MCAStoff
The Boston Sunday Globe reported yesterday that the Kolobian Viceroy’s plan to link free tuition at a state college to High School kids who pass the MCAS with high scores has lead to a rash of Umass scholarships running amok in wealthy communities like Newton and Wellesley.
Any damn fool could’ve told the governor that when the state legislature's noted pedagogues writes a test for the whole Commonwealth to take, the likely soul determinant of success will be SES and only SES.
Meaning that wealthy towns with good schools will do well whilst Brockton and Lynn go a beggin’.
This is just the sort of dipshit incentive plan that a naïve CEO would dream up…give the salesmen who produce a prize to fight over and the like, strictly Donald Trump stuff by way of “The Apprentice”.
It is this sort of “Dairy Queen” style thinking that is destroying the Commonwealth quite frankly.
Romney is such a perfect modern reactionary socialist that even when he wants to route some goodies to the poor house he ends up enriching the upper classes.
Not that Mitt cares or anything, his reaction to news that his schemes aren’t working to brand the critics “enemies of reform”.
Or so he bleats in those interminable high school appearances he makes shilling for the MCAS and pretending like he gives two hoots in hell about the youth of Massachusetts.
The Man from Kolob's real message for today's kids is stark and simple; Pass the MCAS, get a good job as a toady at Bain Capital Gruppe, and in ten ot twenty years you will save up enough for a cardboard-lined shithole on South Policy Street in Salem New Hampshire.
If you manage your systemic indebtedness well, you can watch "Animal Planet" on cable whilst your surly teenaged children are driven retarded by standardized testing.
And hell that is the good news.....
Ghod forbid Romney should get off his boney ass for two minutes to make a few minor changes in a scholarship program.
Ego, that is gonna be Mitt Romney’s downfall…maybe not now or even in the near term but someday…and trust me it will be a bad fall when it comes.
Massachusetts has a lot of suburban independent voters and Romney slavishly kowtows to these poor worthies. He should remember one thing though, independent voters tend to treat politicians as disposable commodities…easily replaced with some other truckling wheedling jack-off when the time comes.
If I were him, I'd fix the damn MCAS scholarships and move on...butt hat would necessitate admitting that a mistake was made and Romney's dumb-ass pride won't allow that.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Monday, March 08, 2004
Another country heard from…
Mike Barnicle that swaggering beer swilling average Joe from the rugged hills-n-hollers of Lincoln Massachusetts is getting a columnist’s berth at the Boston Herald ere’ long.
Or so we read in today's Metro section of the Boston Globe.
Oh that is just what we need, another spineless faux populist up here in romantic Boston.
Well, Mike has been on a journey since he was fired from the Globe all those years ago.
It is not been a particularly original journey having cleaved ever farther to right from dependable critic of the Clinton aufklarung to groveling Bush apologist.
And despite being tossed off the Globe’s Metro section Mike has retained a sinecure at the New York Daily News and a lucrative local talk radio gig.
So clearly drifting rightward pays.
And lets face it, Mike is angry…you just know in his class-hatred sodden soul Mike thinks politically correct “swells –n-toffs” were responsible for his banishment from Morrissey Boulevard.
If only the editors at the Globe were burlap heavin’, bib overall wearin’, he-men like Mike, they’d a turned a blind eye to his mawkish fabrications and ordered up another round of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Or so goes the columnist’s logic when things get all quiet and subtle-like out in the gazebo.
Besides, becoming a “liberal” whose outrage is only directed against other liberals is the only way to go at the Herald…so look for Mike to turn on his “pal” John Kerry at some point.
Oh course, back in 1998 the Herald couldn't get enough of Mike's problems at the Globe, they covered the story in triumphant detail...the powers that be dismissed Mike as one who could never get hired at the Herald because he "didn't meet their standards".
Oh what a difference a mere six years makes...the Herald lowers the bar and Mike obligingly hards-a-starboard.
Speaking of standards though, the Herald is a paper dedicated to an entirely laughable notion of priggish 19th century morality yoked to a loud unsubtle editorial style. The op ed pages are full of homophobes like Howie Carr and creepy snitches like Robert Novak.
