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Edited on Sun Nov-18-07 08:09 PM by NanceGreggs
Good God, I hope not – because if you are, you’re wasting your breath.
I’m referring to those right-wing talkers – you know them. You see them on TV, you read their newspaper columns, you see them being quoted in the blogosphere.
But after just a few words, you hit the remote, turn the page, or move on to a more cogent website – knowing that their blathering is only meant for the brain-dead who, despite still seeming to be alive, are just too stupid to be considered thinking human beings.
If I had to pick a favorite talker, it would be Bill Kristol, PNACer extraordinaire, who still finds time between manicures to explain to us how invading Iraq has always been, and continues to be, a fantastic idea.
As is typical of his ilk, Billy doesn’t let facts get in his way any more now than he did when he and his buddies predicted sweets-‘n-flowers, a quickly-installed Iraqi democracy with all the fixin’s, and at least four Starbucks opening on George W. Bush Square in downtown Baghdad within six months of Shock ‘n Awe.
And yet the Kristols of the world still get trotted out on political talk shows, invariably asked to opine on what will happen next in Iraq, in view of the uncanny precision of their previous predictions.
It would seem apparent than anyone with a brain would give the PNACers as much credence as they would a TV weatherman who hasn’t gotten a single forecast right in his entire career – and yet they’re still talkin’.
In second place on my favorites list is Poppy Bush, who continually finds it necessary to show up in the public schoolyard to defend his erstwhile, ne’er-do-well son from the bullies out there who keep questioning junior’s honesty, integrity, mental stability, sobriety, ability to walk and chew gum at the same time, etc.
While you can’t help but admire a dad who’s willing to stand up for his kid, you also can’t help but think that if your kid was president of the United States, maybe – just maybe – he should be able to fight his own battles, what with having been a kept-Texas-safe-from-Charlie war hero and all. And yet, Poppy is still talkin’.
In the number three spot is, of course, the Bush administration itself, always willing to step up and answer the tough questions about the war, the economy, oil prices, wiretapping, torture, the politicization of the Department of Justice – you name it, they’ll talk about it.
Unfortunately, the answers are redacted due to national security concerns, executive privilege, gone-missin’ documents and communications – but other than that, you can literally ask them anything and get a straight answer. And that answer will always be, “Everything is goin’ GREAT – just trust us. Have we ever lied to you before?” Yuppers, when it comes to lying their asses off and expecting you to believe them, they just keep talkin’.
No list of blathering idiots would be complete without the political pundits, who take every opportunity to remind their audience (which, one can only assume, consists of the comatose) that they’re really likin’ the GOP’s chances of a big win in ’08. After all, how can you possibly lose with candidates like young go-getter Thompson, Mittens Romney and his Magic Underwear, and a former Mayor whose propensity for cross-dressing is bound to get those Fundie voters out in record numbers?
And then there’s the elected (and, in some cases, about-to-be-indicted) Republicans themselves, who just keep talkin’ about fiscal responsibility, moral rectitude, family values, and Victory in Iraq – obviously preaching to a choir that somehow hasn’t noticed the national debt, Foley-Craig-Allen-Cunningham-et-al, and the fact that their Feckless Leader has missed that corner-to-be-turned in Iraq so many times, the entire country is ready to launch a whiplash suit.
But they just keep talkin’, hoping to get their message out via the drug-addled, the forever-shrill, the ridiculous and the sublimely ridiculous like Limbaugh, Coulter, O’Reilly and Malkin.
They haven’t figured out yet that when you’re talkin’ about a great economy to people who are losing their jobs, their homes and their savings, they might not be listening.
They haven’t noticed that the mental picture of Vitter in a diaper isn’t going to be dispelled by a thousand words on Republican family values.
They haven’t figured out that for the majority of Americans, along with the majority of Iraqis, the only victory achievable at this point is U.S. soldiers heading home.
But they just keep talkin’. And the fact that fewer and fewer people are still listenin’ doesn’t dissuade them in the least.
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