“Another Greenville, another Magic Mart, Jeffer, grab your fiddle… So, pop quiz: What do old-school R.E.M. and Sarah Palin have in common? They’ve both sung paeans to “Little America,” or as Governor Palin rather awkwardly put it recently, the “pro-America areas of this great nation.” In case you somehow missed what she was trying to get at, NC GOP candidate Robin Hayes said it even more plainly: “Liberals hate real Americans that work and achieve and believe in God.” Or consider Minnesota freakshow Michele Bachmann, soon after deeming Senator and Michelle Obama enemies of the people: “I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out if they are pro-America or anti-America.“
Now, I realize the once-powerful conservative movement is now entering the late, terminal stages of its malignancy, that these floundering insults and echoes of McCarthy are all just part of the right-wing death rattle, and that it’s probably best just to look away from their interminable gesticulating and shrieking while the right melts away into electoral oblivion. But, really, eff these people. I’m so utterly sick of these conservative assholes wrapping themselves in our flag every time their narrowness and stupidity is exposed before all the world. America is so much more than the pathetic litany of grievances and bigotries these jokers trot out every time their flank is exposed. And if they truly loved America as much as they claim to, they’d know this, and stop embarrassing us all by conflating their ignorant and unprincipled antipathies with what’s good and true in our national life.
The consul a horse. Jefferson, I think they’re lost.
Nice. Rally around the leaders, it’s the mediator season!
Well put Mr. Murphy. It IS difficult to watch, the death-throes of the right-wing nut jobs, but, as you so eloquently put, F&*K THOSE JERKS! I’m actually getting physically ill watching them question the “American-ness” of half the populace. Who do they think they are? I try so hard not to get angry, but their tiresome rhetoric makes it almost impossible to remain calm and quiet. Thanks for maintining your blog and somehow staying lucid and thoughtful in the face of such hatred and bigotry.
Aaron in O’side, CA
What’s the difference between a Hockey Mom and a pitbull?
Lipstick… and $150,000 worth of clothing and accessories.