Following his outburst during Barack Obama’s speech on healthcare this week, the far-right—which is desperate for a new national face--is now upholding Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) as a brave hero for allegedly is saying what other people are truly thinking. Never mind that Wilson’s loud claim that current reform initiatives will include coverage for illegal immigrants has been soundly debunked.
Far more noteworthy was the quick (and predictable) rush to Wilson’s defense by longtime GOP flacks such as Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity who in-between tired conspiracy theories involving ACORN are painting him as a poor victim of liberalism – not to mention yet another example of what the Republican Party apparently represents these days.
As such, if Wilson and other ideo-nuts like him (e.g. Bachmann, Palin, Gingery, etc) are truly such examples, the GOP is in far, far worse shape that I have ever seen it as it steadily tracks harder right in some sad, demented vision quest to find itself.
Behold the face of the GOP today after it and its enablers on Fox and talk radio were finally, finally publicly called out by Obama last night for their fear-mongering, dunderheaded (I’m looking at you, ex-Governor Palin), obstructionist bullshit over health reform initiatives.
Watching Sean Hannity play the frail flower after the speech was particularly amusing – namely, in that it hardly could have been more pathetic.
About an hour ago, I listened to Barack Obama’s horrifying speech to American schoolkids on highly socialist themes such as hard work, personal responsibility, respect for others, and goal-setting and could not be more concerned about our children being indoctrinated into a brand-new dawn of the Hitler Youth.
In this recent photo that Rahm Emmanuel doesn’t want you to see,
President Obama is shown with fourth-grader (and freshly-minted child fascist)
Annie Lopez of Harry S. Truman Elementary in Akron, Ohio.
Throughout the past summer (most noticeably during August’s often bizarre Town Halls on health care policy which prompted some to arrive onsite with guns) the tone of right-wing media outlets and pundits against Barack Obama reached a fever pitch - beginning with valid concerns about Federal spending before quickly blazing into ultra-paranoid rhetoric about Obama being a closet fan of Stalin, Hitler and (apparently) Lex Luthor.
Now with next week’s televised speech by Obama to the nation’s schoolkids—for which viewing is optional—Howard Beale wannabes like Glenn Beck (whose grip on sanity seems to fade each day, not that his fans seem to mind) are bleating words like “indoctrination” and “brainwashing” as parents in various states are lobbying their school districts to boycott Obama’s address which covers implicitly Marxist ideas like kids working hard, and taking responsibility for their own education.
Sure, the nation will survive Obama’s speech—as it did his earth-shattering remarks to Notre Dame grads last May—but then I wonder what insane woobie the right will cling to next? More birther horseshit? Runors that the Obama girls are a product of human cloning experiments at Area 51?
Absurd or not, what concerns me most is that this brand of ultra-paranoid rhetoric is that it seems to be spreading from the grimy corners from which it spawned into the greater media. And as such, that it will prompt some lunatic fueled by Glenn Beck (or Sean Hannity or Michelle Malkin) to take a shot at Obama in the name of “watering the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
God forbid this should ever occur to Barack Obama (or any president).
Yet if such an incident were to happen, it will be those in right-wing talk radio and other hyper-conservative media outlets who will have enabled it by pouring their rhetorical gas into a crowded room, waiting for someone to strike a match, then acting shocked and appalled when a fire breaks out.
No one has to like Obama or his policies, but I have never seen such insane and angry bile spouted at an American president in my adult life. And I am sorely worried that it will lead to something tragic.
