Bearding the Bloviators
A timely message from John DePaul:
Mark Helprin In today’s Wall Street Journal (”McCain and the Talk-Show Hosts”) takes on the flapmouth fraternity and their holier-than-thou stance against McCain’s candidacy based on their perceptions of his disrespect for “conservative principles.” The concluding paragraph:
“So, rather than playing recklessly with electoral politics by sabotaging their own party ostensibly for its impurity but equally for the sake of their self-indulgent pique, each of these compulsive talkers might be a tad less self-righteous, look to the long run, discipline himself, suck it up, and be a man. And that would apply equally as well for the gorgeous Laura Ingraham and the relentlessly crocodilian Ann Coulter.”
As a conservative, albeit of the moderate variety, I agree with Helprin’s view. I remember, too, that Ronald Reagan once said, “When you go over the cliff with flags flying, you’ve still gone over the cliff.”
What a bunch of supercilious assholes. There is still hope, I hope, for Glenn Beck and Laura. The rest will cut their own throats through blind allegiance to what they think their listenership “bases” want to hear.
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Well noted! Good to see that some independence lives on after Rupert’s acquisition of the Journal.
Personally, I wish McCain actually did have more disrespect for conservative principles, but there’s only one exception I want to lodge to your comments. There is no hope for Glenn Beck.
Comment by Al — February 12, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
There is indeed hope for Glenn Beck, but only if he wishes to become a siding salesman. That’s the only profession I know of in which he could succeed without giving idiocy a bad name.
Comment by Steve Alber — February 13, 2008 @ 9:41 am
Good thought. May he move off the air and into selling siding for the right wings of ranch houses in Crawford, Texas. But first, someone will have to invent a pre-infested Formosan termite siding.
Comment by Al — February 13, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
I’ve often heard Republicans eat their young. In this case the right-wing is also very busy devouring an old bird.
Comment by MrsD — February 16, 2008 @ 10:08 pm