Yet for all this “Watch and Ward Society” bullshit, the Herald still takes advertising from x-rated videostores and the various adult retail outlets that dot Boston’s suburbs.
So given this level of build-in hypocrisy, a tawdry sentimental plagiarist like should feel right at home.
So get crackin’ Mike, churn out some so lugubrious copy about “Big Joe” sittin’ on his stoop in Roxbury dickin’ on the state lege for “foolin around wit’ gay marriage” when we don’t have enuff cops round’ here”….crap like that is like falling off a log for you by now.
Mike Barnicle that swaggering beer swilling average Joe from the rugged hills-n-hollers of Lincoln Massachusetts is getting a columnist’s berth at the Boston Herald ere’ long.
Or so we read in today's Metro section of the Boston Globe.
Oh that is just what we need, another spineless faux populist up here in romantic Boston.
Well, Mike has been on a journey since he was fired from the Globe all those years ago.
It is not been a particularly original journey having cleaved ever farther to right from dependable critic of the Clinton aufklarung to groveling Bush apologist.
And despite being tossed off the Globe’s Metro section Mike has retained a sinecure at the New York Daily News and a lucrative local talk radio gig.
So clearly drifting rightward pays.
And lets face it, Mike is angry…you just know in his class-hatred sodden soul Mike thinks politically correct “swells –n-toffs” were responsible for his banishment from Morrissey Boulevard.
If only the editors at the Globe were burlap heavin’, bib overall wearin’, he-men like Mike, they’d a turned a blind eye to his mawkish fabrications and ordered up another round of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Or so goes the columnist’s logic when things get all quiet and subtle-like out in the gazebo.
Besides, becoming a “liberal” whose outrage is only directed against other liberals is the only way to go at the Herald…so look for Mike to turn on his “pal” John Kerry at some point.
Oh course, back in 1998 the Herald couldn't get enough of Mike's problems at the Globe, they covered the story in triumphant detail...the powers that be dismissed Mike as one who could never get hired at the Herald because he "didn't meet their standards".
Oh what a difference a mere six years makes...the Herald lowers the bar and Mike obligingly hards-a-starboard.
Speaking of standards though, the Herald is a paper dedicated to an entirely laughable notion of priggish 19th century morality yoked to a loud unsubtle editorial style. The op ed pages are full of homophobes like Howie Carr and creepy snitches like Robert Novak.
Yet for all this “Watch and Ward Society” bullshit, the Herald still takes advertising from x-rated videostores and the various adult retail outlets that dot Boston’s suburbs.
So given this level of build-in hypocrisy, a tawdry sentimental plagiarist like should feel right at home.
So get crackin’ Mike, churn out some so lugubrious copy about “Big Joe” sittin’ on his stoop in Roxbury dickin’ on the state lege for “foolin around wit’ gay marriage” when we don’t have enuff cops round’ here”….crap like that is like falling off a log for you by now.
Friday, March 05, 2004
Image politics
So everyone is up in arms about Bush's use of 9-11 pics in his current round of campaign commercials.
And this is surprising exactly why?
George Bush Jr. is of a famously shameless generation and a descendent of a family famously dedicated to winning at any cost.
From the moment the second tower fell in New York City I knew that horrific scene or it's aftermath would be replayed some three years hence in a Bush-Cheney re-election advert.
Nothing this gang does surprises me anymore, absolutely nothing.
They are a craven insolent bunch....sheer ego and opportunism have fatally combined to give us George Bush Jr. as President, a dull vengeful little creep entirely bereft of ideas, man who claims heroism on the basis of other people's sacrifices.
I think it's fine if the firemen (those stalwart Kerry supporters) protest...if enough noise gets made maybe people will start asking just what was GWB doing flying around the nation pell-mell whilst New York Burned...?
But please gentle readers, forget about outrage that reaction presupposes your opponent is capable of rueful self reflection.
This sort of thing is derided as a laughable confession of weakness in Bushworld.
