Crotch lice, premasticated news and the Wisdom of Fred Barnes

[Coexist]

Jane Hamscher put a huge smile on my face with her prose:

I know it is serving the purposes of Robert Novak, Rush Limbaugh and Rahm Emanuel to paint this as a victory for conservatives who don't exist, but I can only hope that as time goes on the wingnuts who place all their hopes in Rahm's illusory candidates have their little parades rained on.

It might take a while for journalists who like to have their stories pre-chewed by crack teams of DC establishment PR flacks to catch on, but this "triumph of the centrists" meme is a Rahm Emanuel spittle-soaked fantasy. The country ran from conservatives like a bad case of crotch lice and no amount of PR spin can re-write that.

Love her or not, agree or disagree, you have to appreciate the style.

This quote from Barnes preceded it:

But you have to give Rahm Emanuel, the House Democratic campaign chief, credit for recruiting an impressive group of candidates, including a few non-liberals like Brad Ellsworth in Indiana and Heath Shuler in North Carolina. The media, however, is exaggerating the number of these unconventional Democrats. They are a handful, and the pattern of moderate and conservative Democrats when they get to Washington is to pipe down.

Yes, it makes more sense to have the quote come first, but sometimes its okay to have your dessert first!

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

1. Your subject line is also priceless!

:D

[indepat]

2. Damn, so it's been the crotch lice

:rofl:

[acmejack]

3. Wisdom & Fred Barnes piqued my interest

They have so little in common.

[Coexist]

4. that was actually the title of the article.