McCain is Able? Hyper Hillary-Haters and an Obamanation
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– Oh, how the mighty have fallen:John McCain winning big on Super Tuesday shows how much influence the Right-Wing Noise Machine and the Christopublicans have lost, if it ever had much to begin with. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, James Dobson and the whole motley crew put it on the line and came out four-square against McCain, telling their audiences to vote against him, yet McCain cleared the decks in most of the big states, and racked up enough delegates to nearly make him the nominee. Fox News favorites Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson have dropped out and fallback guy Romney is on life support; Huckabee beat Ailes’ prince Willy Mitt in the south, helping McCain. Cap’n Johnny may be a warmongering Bush-hugging boob, but he didn’t come with the endorsement of the crazy talkers and fringe religious nuts; another indication that sane conservatives are taking steps to reclaim the Republican Party.
Okay, I’ve heard three theories of why the Right-Wing Talkers, et al, have come out against McCain. Theory A says that they are fully aware that their endorsement is toxic these days; like Nixon, who once said he’d be for or against someone, depending on what did the most good, they are slamming McCain hoping that naïve independents and even liberals might think, ‘Hey, Limbaugh hates McCain – must mean he’s an alright guy!’ The GOP desperately needs the outside help this year as their quarreling base isn’t enough to get any national candidate elected, and the opposition is energized with candidates they’re rallying around enthusiastically. Theory B claims that the fundies and bloviators are enraged because a President McCain will owe them nothing and consequently they’ll have no power to influence the White House if he’s elected. Worse, McCain might very well bring back the FCC Fairness rule, effectively putting many of them out of business. Theory C extrapolates that the Right-Wing Media and the Christopublicans thrive when a Dem is president; their biggest ratings and money donations came when Bill Clinton was in the Oval Office. Besides, then they have a Democrat to blame for the next four years and hope their followers forget the utter mind-numbing failure of the past eight under the Bush Republicans.
Whatever it is, the GOP is in shambles and the smart money is gravitating to the Dems as the neocon flag is trampled to the ground. These days, getting a Republican to confess they are a neocon is almost as difficult as getting a Democrat to admit they were a liberal back in the heyday of Ronald Reagan.
– Although I have some issues with her, and certainly not that she’s acting like a politician or her gender, the Tattler is not a knee-jerk Hillary-hater – how can you hate a woman who at certain angles reminds you of Shirley Jones as Ma Partridge when she smiles? – but I think one of the major components of the thinly-disguised He-Man Hillary-Haters Club has to do with the fact that a lot of these Big Media Boy Journalists are young enough that she reminds them of their mother – the one from which they have yet to successfully sever the apron strings. Grown men don’t fear or loathe Sen. Clinton, but the Media Kids wearing their new Men’s Warehouse suits, untested in the world outside of groveling for rank in the classroom, chat room or newsroom, still feel the need for some teenage rebellion against dear old Mom with a few snippy smacks at Hillary, utilizing what aging sexist jackass Chris Matthews would indulgently giggle was ‘towel-snapping locker room’ humor. I don’t know what locker rooms the onerous Hardball host hangs out in (or airport stalls, for that matter), but where I grew up, you’d get your ass kicked for snapping some other guy with a towel – that’s silly stuff for bumptious whitey weekend-warrior golfers who fake-macho brag on themselves endlessly, smoke foot-long compensatory cigars, and have unresolved manhood issues. (Yeah, just like Rush Limbaugh.) Monday morning, they’re back at the cubicle tapping safe opinions and newsy irrelevancies into a laptop, bending over and spreading ‘em for the boss, and desperately fearing everyone above them on the office totem pole. They’ve never been closer to hard physical labor than a summer break spent working at a fast-food stand, nor to poverty than disdainfully giving a buck to a homeless guy to get rid of him, nor to human violence and its consequences than a paint-ball skirmish. They are frustrated yuppie Hemingway’s ground into yellow mush by a corporate paycheck and a 30-year mortgage, whose wife won’t let them drink and mother won’t let them swear. They pour all of their resentment at their sapped dreams of masculinity into the persona of Hillary Clinton, a safer target than their contumelious female relatives who might send them to their room without dinner or make them sleep on the couch.