The Bush Admin and it's apologist are beyond mere shame or that wasted wan vice called hypocrisy...they have moved on en masse to full out royalism that asserts brazenly the leader may what he wishes when he wishes.
No doubt today's chorus will only encourage the President and his handlers to even more blatant use of 9-11 imagery.
Count on it.
All this goes back to the Florida recount in my opinion, when you win ugly, you develop an ugly theory of governance.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
So everyone is up in arms about Bush's use of 9-11 pics in his current round of campaign commercials.
And this is surprising exactly why?
George Bush Jr. is of a famously shameless generation and a descendent of a family famously dedicated to winning at any cost.
From the moment the second tower fell in New York City I knew that horrific scene or it's aftermath would be replayed some three years hence in a Bush-Cheney re-election advert.
Nothing this gang does surprises me anymore, absolutely nothing.
They are a craven insolent bunch....sheer ego and opportunism have fatally combined to give us George Bush Jr. as President, a dull vengeful little creep entirely bereft of ideas, man who claims heroism on the basis of other people's sacrifices.
I think it's fine if the firemen (those stalwart Kerry supporters) protest...if enough noise gets made maybe people will start asking just what was GWB doing flying around the nation pell-mell whilst New York Burned...?
But please gentle readers, forget about outrage that reaction presupposes your opponent is capable of rueful self reflection.
This sort of thing is derided as a laughable confession of weakness in Bushworld.
The Bush Admin and it's apologist are beyond mere shame or that wasted wan vice called hypocrisy...they have moved on en masse to full out royalism that asserts brazenly the leader may what he wishes when he wishes.
No doubt today's chorus will only encourage the President and his handlers to even more blatant use of 9-11 imagery.
Count on it.
All this goes back to the Florida recount in my opinion, when you win ugly, you develop an ugly theory of governance.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Thursday, March 04, 2004
Howard's Endgame.
So Howard Stern got thrown off Clear Channel and claims it is because he has turned against President Bush.
Could happen, I ain't one to judge.
It is just plain weird though, to hear a voice from out my car radio denouncing President Bush in the most strident terms the law will allow-frankly I'm not sure how to handle the situation.
There is an irony at work here, for years now Howard has been one of Bush's strongest most nauseating marks-given his forum is talk radio that is saying quite a bit.
Let us not forget that back on September 30th 2003 Howard thundered I only wish someone would fly an airplane into Maher's studio while he is saying stuff like this..." that was in response to some "pro-terrorist stuff" Bill Maher allegedly uttered on HBO.
Howard could always be depended upon to call Bill Clinton a coward and a sell-out and friend of terrorists and all the rest.
You get the picture hardly a member of the A.D.A.
You'd think all this sturm-und-drang would immunize Howard from the current backlash against smutty programing...but no, Clear Channel needs a sacrifice in the Post Janet's Teat world and Howard, high profile, huge profits and all, is it.
So predictably Stern has run to the left, detailing all the myriad links between Clear Channel and President Bush and sounding the First Amendment tocsin.
In truth what could he do?
If all that Bush idolatry he indulged doesn't do the trick, there is nothing left but go out in a blaze of martyred glory.
Make no mistake about it, Howard is in trouble here, Clear Channel has booted him off a paltry six stations but the word is the F.C.C. is preparing to "make a case" against Stern in a court of law.
That means an obscenity trial, which is an iffy proposition admittedly, but then that is dependent on Infinity Broadcasting (Howard's owners) making a fight.
It will probably come down to a bunch of accountants figuring out to the penny, the cost of keeping Howard versus the benefit of simply paying him off and starting over with the likes of Michael Savage in drive time.
What the outcome of that computation will be I do not know...but it could easily end without anyone ever entering a court room.
A lot can happen though, the F.C.C. could drop it's case, the mere threat might be enough to get Howard to see reason.
In which look for Stern to lay off the pro-Kerry line he has been taking this week doubleplusquick.
Still there is something sad about Howard Stern trying to rally the liberals in defense of free speech rights...these being the very same liberals Howard has gleefully stomped into marginality and impotence nigh these past twenty years.
