Today (Jan. 27) is the birthday of both Mozart and Lewis Carroll. I’m setting my iTunes now to celebrate. (Yes, I could celebrate Alice on iTunes, had I actually uploaded David del Tredici’s In Memory of a Summer’s Day, one of his several pieces based on the Alice books. It opens with sweeping strings and a wind machine, a thrilling effect.)
Have you ever noticed that a person who drives 35 mph in a 45 mph zone will maintain that speed when he hits the 25 mph school zone? From this we are allowed to conclude that such a person is senile or drunk or both.
The rightwing noise machine is in full roar:
- making up Congressional Budget Office reports
- making up Al Qaeda operatives released from Guantanamo (61 is the magic number, pulled from its ass by the Pentagon, and let us not forget the actual releasees are prisoners freed by the Previous Administration because it had completely botched their interrogation/imprisonment)
- stating flatly that terrorists are going to be let go in the middle of our fair country (we need to invest in companies that make rubber bedsheets and Depends, apparently)
- stating flatly that an extension of Medicaid benefits in these troubled times for the victims of the PA’s policies is nothing more than pork spending by Pelosi on contraceptives (because if you’ve lost your job, you should not be having sex!)
- stating flatly that the stimulus package won’t benefit anyone for years and years and years (despite an actual CBO report that says the opposite)
- and in trivial matters, comparing the cost of Bush’s last inauguration minus the cost of security to that of Obama’s plus the cost of security
There’s more, there always is, but it’s too wearisome. I am curious to see whether the public will fall for the terror!+egregious spending!!+people-not-like-you-and-me having sex!!!! smokescreens this time. I work with some who do so only too gladly, and the number of media people who parrot these lies without correction is very disturbing. Still, I have hope.
And does anyone else raise his eyebrows when he reads the new name of Grantville Elementary: Glanville?
My only criticism to your rant: the implication that the left of the aisle did anything less when they were the minority party. Fact: ALL of them are full of fertilizer.
Yes, now I remember the overwhelming flood of media repeating liberal talking points about the efforts of the Previous Administration to move this country forward.
If you’ve ever seen Kati Couric or Chris Matthews, I’m sure you have.
Chris Matthews? You’re joking, right? This Chris Matthews?
No, this Chris Matthews.
And for more news on the free speech front, read this. And yes, I know a petition is free speech too, which makes the irony all the richer.
Manufactured outrage? I’m shocked–SHOCKED (waronChristmasMoveOn.orglipstickonapigTerrySchiavo) that any political group would think that was appropriate.
Okay, now that I’m home and can actually pull up the YouTube link from comment #6…
Kevin, Kevin, Kevin. To rebut my proposition that Matthews will always mindlessly repeat conservative talking points, even false ones, you need to show him mindlessly repeating a false liberal one. A clip with him succumbing to his well-known Clinton Derangement Syndrome is not quite the ticket.