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I found some good stuff in The Talent Show's comments about a particularly juicy Crossfire clip where Novakula has the unmitigated gall to declare
I know how emotional and relentless and mindless is the hatred directed against George W. Bush. |
These are the little spins that the neocons use to frame the debate. For almost twelve long years now (since he won the nomination at the 92 convention), the wrongwingnuts who have hijacked the Republic Party have engaged in a relentless, emotional, ruthless crusade against the ClenisTM, mindfully spiteful of the rules of civilized politics. As one of the torchbearers in that crusade, Novakula knows full well what he does when he tosses this little stiletto into the fight. And it deflects opponents from calling the Republics on their emotional, relentlessly spiteful hatred of all things Democratic.
But, I'm not writing this to talk about that. Or Greg's lovely slicing up of the bully getting called on his kimchee.
I will mention another piece of particularly stinky bile that Novak palms off in the intro to the Crossfire show in question to try and reframe the question that Begala brings up:
[emphasis of every type courtesy of the Funny Farm Editorial Staff]
ANNOUNCER: Live from the George Washington University, Paul Begala and Robert Novak.
(APPLAUSE) ROBERT NOVAK, CO-HOST: Welcome to CROSSFIRE and the start of a Fourth of July weekend. Believe it or not, we're just four months away from Election Day, four months away from renewing President Bush's lease on the White House and continuing America's economic recovery. (APPLAUSE) PAUL BEGALA, CO-HOST: Well, actually, Bob, just four months today, on November 2, America will declare its independence from King George the Appointed and replace him with a real New England patriot, my man John Kerry. (APPLAUSE) BEGALA: But first, let's fire up the Fourth of July grill with the best little political briefing in television, our CROSSFIRE "Political Alert." The Labor Department announced today that job growth has slowed dramatically. The American economy added just 112,000 jobs last month. Now, 112,000 people is a good number, say, if you're talking about attendance at a University of Texas football game. But in a country with over eight million people unemployed, 112,000 is what my daddy would call spitting in the ocean. He actually didn't say "spitting." He would use a different word, but it's a family show. (APPLAUSE) BEGALA: President Bush, though, insisted today that the economy is "strong and getting stronger." No wonder so many Americans think our president is out of touch. We are losing our high-paying jobs, but Mr. Bush praises the outsourcing of jobs. Healthcare costs are up 43 percent, but Mr. Bush has no plan to control costs. And there are 1.1 million fewer Americans working today than were working on the day Mr. Bush was installed by the Supreme Court. Perhaps it is time for George W. Bush to experience the joys of looking for a new job. (APPLAUSE) NOVAK: Seems to me I've heard that song before. You know, Paul, you and the other compatriots in the Clinton gang, in 1992, convinced the American people that they were worse off than they really were. I don't think you can fool them twice, because things are getting better. I know you -- you rich people don't do it, but you ought to go to one of these franchise places and stand in line. (BELL RINGING) |
but just in passing, as it were*. No, I was compelled to write this so I can show you this comment:
Limbaugh, Savage, and a multitude of right wing propogandists sing from the same hymnbook, and the most vicious of them say what they want, Limbaugh packages it, and Novak just refers to it so he looks genteel. It won't change until Americans realize the entire Reagan-Bush-Bush II feel-good campaign is an ongoing criminal conspiracy against their own interests and decide to either participate in their own supposed democracy and enforce its precepts or eat the dren** that Novak, Safire, Krauthammer, et al., ad nauseum, are more than willing to feed them.
posted by: bigfoot at July 2, 2004 11:56 PM |
The Funny Farm salutes the wisdom of bigfoot's comment, and encourages you to grok it in all its fullness.
* - the class is left to its own devices to come up with an object lesson in political jujistsu which can be applied to Novakula's fat @$$ at a convenient time in the near future.
** - comment slightly edited by the Funny Farm. We try to avoid potty-mouth within these pages... or at least make it creative when we seem to be forced to use profanity. That way it may confuse the automagic mechanisms...
Posted by (: Tom :) at July 5, 2004 07:00 AM