader".

He increases the national debt burden to staggering proportions. His tenure coincides with the biggest loss of jobs since the Hoover administration, an increase in poverty rates, and a widening gap between the rich and the poor.

He quietly and systematically guts over thirty years of environmental regulations and safeguards.

At least half of the electorate feels that the nation is headed in the wrong direction. By any standard his is a failed presidency.

What to do?

Re-elect him! Give him four more years! Four more years!

That the folks of Ohio would be the ones to put Bush over the top is the ultimate in bitter irony. The manufacturing base that has been nuked in the last four years would be enough, you would think, for most clear thinking Buckeyes to throw the bum out of office. However, he evidently scored major points with his cynical stance on gay marriage and abortion rights . After all, who cares about jobs when you're surrounded by homos, dykes and butchered babies?

The odd thing is that the average Buckeye has probably never seen, or will ever see, a gay or a lesbian, let alone two. They most likely don't know, or will ever know, someone who has had an abortion.

Yet, they voted to "stay the course".

The course? Pre-emptive war, crippling debt, rampant unemployment, shrinking wages, unattainable health care, a lethal environment, codified discrimination, and an increasingly polarized citizenry. That is the course set for this ship of state and Gilligan, unfortunately, is firmly at the helm for the next four years.

But, unlike the benign dunce of the TV show, this dunce masks a lethal reality--a seething and relentless Ahab, who armed with a perversely perceived "mandate", and a Biblical sense of self-righteous destiny, as well as both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, is determined to steer the nation into deeper and darker waters that neither he, nor his divided crew, may be able to successfully navigate.