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Friday, October 27, 2006

It is Bullshit!

Tom Tomorrow is spot on.

The depravity of conservatives, and the willingness of the media to indulge it, never ceases to amaze me. In a rational society, when a drug-addled gasbag radio host mocks an actor with a debilitating disease, the ensuing discussion would revolve around said drug-addled gasbag’s many, many faults as a human being, not least of which being his ready willingness to mock the handicapped. Rather than treating his uninformed speculation as beneath contempt, however, people are actually discussing whether Michael J. Fox’s symptoms are as bad as they look in these campaign commercials. I know that the media are amoral predators, constantly alert for any hint of blood in the water, but I guess I’m still naive enough to wish that occasionally Keith Olbermann wouldn’t be the only person in the entire industry willing to call bullshit when the odor is rank enough to make you gag.

But I’m also naive enough to imagine that this will backfire as spectacularly as the Terry Schiavo circus did. Seriously, Republicans — you want to rally around the drug-addled gasbag hatemonger in his war against the beloved actor with the debilitating disease — please, by all means, go for it.

2 Swings of the bat:

The Game said...

talk about hate...
I would rally behind the fact that for the first time ever, someone has made disease political...
make sure you watch Steele's ad on my blog to see what ASSHOLES liberals look like for trying to imply republicans don't care about people with disease...

Other Side said...

Let's talk about hate?

Limbaugh is ALL about hate. The point of the piece was about Limbaugh and his hate. Limbaugh IS a hateful gasbag. You're defending him?