Now today he expects to rise up in our endless fervid millions to keep alive his hopes of total radio domination?
Just who the hell does Howard think he is kidding?
The word "liberal" has been expunged from the public dialogue save as a bitter Orwellian style epithet...we don't have that kind of power anymore.
What little wherewithal we have has to be husbanded for other fights.
I'd like to have Howard on our side this fall, but who can trust him?
And anyway what can any of us really do for him?
We are the ones who are truly impotent here.
A right wing talk show host is under fire from movement conservatism precisely because there are so many rightical chic talkers out there, they can afford to ditch one with aplomb.
There are after all so many replacements waiting in the wings.
This is why we need our own liberal radio network, so that we can concentrate our forces and mass our buying power around selected strong points.
Coming to Howard's rescue is a futile exercise in my opinion, either he will sell us out, get replaced by Jay Severin or maybe he'll survive til election day.
Maybe...
The odds of him even being on the air by Halloween is at best fifty fifty.
To the extent that this might be a First Amendment case, I wish Howard luck but that is all I have for him.
Sorry guy, where were you when the Wall Street Journal was lying it's ass off about Al Gore and the Florida recount?
So Howard Stern got thrown off Clear Channel and claims it is because he has turned against President Bush.
Could happen, I ain't one to judge.
It is just plain weird though, to hear a voice from out my car radio denouncing President Bush in the most strident terms the law will allow-frankly I'm not sure how to handle the situation.
There is an irony at work here, for years now Howard has been one of Bush's strongest most nauseating marks-given his forum is talk radio that is saying quite a bit.
Let us not forget that back on September 30th 2003 Howard thundered I only wish someone would fly an airplane into Maher's studio while he is saying stuff like this..." that was in response to some "pro-terrorist stuff" Bill Maher allegedly uttered on HBO.
Howard could always be depended upon to call Bill Clinton a coward and a sell-out and friend of terrorists and all the rest.
You get the picture hardly a member of the A.D.A.
You'd think all this sturm-und-drang would immunize Howard from the current backlash against smutty programing...but no, Clear Channel needs a sacrifice in the Post Janet's Teat world and Howard, high profile, huge profits and all, is it.
So predictably Stern has run to the left, detailing all the myriad links between Clear Channel and President Bush and sounding the First Amendment tocsin.
In truth what could he do?
If all that Bush idolatry he indulged doesn't do the trick, there is nothing left but go out in a blaze of martyred glory.
Make no mistake about it, Howard is in trouble here, Clear Channel has booted him off a paltry six stations but the word is the F.C.C. is preparing to "make a case" against Stern in a court of law.
That means an obscenity trial, which is an iffy proposition admittedly, but then that is dependent on Infinity Broadcasting (Howard's owners) making a fight.
It will probably come down to a bunch of accountants figuring out to the penny, the cost of keeping Howard versus the benefit of simply paying him off and starting over with the likes of Michael Savage in drive time.
What the outcome of that computation will be I do not know...but it could easily end without anyone ever entering a court room.
A lot can happen though, the F.C.C. could drop it's case, the mere threat might be enough to get Howard to see reason.
In which look for Stern to lay off the pro-Kerry line he has been taking this week doubleplusquick.
Still there is something sad about Howard Stern trying to rally the liberals in defense of free speech rights...these being the very same liberals Howard has gleefully stomped into marginality and impotence nigh these past twenty years.
Now today he expects to rise up in our endless fervid millions to keep alive his hopes of total radio domination?
Just who the hell does Howard think he is kidding?
The word "liberal" has been expunged from the public dialogue save as a bitter Orwellian style epithet...we don't have that kind of power anymore.
What little wherewithal we have has to be husbanded for other fights.
I'd like to have Howard on our side this fall, but who can trust him?
And anyway what can any of us really do for him?
We are the ones who are truly impotent here.
A right wing talk show host is under fire from movement conservatism precisely because there are so many rightical chic talkers out there, they can afford to ditch one with aplomb.
There are after all so many replacements waiting in the wings.
