Supporting Imperial Fashion
Isaac and I rarely watch TV anymore; there just doesn't seem much point to it really.
Now I think there's even less point, since apparently Driftglass watches all those tedious Sunday-morning talking-heads programs and then summarizes ("Sunday Morning Comin' Down…Redux") the results (far better than the TV Guide ever could) — at least he did this week..
Just consider these little excerpts, in which he also manages to capture, in the most vivid language, modern challenges to science and an eternal truth [?] of the Republican guidelines for political life*:
Back on Face The Nation – Bob Schieffer gives a little reason and shines a little clear light when he points (I’m paraphrasing) out that, with regards to Science generally, our national debate has become an embarrassment. We used to be the leaders and the trailblazers. And it used to be the job of Government to regulate the PRODUCTS of science…not science itself. Now we are governed by scared little idiots who want to ban science because it threatens their Hillbilly Cult superstition.
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Brit Hume informs that that it would be a terrible mistake to shut down Guantanamo Bay and that basically all the charges leveled against and the charges are OUTRAGEOUS.After all, that fella from Human Rights Watch who said all of them bad things, he worked for the Clinton Administration! Horrors! Because as we know, Every Single One of the hundreds of thousands of people who were employed by the Executive Branch during the eight Clinton years were all America-Hating Liars.
And then he comes with the Sentence of the Week. The words perfectly sum up Republican Thinking, that, “To close the prison down would be an acknowledgement that what is going on down there is wrong.”
The issue for propagandist traitors like the Hume-unculus is not whether on not something is actually Wrong…it is acknowledging that something is Wrong. When, through a concerted assault of the Truth you actually get away with parading the Naked Emperor all over the teevee and demanding fealty to the Lie that he is dressed to the Nines…the only Unpardonable Sin is not going along with the scam.
(BTW, does anybody remember that we were going to bulldoze Abu Ghraib? That it was such a symbol of dread to the Iraqi People that it was to be razed as a sign of good faith…instead of repurposing it as Uncle Sam’s Anal Rape and Genital Electrocution Spa?)
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*To serve my own nefarious purposes, I have switched the order of driftglass' original presentation, putting Bob Schieffer ahead of Brit Hume.
In: All, Common-Place Book, Speaking of Science, Splenetics