a noun, a verb, 911 and then some.
I heard the other day on the Bill Press Show, Joe Bidden saidthat every sentence that Rudy Guiliani says contains a noun, a verb and 911. It looks like he’s branching out a little with his new rhetoric. But it’s not so much what he’s saying into his bullhorn, it’s that the media are standing on the sidelines with their hands in their pockets while he’s saying it.
The surprising thing isn’t that Giuliani is channeling Rush Limbaugh, tossing red meat to the lunatic fringe that has taken over the GOP. It’s that the media are letting him get away with it.
If a Democratic presidential candidate - or even a mere Congressman like Pete Stark– had said that Bush was going to invite the nuke-happy Ahmadinejad to the White House for a celebration, the airwaves would be filled with demands for an apology and an emergency session of Congress would be called to pass a resolution condemning the unpatriotic insult. John McCain said that MoveOn“ought to be thrown out of” the country for calling General Petraeus “General Betray Us.” But the front-runner for the Republican nomination suggests that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama would want to party with tyrants, and he gets a free pass from the traditional press. Why? Does a potential Hillary-Rudy match up offer too many good story lines to be derailed by increasing evidence of Giuliani’s readiness for a well-padded room?
This is analagous to what is happening locally with the Minarick hate-mailers. Why can the Repos trash the Dems with no repercussions? Why the double standard? Is it because the other party owns the media? I’ve talked to Repos (yes, occasionally I converse with the dark-side, but I promise you that I don’t enjoy it) about this and they still buy into the “Liberal Media” crap. And while they refuse to question and continue to accept this propaganda, our country is slip-sliding towards Fascism (check out #8) at an alarming rate.
Great post. I linked to Naomi the day it was published. I love that broad.
Same old double-standard, isn’t it? IOKIYAR. Infuriating.
Shhhhhhhh…..it wont hurt a bit.