This is why we need our own liberal radio network, so that we can concentrate our forces and mass our buying power around selected strong points.
Coming to Howard's rescue is a futile exercise in my opinion, either he will sell us out, get replaced by Jay Severin or maybe he'll survive til election day.
Maybe...
The odds of him even being on the air by Halloween is at best fifty fifty.
To the extent that this might be a First Amendment case, I wish Howard luck but that is all I have for him.
Sorry guy, where were you when the Wall Street Journal was lying it's ass off about Al Gore and the Florida recount?
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
Victory and it's adherents
Cable news is simply hopeless, there is no redeeming it.
I was watching the "Super Tuesday" coverage last night and an exhausting banal exercise it was in every way
Chris Matthews is batty, no doubt about it.
He interrupts the smarmy bastard the network sent to Kerry Headquarters last night several times, made odd irrelevant asides all evening, and this tripe was scheduled to ramble on til 2 am!
There is a scary thought, it is one am and Chris is still jabbering away like an overtired wolverine...no doubt in the wee small hours of the morning Matthews can finally convince himself that Kerry is doomed and the election should be cancelled.
The rest of my channel surfing was just as ridiculous...Joe Trippi looks like a shell-shocked bum, Ralph Reed has that hateful little smirk on his face...can't recall the name of a single fighting liberal called out to do election play by play.
James Carville, Paul Begala or Joe Conason were nowhere to be seen.
Wolf Blitzer is a pompous bore and Faux News had some hideous fembot yakking away like there was no tomorrow...christ it was like feeding time in a carnival side show.
I can't recall a single sensible thing any of these yankers said over the course of ninety minutes of viewing...in contrast I can recall most of the details of Kerry's victory speech last night plus a few vignettes from John Edward's post primary appearance.
Kerry seems to running a fairly serious even conservative campaign...this is not to say he is being cautious or anything.
His most potent lines last night revolved around preserving and conserving the gains of past liberal administrations. His biggest applause line were the promise of energy independence and the pledge to get health coverage for all Americans.
Hardly comintern stuff.
But then, Kerry isn't the radical in the race, Bush is.
Speaking of Bush what is his game plan?
He seems to be running on all the socially divisive issues he wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll in campaign 2000.
If in October of 2000 some enterprising reporter had asked GWB to comment on a proposed amendment to the constitution outlawing gay marriage, Karl Rove would've hustled the candidate out of the room without another word.
Yet in situation after situation these days Bush continually caves in to his radical revolutionary right, his AG comports himself like the head of the Czarist secret police, personal medical records are seized, and homosexuals denounced in flowery legal language.
One get the impression that these people have the President at bay, they charge a high price for their support and GWB will pay and pay again before November's election.
It calls Bush's leadership into question certainly, but you'd never know that from watching cable news last night.
Cable news is simply hopeless, there is no redeeming it.
I was watching the "Super Tuesday" coverage last night and an exhausting banal exercise it was in every way
Chris Matthews is batty, no doubt about it.
He interrupts the smarmy bastard the network sent to Kerry Headquarters last night several times, made odd irrelevant asides all evening, and this tripe was scheduled to ramble on til 2 am!
There is a scary thought, it is one am and Chris is still jabbering away like an overtired wolverine...no doubt in the wee small hours of the morning Matthews can finally convince himself that Kerry is doomed and the election should be cancelled.
The rest of my channel surfing was just as ridiculous...Joe Trippi looks like a shell-shocked bum, Ralph Reed has that hateful little smirk on his face...can't recall the name of a single fighting liberal called out to do election play by play.
James Carville, Paul Begala or Joe Conason were nowhere to be seen.
Wolf Blitzer is a pompous bore and Faux News had some hideous fembot yakking away like there was no tomorrow...christ it was like feeding time in a carnival side show.
I can't recall a single sensible thing any of these yankers said over the course of ninety minutes of viewing...in contrast I can recall most of the details of Kerry's victory speech last night plus a few vignettes from John Edward's post primary appearance.
Kerry seems to running a fairly serious even conservative campaign...this is not to say he is being cautious or anything.
