Great read from Driftglass:

[kath]

She Can See Fatwa From Her House


It is not one of them: It's ALL of them.

It is not a straight line between A and B: it's the immersive, rage-drunk, paranoid, casually eliminationist sewage in which they all luxuriate.

It is their raving, clattering, hysterical, Wall of Wingnut Sound -- underwritten by their own billionaires, amplified a million times and megaphoned into every corner of America from the pages of Regnery Press trash, from Rush Radio, from Fox News and from the pulpit -- that drowns out everything else. That has conditioned a generation of weak-minded rubes to mindlessly dehumanize and hate Liberals and blame us for their every ache and itch as thoroughly and automatically as the "good Germans" of the 1930s were conditioned to blame the Jews.

(quote from Milton Mayers' "They Thought They Were Free" follows)

But worst of all, it's the professional equivocators who earn their seven-figure salaries by using the cameras they control to reflexively bellow "But the Democrats..." in the face of every Right wing lie and atrocity.

(more at link, w/ great illustrations) http://driftglass.blogspot.com/

Yesterday's post, titled "Sunday Morning Coming Down", is great as well.

[The Magistrate]

1. Indeed, Ma'am: An Excellent Piece

[kath]

2. kick for the evening crowd

[bemildred]

3. Good rant.

One thinks of Travis Bickle and Tim McVeigh. We are all supposed to think this is random. The talking heads are not disinterested in all this, the sheriff called them out.

[glitch]

4. K & R agreed, and this one

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2011/01/bastardized-mind.html

[kath]

5. Thanks for that - hubby reads Driftglass pretty regularly; looks like I should start doing the same.

[glitch]

6. I really enjoy the radio show too. I only heard about it (on DU) about a month ago.

Driftglass and Blue Gal are very talented, a great find.