That said, the logic of supporting Hillary Clinton’s candidacy went something like this: She’s an experienced leader who’s seen it all and knows how to beat the Republicans in November, and she’ll slaughter wet-behind-the-ears naïf Barack Obama on Super Tuesday. At least, that WAS the logic a couple of months ago. Obama didn’t run a particularly nasty campaign against Hillary, yet he came out with a few more delegates than she did, and won in some snowball states like Connecticut, Colorado, Kansas and Minnesota where the nice caucasian lady was supposed to have had a substantial edge, in all winning thirteen states to Hillary’s eight. Obama also raised $32 million last month while Hill was forced to loan her campaign $5 mil of her own money, and some of her senior staff are working without pay. (Shades of the recently departed Giuliani.) The new Clinton meme is that this will be a tough fight, perhaps all the way to the Dem convention floor. The only thing is, if beating the supposedly inexperienced Obama — who, we’ve been assured by the Clinton campaign, can’t possibly handle the big bad Republicans in the general election — is so hard for Hillary, what does this portend for her battle against the GOP candidate in the fall? Just asking.
– Now the notorious Obama Girl, model Amber Lee Ettinger, has claimed she was talked into appearing in a bikini by some sleazy men, and said she felt “like a dork” dancing around scantily-clad in the popular videos, according to Robin Morgan of the Women’s’ Media Center. Right. I saw her pop up in interviews on cable news where she didn’t mention any of this and she now has a burgeoning show-biz career from her OG vids; I’ve also heard she’s inked a lucrative contract to appear in TV ads for an Internet company. Why she’s now renouncing the videos that got her started is a mystery for the ages, but she’s got one mark of the D-List celebrity down – gnawing on the hand that helped her up from obscurity.
The Tattlesnake – Super Tuesday Rundown in the Happy Year of the Yellow Rat Edition
McCain is Able? Hyper Hillary-Haters and an Obamanation
– Oh, how the mighty have fallen:John McCain winning big on Super Tuesday shows how much influence the Right-Wing Noise Machine and the Christopublicans have lost, if it ever had much to begin with. Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Hugh Hewitt, James Dobson and the whole motley crew put it on the line and came out four-square against McCain, telling their audiences to vote against him, yet McCain cleared the decks in most of the big states, and racked up enough delegates to nearly make him the nominee. Fox News favorites Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson have dropped out and fallback guy Romney is on life support; Huckabee beat Ailes’ prince Willy Mitt in the south, helping McCain. Cap’n Johnny may be a warmongering Bush-hugging boob, but he didn’t come with the endorsement of the crazy talkers and fringe religious nuts; another indication that sane conservatives are taking steps to reclaim the Republican Party.
Okay, I’ve heard three theories of why the Right-Wing Talkers, et al, have come out against McCain. Theory A says that they are fully aware that their endorsement is toxic these days; like Nixon, who once said he’d be for or against someone, depending on what did the most good, they are slamming McCain hoping that naïve independents and even liberals might think, ‘Hey, Limbaugh hates McCain – must mean he’s an alright guy!’ The GOP desperately needs the outside help this year as their quarreling base isn’t enough to get any national candidate elected, and the opposition is energized with candidates they’re rallying around enthusiastically. Theory B claims that the fundies and bloviators are enraged because a President McCain will owe them nothing and consequently they’ll have no power to influence the White House if he’s elected. Worse, McCain might very well bring back the FCC Fairness rule, effectively putting many of them out of business. Theory C extrapolates that the Right-Wing Media and the Christopublicans thrive when a Dem is president; their biggest ratings and money donations came when Bill Clinton was in the Oval Office. Besides, then they have a Democrat to blame for the next four years and hope their followers forget the utter mind-numbing failure of the past eight under the Bush Republicans.
