Successful Failures

There are many right wing radio hosts who are rich from their performances on the air. They are steadfast in their opinions to the point of boredom. They are critical of those who disagree with them to the point of McCarthyism. They coddle their right wing callers, trash their left wing callers, and say the same thing over and over and over. I cannot believe people listen daily, not because of the stand,but because of the monotony. How can the audience not be weary of name calling such as "Chucky Schmucky Schumer", "Hillary Rotten Clinton", and "Drive by Media"? How can someone work for the ABC Radio Network and say they are not in the mainstream media? It isn't as if they are broadcasting from a dinghy on the Hudson.

The most amazing facet of these men and women is that they operate as if they had no faults of their own. Limbaugh's three failed marriages don't stop him from castigating other's failed betrothals. Hannity's lack of military service will not halt his efforts to fight wars in which he is not at risk. Ingraham's attack on left wing entertainers speaking against the war does not stop her from being silent on the musings of Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, and Clint Black, hawkish country singers who collectively never served ten seconds in conflict, but are pro war.

If you think thing that our disagreement over public policy makes me a traitor, then you are either a fraud or a liar. Your poking the listener dog with your verbal stick is nauseating. O'Reilly calling someone a bad American because they oppose the war is amusing. I thought a middle aged man wooing a subordinate with sexual musings was bad citizenship,Bill. I thought bullying a housekeeper into scoring illegal meds was bad citizenship, Rush. I thought ratting out closeted gay teens to their parents was bad citizenship, Laura (considering that you are the sister of a gay man and are an unmarried middle aged woman with no man in sight).

The radio right also enjoys broad brush strokes If someone on the left does something foolish, Limbaugh will say, "See? That's what liberals do!" I'll make Limbaugh a deal: Don't blame me for Tim Robbins, and I won't blame you for Tim McVeigh.

It would be easier to counter this if many liberal hosts didn't spend every moment on the air trashing George Bush. I get it, he sucks, now move on to another topic. My next posting will discuss how badly Air America started out,and why there is hope for it now. Clue: they're hiring radio people.

Senator, Not Queen

Does the press ever have it in for Hillary Clinton. David Geffen unloads on her because her husband didn't pardon his friend. He stays at the White House so he can brag to his friends about the percale and then calls the Clintons liars. Bitchy, very bitchy.
They say she is humorless, she is stiff, she is rehearsed. We are going to be dumping a president soon who liked to laugh and seemed real loosey goosey,how did he work out for the country?
She is a really smart public servant, and every day I see men talk about her like she's the smart girl in school, with a combination of jealousy and vitriol.
Senator Obama is a marvelous force in politics, but I have no idea if he can come up with solutions, all he has done so far is tell me that others have made mistakes. I already knew that.
I think all this helps Senator Edwards. He just lays in the cut and lets them slug it out. The greater damage is done to the party. The candidates are so hungry to take the place of the incompetent dry drunk who occupies the Oval Office now, that they are showing their immaturity and impatience.
By the way, Maureen Dowd has given up all parts of the high ground after the proboscis burial she performed in Joe Biden's tush.

IMHO

If 58% of Americans want the war to end, who is the GOP speaking for when they vote against the non binding resolution?

Attention Fox News: The Daily Show makes fun of both sides, your new political satire show only trashes the left. That is not satire,that is an extension of your regular programming.

By the way, Fox News: If Ann Coulter was any stiffer in your ad for this show, she could have been stored in a pool cue case.

Rush delivered his lines well, but I can tell that personal chef cooking health foods for him must have received his walking papers.

Three marriages, lived with gay guys, and pro affirmative action is just part of the reason the GOP cannot nominate Giuliani.

The religious right is ticked off at McCain. These people are awfully strict until they get caught with drugs and a male of a non discreet nature.

The mothers of two of Jason Kidd's out of wedlock children say he is a good father. Who needs to write comedy?

Try this, Senator Clinton: "I made a mistake by believing the lies perpetrated by President Bush". You get the "m" word out there and beat up on W at the same time, a win-win.

If left wing celebrities support a third party candidate, please don't insult us by saying the votes that person drew away from the Democratic candidate didn't matter. That is a lie worthy of an NRA spokesperson.

If Levin and Savage are Jews, how come they act like they're not?

Monica Crowley, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, all conservative mouthpieces, all blonde, all never married, no children. Hmmmm....How consistent.

The more I listen to Barbara Bush, the more I realize from where W gets his mean streak, and it isn't from George (The Feckless) XLI. Insensitive, elitist, and intellectually limited, it passes from mother to son. In this family, XLI is like Joseph in the Bible, an interesting adjunct, but not essential to the main plot line.

Why is it President's Day? Are we supposed to celebrate Franklin Pierce, (who,by the way is a third generation uncle of Barbara Bush) an ineffectual racist? Hooray for Warren G. Harding, a man so inept he makes W look intellectually curious! Limit it to five CIC or so, and let's not pretend we want to sit around the campfire and thrill to how Polk stole Texas from Mexico.

If a welfare mother runs afoul of the law, the right screams for sterilization. Brintey Spears is throwing up in limos and we ignore. I think K-Fed may win custody, and what does that say about this redneck Mouseketeer?

Crook Schmook,Big Dif

So the other night I am listening to Sean Hannity interview Rudy Giuliani, and until this moment I could not put my finger on what it is about Rudy that bothers me. Then he started talking about the Supreme Court. He went on to say that over the past decades, the court has "expanded the rights of criminals". WHOA!!! You mean the accused, don't you Mr. Mayor? You DO know that people are innocent until proven guilty, don't you, Rudy? Then it all came back: he doesn't want to be the president, he wants to be king. He tried to be king of New York, but we wouldn't let him rule for another ninety days. Who else but an egomaniac would let his wife write a piece in the Post about what a he man he is unless he was really needing to be told he is the king? Pro-choice? Sure, but he'll appoint judges who will shove women back into alleys. What a self-serving mean spirited creep. Oh, Rudy! Have you come out of the command center yet?

The Nerve!!!!

Poor Mary Matalin, she is swimming upstream with both hands tied behind her back. She feels compelled to defend the Bushies over this war, and her defense has taken strident measures.
The other day, Matalin knocked Chris Matthews for speaking out on a position opposite hers. She essentially said that he doesn't have the right to speak out in such a partisan manner on the air.
Let me get this right: Chris Matthews cannot speak out on issues on the Chris Matthews show. Hannity can on his show, O'Reilly can on his show, Limbaugh can on his show, but not Chris Matthews on his show. If that idea made less sense, Bush would have said it.
Then we have John McCain, senator,war hero, presidential candidate, and media fave. Reporters were elbowing each other out of the way to get a seat on McCain's "Straight Talk Express" campaign bus in 2000, and he loved the attention. When I worked at "America's Talking", and we couldn't get a guest or if a guest cancelled, we could almost always get McCain, the guy would show up for a toothpaste tube opening.
Now he is angry. He is mad because John Solomon of the Washington Post reported that McCain has embraced soft money,that end around method of getting contributions from large donors, a position that he had previously condemned. He called this article the worst cheap shot he had ever endured.
Really? Worse than the Bush campaign saying his wife was a drug addict? Worse than saying he illegally adopted a child? Worse than Karl Rove spreading the idea McCain ratted out his fellow POWS? Does anyone believe that? Hands? Anyone?
This is the same McCain who slammed Jerry Falwell,and then spoke at Falwell's Liberty college, proving that anybody can embrace anyone.
As he slides off of the presdiential bandwagon, McCain can look to one place for his demise: the mirror.