Remember when there really was a political left wing in America, before thirty years of reactionary
Republicans dragged the Overton Window far to the right?
Remember when Dennis Miller was funny, before he took a hit off of George Bush's power pipe
during a trip on Air Force One, shed his libertarian skin, and boarded the conservative gravy train?
Then I have a blog for you!
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/The Driftglass blog is written by an unabashed liberal, AKA a Dirty Fucking Hippy (DFH) who
skewers conservatives, the corrupt political media, and "both sides do it" apologists with
intelligent literary allusions, humor, and clever writing. The comments are well worth reading
and often equally as perspicacious. Below is a sample of some of the bon mots from recent
weeks:
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Yes, America's most famous intercontinental chaser of tail and office abandoner, Mark Sanford, will be on CNN's "State of the Union" to explain why inbred South Carolina Republican hill folk will forgive literally anything a wingnut politician does so long as he promises to love Jebus, hate the Kenyan Usurper and use a condom if he's gonna take the goat around back for a quick round of "Firing on Fort Sumter".
And finally, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to be hit in the head with a power drill and a pillowcase full of lard at the same time. be sure to tune in to "Fox News Sunday" to hear Karl Rove and Laura Ingraham lie to you across a whole range of unpleasant audio frequencies.
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The Party of Lincoln died long, long ago. Nixon strapped it to the gurney, Reagan administered the lethal injection and you and every other Conservative parasite here in the Home of the Free have been picnicking on its corpse for decades.
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Oh, and the Republicans lost the right to invoke Lincoln when they became the party of Confederate-flag fetishists. Their ability to overlook the irony of this is stunningly myopic even for them.
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Not for nothing, but about a year later in 1970, Nixon's Executive Producer for Media came up with a 15-page plan to combat those "Nattering Nabobs" of Liberal Media. It was titled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” and is in the Nixon Library in San Clemente. Among the reasons given for the presumed success if there ever was a GOP TV: "People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.”
That Nixon staffer was none other than Roger Ailes, who went on to do precisely what he said. He just called it Fox News instead of GOP TV. Of course, other members of the media couldn't DARE call out Fox News for its Republican/conservative bias. Even though its in writing by its fucking founder/president 46 years ago and in a Presidential Library.
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[comment regarding David Brooks' musing that he needed to get out of the Acela Corridor and get in touch with the Real America]
We were somewhere around Silver Spring on the edge of the wilderness when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. ..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge orange Donald Trumps, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about 100 miles an hour with the top down to West Virginia. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! Who nominated these goddamn animals?"
David Brooks, Fear and Loathing in Real America