Whatever it is, the GOP is in shambles and the smart money is gravitating to the Dems as the neocon flag is trampled to the ground. These days, getting a Republican to confess they are a neocon is almost as difficult as getting a Democrat to admit they were a liberal back in the heyday of Ronald Reagan.
– Although I have some issues with her, and certainly not that she’s acting like a politician or her gender, the Tattler is not a knee-jerk Hillary-hater – how can you hate a woman who at certain angles reminds you of Shirley Jones as Ma Partridge when she smiles? – but I think one of the major components of the thinly-disguised He-Man Hillary-Haters Club has to do with the fact that a lot of these Big Media Boy Journalists are young enough that she reminds them of their mother – the one from which they have yet to successfully sever the apron strings. Grown men don’t fear or loathe Sen. Clinton, but the Media Kids wearing their new Men’s Warehouse suits, untested in the world outside of groveling for rank in the classroom, chat room or newsroom, still feel the need for some teenage rebellion against dear old Mom with a few snippy smacks at Hillary, utilizing what aging sexist jackass Chris Matthews would indulgently giggle was ‘towel-snapping locker room’ humor. I don’t know what locker rooms the onerous Hardball host hangs out in (or airport stalls, for that matter), but where I grew up, you’d get your ass kicked for snapping some other guy with a towel – that’s silly stuff for bumptious whitey weekend-warrior golfers who fake-macho brag on themselves endlessly, smoke foot-long compensatory cigars, and have unresolved manhood issues. (Yeah, just like Rush Limbaugh.) Monday morning, they’re back at the cubicle tapping safe opinions and newsy irrelevancies into a laptop, bending over and spreading ‘em for the boss, and desperately fearing everyone above them on the office totem pole. They’ve never been closer to hard physical labor than a summer break spent working at a fast-food stand, nor to poverty than disdainfully giving a buck to a homeless guy to get rid of him, nor to human violence and its consequences than a paint-ball skirmish. They are frustrated yuppie Hemingway’s ground into yellow mush by a corporate paycheck and a 30-year mortgage, whose wife won’t let them drink and mother won’t let them swear. They pour all of their resentment at their sapped dreams of masculinity into the persona of Hillary Clinton, a safer target than their contumelious female relatives who might send them to their room without dinner or make them sleep on the couch.
That said, the logic of supporting Hillary Clinton’s candidacy went something like this: She’s an experienced leader who’s seen it all and knows how to beat the Republicans in November, and she’ll slaughter wet-behind-the-ears naïf Barack Obama on Super Tuesday. At least, that WAS the logic a couple of months ago. Obama didn’t run a particularly nasty campaign against Hillary, yet he came out with a few more delegates than she did, and won in some snowball states like Connecticut, Colorado, Kansas and Minnesota where the nice caucasian lady was supposed to have had a substantial edge, in all winning thirteen states to Hillary’s eight. Obama also raised $32 million last month while Hill was forced to loan her campaign $5 mil of her own money, and some of her senior staff are working without pay. (Shades of the recently departed Giuliani.) The new Clinton meme is that this will be a tough fight, perhaps all the way to the Dem convention floor. The only thing is, if beating the supposedly inexperienced Obama — who, we’ve been assured by the Clinton campaign, can’t possibly handle the big bad Republicans in the general election — is so hard for Hillary, what does this portend for her battle against the GOP candidate in the fall? Just asking.
– Now the notorious Obama Girl, model Amber Lee Ettinger, has claimed she was talked into appearing in a bikini by some sleazy men, and said she felt “like a dork” dancing around scantily-clad in the popular videos, according to Robin Morgan of the Women’s’ Media Center. Right. I saw her pop up in interviews on cable news where she didn’t mention any of this and she now has a burgeoning show-biz career from her OG vids; I’ve also heard she’s inked a lucrative contract to appear in TV ads for an Internet company. Why she’s now renouncing the videos that got her started is a mystery for the ages, but she’s got one mark of the D-List celebrity down – gnawing on the hand that helped her up from obscurity.