His most potent lines last night revolved around preserving and conserving the gains of past liberal administrations. His biggest applause line were the promise of energy independence and the pledge to get health coverage for all Americans.
Hardly comintern stuff.
But then, Kerry isn't the radical in the race, Bush is.
Speaking of Bush what is his game plan?
He seems to be running on all the socially divisive issues he wouldn't touch with a ten foot poll in campaign 2000.
If in October of 2000 some enterprising reporter had asked GWB to comment on a proposed amendment to the constitution outlawing gay marriage, Karl Rove would've hustled the candidate out of the room without another word.
Yet in situation after situation these days Bush continually caves in to his radical revolutionary right, his AG comports himself like the head of the Czarist secret police, personal medical records are seized, and homosexuals denounced in flowery legal language.
One get the impression that these people have the President at bay, they charge a high price for their support and GWB will pay and pay again before November's election.
It calls Bush's leadership into question certainly, but you'd never know that from watching cable news last night.
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Shriek, Memory...
The Romney is a Fraud blog has sparked my memory today.
Whatever happened to that insufferable little bastard who affected a dinosaur costume and followed Shannon O'Brien all throughout campaign 2002?
Allegedly he was a senior at UMass Amherst wherein inane stunts like that are SOP for kampus konservative bundists.
I ran into him at the State House at a rally for Chris Gabrieli....he had that creepy MTV Jackass type smile.
I don't know why but borderline personalities seem to abound in campus conservative politics....look at Laura Ingraham a self medicating bipolar case if ever I heard one.
Anyhow, what became of that kid?
I seem to recall he was doing this "cuz I'm worried about jobs..."
Well, jobs are the Kolobian Viceroy's number one priority, especially jobs for the deserving faithful.
I have it in my head that Dinoboy is running errands for Tagg Romney over at the GOP State Committee...strictly on a cash basis and off the books you understand.
I'll bet this little maggot fairly jumps when told to run out and grab the Viceregal son a decaf latte and a cran-muffin.
All time well spent, sooner or later the big promotion has to come...perhaps the GOP nomination for state rep in Lexington or Brockton or some other salubrious district.
Oh course this is all speculation y'unnerstan'...
Anyone with this boy-o's final fate, drop me a note at:
Eliasnugator@yahoo.com
The Romney is a Fraud blog has sparked my memory today.
Whatever happened to that insufferable little bastard who affected a dinosaur costume and followed Shannon O'Brien all throughout campaign 2002?
Allegedly he was a senior at UMass Amherst wherein inane stunts like that are SOP for kampus konservative bundists.
I ran into him at the State House at a rally for Chris Gabrieli....he had that creepy MTV Jackass type smile.
I don't know why but borderline personalities seem to abound in campus conservative politics....look at Laura Ingraham a self medicating bipolar case if ever I heard one.
Anyhow, what became of that kid?
I seem to recall he was doing this "cuz I'm worried about jobs..."
Well, jobs are the Kolobian Viceroy's number one priority, especially jobs for the deserving faithful.
I have it in my head that Dinoboy is running errands for Tagg Romney over at the GOP State Committee...strictly on a cash basis and off the books you understand.
I'll bet this little maggot fairly jumps when told to run out and grab the Viceregal son a decaf latte and a cran-muffin.
All time well spent, sooner or later the big promotion has to come...perhaps the GOP nomination for state rep in Lexington or Brockton or some other salubrious district.
Oh course this is all speculation y'unnerstan'...
Anyone with this boy-o's final fate, drop me a note at:
Eliasnugator@yahoo.com
Monday, March 01, 2004
The Banshee Squeals for Blood...
I am beginning to be a fan of Senator Rick "High Pitched Rick" Santorum's squeaky incandescent rhetoric.
Oh I realize that he is a dangerous demagogue and a senatorial windbag of ill repute...but he has to be the last great practitioner of pulpit hysterics.
Nowadays men rise to absolute power on the basis of their ability to mumble and malaprop...it is a far cry from the days when public speaking was considered an art fit only for virtuoso like Clarence Darrow.
