"MIRROR, MIRROR....Since loathsome media stars are in the news this week, I'm curious: who do you think is the most loathsome of all? Feel free to interpret this any way you want: personally most annoying, most damaging to the body politic, most dishonest, most harmful to the general karma of the universe, etc. Whatever. Basically, who would you most like to get rid of?
By rights, I suppose the answer should be someone like Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, or Sean Hannity. And those are all good choices! But for reasons I can't fully articulate — perhaps because I just don't watch enough TV — my choices are Nancy Grace and Chris Matthews. If "Wall Street Journal editorial page" were a person, they'd make my list too.
What's your choice? And even though I'm not setting a good example here, let us know why you chose who you chose. But please keep the language entertaining, not offensive. It's a weekend, and the cats might be reading...."
& later:
"THE WORST OF THE WORST....It occurs to me that I owe you all an explanation of why, earlier today, I chose Nancy Grace and Chris Matthews as our most loathsome media stars, with a bonus honorable mention for the collective id of the Wall Street Journal editorial page. So here it is.
Basically, I figure that although the general phenomenon of right-wing spewing has done serious damage over the past couple of decades, individual wingnut frothers like O'Reilly and Limbaugh, for all their loathsomeness, have limited influence these days. They draw most of their viewers from the ranks of true believers, so their tirades probably change very few minds. Their audience already agrees with them.
But that's not true of my three choices. Matthews' audience is probably mostly liberal and centrist liberal, and he convinces them that liberal politics is an idiotic clown show. Nancy Grace pulls in all types and turns them into slavering lynch mobs convinced that amendments 4 through 8 of the constitution are mere obsolete technicalities. And the WSJ editorial page is read mostly by business people who initially tend toward the right, but are then converted by the WSJ's patented brew of smarminess and intellectual dishonesty into full-time Hillary-hating, supply-side idolizing, worker-loathing zombie shock troops for movement conservatism..."
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Drum's right. It's not the obvious spew-meisters, it's the smarmy, insinuating ones. Or the useful tools like Russert.
If frequent 'expert' guests are in the running as loathsome media stars,I nominate Rich Lowry. Why the hell isn't Lowry in uniform?
His zero sacrifice support for the occupation is loathsome.
Oh yeah, Kate O'Beirne. Loathsomeness itself.
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