The Cup O' Joe Report: Thursday, January 12, 2006 - Political Theater

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This is a transcript of Joe Vecchio's daily "Cup O' Joe Report" podcast, availaible here and posted with the permission of the author.

A dramatic moment occurred during Judge Alito's confirmation hearings yesterday when the nominee's wife, the mysterious figure known only as "Mrs. Alito", ran from the hearing in tears, presumably because of the "tough" questions being asked of her husband. It was an obvious piece of political theater orchestrated by the Republican propagandists at FOX and elsewhere who are so anxious to prove that all Democrats are vicious thugs and Republicans are high-minded civil servants being victimized.

You wonder, at what point will the millions of Americans who only marginally pay attention to what's going on begin to see how phony this all is? You'd at least think that the highly-organized, well-paid right wing hate machine could hire a better acting coach. No wonder they have to rig elections. And meanwhile, the so-called "professional" media is as always playing this off as just another fight between Democrats and Republicans, and that it doesn't really matter one way or another whether or not Judge Alito gets confirmed.

I wonder, did Mrs. Alito cry when she saw the images of the dead bodies floating in the waters of New Orleans? Did she cry when she learned of the deaths of the eleven miners in West Virginia? Did she cry at any time during the war in Iraq, at either the loss of one of our soldiers or any of the tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis? Don't make me laugh.

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