Howard Fineman on Imus yesterday:
Like the President he venerates, I think Howard is getting sick of heaping the same old praiseful platitudes on the current Commander in Chief.
The signs are subtle...during yesterday's appearance on the Imus show he waxed long and loud about the confusing and contradictory aspects of the President's justifications for war.
The mark of a true media whore is that they suddenly sound forlorn and ineffectual when they start criticizing their usual objects of worship. This is because they are used to dumping on easily bullied targets that can't fight back. The punditariat gets nervous when the object of their derision has potent means of retaliation.
And Howard Fineman is no different, a craven frightened tone invaded his usual insufferably unctuous manner.
Indeed why not? There is no doubt a full time Karl Rover staffer whose job it is to transcribe and summarize the Imus Show on a daily basis.
Otherwise it was a classic performance characterized (as always) with at least one blatant intellectual howler of T.D. Lysenko-esque proportions.
I refer of course to Fineman's bizarre assertion that Bush's notion that political liberty is derived from god is a well documented concept traceable to the Declaration of Independence.
This is sheer nonsense.
More precisely it can be said that Bush's simpleminded view proclaims Jesus Christ armed republican and a sort of ex-officio RNC Chairdeity is the divine source of our current liberties.
THAT bearded bane of feminists and rap singers ain't got nothing to do with the deistic divine "Providence" that Tom Jefferson used to invoke.
I can promise you that if anyone ever read the Declaration of Independence to Bush his only response would be "what commie wrote that stuff?"
Sick
Demented
Typical