Posts Tagged ‘Steve Doocy’

Could someone should check the thermometer in Hell? I think the recent cold snap must have hit more than just the bulk of the United States. The reason I ask is because I never thought I’d live to see the day that so many white, rich Republicans would be so offended by racial statements made against a black man. It’s really gotta be freezing in Satan’s back yard if Harry Reid’s off-the-record comments are more offensive than “Obama As Witchdoctor“. At least I don’t remember Cornyn doing press interviews about that. Of course Cornyn is desperately trying to make his party relevant again, so he’ll say anything, hypocritical or just plain stupid as it may be.

A fascinating act has been taking place before our very eyes and I think it deserves recognition. Perhaps a special Oscar category could be made. There is simply no more fitting way to describe what the conservatives in congress and in the media are doing. Take this for example, courtesy of Media Matters:

Now to the untrained eye, which is roughly 95% of the Fox & Friends viewership, it may look like Laura Ingram, Steve Doochey and Brian Kilmeade have an actual point. In short, Democrats are overstating the dangers of this economy so that any turn in the other direction can be sighted as progress. And apparently creating only 2 million jobs would be total and utter failure in Doochey’s assessment, hence his permanent name change on this site.

But to folks who’ve been watching both sides of their mouths for the last decade or so, something more interesting and truly funny is starting to show: They know this stimulus is going to work and they’re preemptively trying to call it a miserable failure even if it does succeed on some minor level. Watch that segment again and tell me it’s not fall-on-the-floor hilarious. They fear any measurable success in the stimulus package. Why? Because they disowned it. Any success is yet another disgrace to their failed economic vision. And any failure will be amplified by their right-wing echo chamber.

The funniest example of a right-winger totally owning up to the fact that this bill will have a measure of success is none other than Karl Rove himself (hat tip to Raw Story).

I also find it humorous that they call it using “fear tactics” and “doom and gloom” on the American people. They should be experts on this subject because it’s all they’ve resorted to when it came to terrorism and it’s how we ended up in Iraq in the first place. And since we’re drawing parallels to the Iraq War, I think there was a bit of spending involved in that one. The last I checked there was.

In fact, if I recall correctly, the previous administration managed to give out no-bid contracts to the companies they used to work for and, at the same time, manage to literally lose billions of those dollars into thin air. Boy I wish that billions of dollars could somehow go missing in our own country.

The fact is that Republicans have lost a considerable amount of face over the past years because of disastrous decisions and horrible management. The result is that the last two elections have seen Republicans being shown the door for being such awful stewards of our government. So now they’ve returned to the stone-throwing partisanship and hoping for another chance to fool the electorate into another “Contract With America” that they can screw us with.

Honestly, I don’t think Americans have too much difficulty in seeing these statements for what they really are: The last cries of a dying ideology that brought about the greatest economic disaster since The Great Depression. I expect they’d be bitter for owning that dubious reputation once more since their party was responsible for that one, too. But what they need to accept is their ideas have failed, the American people voted for change and that’s exactly what’s happening.

PS: Can someone tell Lindsey Graham to stop using a smarmy rendition of “that’s not a change we can believe in” as if the campaign is still on? Fuck, he’s an embarrassment.

After Obama won the election, there was a brief moment I thought, naively of course, that I wouldn’t have much to write about as it pertains to politics. Silly me, I’ve forgotten that Fox News, for reasons I’ll never understand, is still relevant to a good portion of people out there. And nothing encapsulates their shameless conservatism than their morning show, Fox & Friends. The normal trifecta of conservative blowhards is former Miss Minnesota, Gretchen Carlson, Brian Kilmeade and, my personal favorite, Steve Doocy. This morning Carlson was replaced by someone equally qualified to be a brainless QVC product model by the name of Alisyn Camerota.

This morning they presented me with a perfect example of the right-wing bent that their station has yet to publicly recognize. They did a spot about an ad campaign that is being launched in the DC area by the American Humanist Association that I think is fairly straightforward.

“Humanists have always understood that you don’t need a god to be good,” said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association. “So that’s the point we’re making with this advertising campaign. Morality doesn’t come from religion. It’s a set of values embraced by individuals and society based on empathy, fairness, and experience.”

*snip*

“We expect these bus signs to generate a lot of public interest,” said Fred Edwords, director of communications for the American Humanist Association. “Some folks may be offended but that isn’t our purpose. We just want to reach those open to this message but unaware how widespread their views are.

The “goodness’ sake” ads and posters direct people to a special Web site at http://www.whybelieveinagod.org/ that helps people find others of like mind in the Washington, D.C., metro area and nationally. The site also informs the public about humanism and answers common objections to the slogan as well as to the appropriateness of running the campaign during the holidays.

Of course to the trio of brainwashed nincompoops any question of the existence of a god is a direct affront to their precious Almighty. And, more importantly, by association it’s an affront to anyone who believes in a god. Raw Replay has the video spot.

Now I should make it very clear: I think Steve Doochey’s sardonic smile should be removed by some random bird of prey. I think that Kilmeade’s laughter at the thought of people being alone over the holiday season should be punishable by repeated kicks to the nads. I think Camerota’s faux persiveness to give the appearance that she actually gives half a shit about other people should be met with her having to actually get a decent education somewhere. But rather than wish horrible things upon these people, an activity that is best with with friends and a pack of Oreos, I’ve decided that perhaps we should take a look at their precious holiday in detail. Because since their unable to recognize an ad campaign that is targeted specifically at non-believers and not believers, let’s see if they’re able to recognize the pure insanity that makes up the Christmas season they’re so quick to defend. More below the fold.
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When I visited my mother recently, my kids rushed in and before I knew it one of them had changed the channel on her television to Cartoon Network. I scolded him but as it turned out he did ask grandma if he could and she quietly agreed. She then confided that she was trying to hide the fact that she had just turned the channel to Fox News “to get the other side of things”. She knows how I feel about Rupert Murdoch’s fantasy media outlets and didn’t want me to yet again go off about it. But I know that she watches it because her conservative boyfriend (who I adore) watches it religiously.

What I want to call to their attention, as well as to my readers’ attention, is yet another example of why you cannot take this network seriously. Apart from the fact that it willfully employs Republican hacks like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, they employ “journalists” who will go to great lengths to smear their political opposition and offer no apologies or corrections when they’re caught spreading false rumors and not well-researched facts.

Recently Fox has taken some interest in Sen. Barack Obama. The reason is simple: He’s one of the Democratic front-runners for the 2008 presidential election – a true competitor. While many of the masses think Hillary is the candidate to beat, I think it will be Barack Obama. Republican insiders, who no doubt witnessed his incredible and truly inspiring keynote address at the 2004 DNC, are very much aware of this. So they fall back on a tried and true tactic – sic the Foxhounds after him early. It started with the special emphasis on his middle name, Hussein. But it certainly didn’t end there.
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