Maybe Santorum is not as good as the late great Huey P. Long, but at least he is in there trying.
The Senator called into Imus today in an absolute transport of fear and envy over the prospect of gay marriage.
Fear by the way is one of High Pitch Rick's specialties, connoisseurs of senatorial frightmongering will recall with lip smacking relish Santorum's gruesome rhetorical imagery during last year's "partial birth abortion" pseudo debate.
It was the same today, at no point did Santorum wallow in base hatred of homosexuality, rather he hewed to a complex argument that cited mysterious malign consequences that would result if gay marriage was "legalized".
Oh you should've heard him it was a rhapsody a symphony of confused facts and values, sixty percent of all Danish births are out of wedlock...that makes gay marriage bad for us!
No fault divorce devalues marriage, so does cradle to grave welfare benefits...image the effect gay marriage will have on this poor faltering "sacred institution".
Yup, give Rick credit he cited divorce as a threat to the GOP's sacred institution....maybe that is their next target.
All you divorcee's out there get ready, next thing you know Rick will wanna outlaw your divorce decrees.
His voice takes on this psychotic whine and the words just rush out like machine gun rounds.
It was inspiring really, such bigotry as has not been heard since the salad days of Nathan Bedford Forrest and the hooded order....Rick's argument can be summed up as " I don't hate gays, I'm just childishly threatened at the thought of queers gaining the right to marriage".
Sadly as far as his development as a demagogue goes, Rick is still in the second rank.
That is because he is indulging this "kinder gentler" brand of homophobia because fiery Baptist shamanism doesn't play well on the teevee. Rick is playing it safe in hopes of snagging the GOP's veep-nod come September.
Nonetheless, in an age of trendy computer vetted soundbytes, Rick is trying to keep the lost art of demagoguery going...for this we owe him a debt of thanks.
I am beginning to be a fan of Senator Rick "High Pitched Rick" Santorum's squeaky incandescent rhetoric.
Oh I realize that he is a dangerous demagogue and a senatorial windbag of ill repute...but he has to be the last great practitioner of pulpit hysterics.
Nowadays men rise to absolute power on the basis of their ability to mumble and malaprop...it is a far cry from the days when public speaking was considered an art fit only for virtuoso like Clarence Darrow.
Maybe Santorum is not as good as the late great Huey P. Long, but at least he is in there trying.
The Senator called into Imus today in an absolute transport of fear and envy over the prospect of gay marriage.
Fear by the way is one of High Pitch Rick's specialties, connoisseurs of senatorial frightmongering will recall with lip smacking relish Santorum's gruesome rhetorical imagery during last year's "partial birth abortion" pseudo debate.
It was the same today, at no point did Santorum wallow in base hatred of homosexuality, rather he hewed to a complex argument that cited mysterious malign consequences that would result if gay marriage was "legalized".
Oh you should've heard him it was a rhapsody a symphony of confused facts and values, sixty percent of all Danish births are out of wedlock...that makes gay marriage bad for us!
No fault divorce devalues marriage, so does cradle to grave welfare benefits...image the effect gay marriage will have on this poor faltering "sacred institution".
Yup, give Rick credit he cited divorce as a threat to the GOP's sacred institution....maybe that is their next target.
All you divorcee's out there get ready, next thing you know Rick will wanna outlaw your divorce decrees.
His voice takes on this psychotic whine and the words just rush out like machine gun rounds.
It was inspiring really, such bigotry as has not been heard since the salad days of Nathan Bedford Forrest and the hooded order....Rick's argument can be summed up as " I don't hate gays, I'm just childishly threatened at the thought of queers gaining the right to marriage".
Sadly as far as his development as a demagogue goes, Rick is still in the second rank.
That is because he is indulging this "kinder gentler" brand of homophobia because fiery Baptist shamanism doesn't play well on the teevee. Rick is playing it safe in hopes of snagging the GOP's veep-nod come September.
Nonetheless, in an age of trendy computer vetted soundbytes, Rick is trying to keep the lost art of demagoguery going...for this we owe him a debt of thanks.
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