Wednesday Wingnut Watch
Unconsummated Love Affair between Eric Massa and Right Wing Pundits Edition
It’s Monday March 8th, and us conservatives LOOOOVE Eric Massa to pieces for dumping on Obama and telling stories about Rahm Emanuel naked in the shower! Rush Limbaugh, Red State, and National Review Online, among others, were getting pretty excited about the idea of Massa on their side. Here is what Dick Morris had to say:
Eric Massa, a renegade Democrat from the Southern Tier of New York state faces his wrath. Massa’s sin was to vote against Obamacare. So Pelosi and the ethically challenged House Ethics Committee are investigating him for “verbally abusing” a male member of his staff.
In this age of more serious offenses, using “salty language” to express his displeasure with staff work would not seem to rank high on the list of indictable offenses. If it were, Lyndon Johnson would have been impeached. But Massa is being hung out to dry as an example to other would-be independent-minded Democrats. The attacks on him have gotten so bad that Massa has announced his retirement after only one term in office….
It’s Wednesday. Uh, gee, we never said we liked Massa, did we? But we definitely still like the naked shower story. After Massa’s Tuesday TV appearances failed to satisfy the blood lust for anti-Obama stories, everything was different. Rush Limbaugh backtracked:
Thursday. Okay, so now us conservatives have sobered up and realized that Massa is not our guy after all. Let’s get back to familiar turf. It’s Nancy Pelosi’s fault, Yeah, that’s the ticket. Massa was a dry hole, so back to Pelosi-bashing:
Some perspective: Three and a half years ago, Rep. Mark Foley was forced out over a sex scandal, and it became clear that the Republican House leadership had been sitting on the facts for a long while. For old times sake, let’s take a look at Hannity’s enthusiastic defense of then-Speaker Dennis Hastert in 2006:
Okay, now we’ve really got the right handle on it, thanks to Rush… Mark Foley was Pelosi’s fault too. Leave it to Rush to find the crazy and illogical sweet spot in any uncomfortable truth.
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