Waiting for my wife outside the doctor's office today in Bayside, NYC. My tuning button finger punched up 770, WABC radio, and, like a sore spot on the inside cheek that you grimace and just have to keep biting, or the car accident that you cringe and just have to look at thrice; I must admit I kept cringing and pressing that button again and again, landing on 770 for more torture.
Kudlow, then Crowley, and Limbaugh commercials...oh myyyy!!!
It was horrible, and yet I just couldn't resist hearing how bald-faced the other side was lying; what the general messaging was:
Kudlow had a panel of four Repubs on, and two were alleged business and economic experts. All were decrying Obama as a big Govt socialist, who is spending at an unprecedented level, and who exponentially increased the deficit, and the size of the federal govt in general. Of course there were no challenges, as all five were on the same side, and all were selling the same snake oil and tiger testicle powder. What was the most sickening to me was the alleged chops that Kudlow has: a regular on CNBC, and like Ryan, a man dubbed an expert and serious thinker. And yet, there he was, lying and stating things he and his guests just have to know is false.
Then the top of the hour brought Crowley, whining about Obama and all of the "kooks" as she calls them: Dems who will "do anything", "stop at nothing", "every dirty trick in the book" to keep power. (So there I sat, dumbfounded, shut the fuck up and cringing at the big hot cup of Rovian projection being foisted upon me. And I thought I was drinking Starbucks bold!). She laid it on thick, apparently just another show, just another ordinary day for her and her hatred of all that is Obama and dem. She of course used the epithet "democrat", avoiding the ending "ic" as if her career and money depended on it (they probably do!). She actually stated that President Obama and his allies want high unemployment, foreclosures and misery everywhere, because that is all part of their plan to fundamentally remake our country into a lesser socialist nation. INCREDIBLE!!!
Of course, my only respite was a Mets game, or back to 770 for more Crowley and a refreshing Limbaugh commercial, where he promised a free laptop computer to some lucky twitter follower....and a first class bashing of VP Biden.
I just wanted to share with you this small taste I got today of opposition research, and how ugly and wrong and dishonest so many in the right wing (er, ah, excuse me, I mean, middle-ground fair and balanced) media are. There are opinions and there are facts. The facts back up my beliefs, and not the ones that I heard on 770 today.
Sorry, Mitt, but there are objective facts; there are objective truths. There is no pretending that all truth is relative and subject to your god-like approval or decree.
My day brightened considerably when my wife returned to the car, having engaged her doctor in political banter to see if he was possibly a Dem and maybe receptive to taking a few flyers advertising my book, Aldus Shrugged.
His answer, in his heavy Israeli accent: "I'm 100% Republican." He then told her to tell me to come and talk with him, and he will change my mind.
Not a chance, doc!
Physician, heal thyself...Oh, and first, do no harm!
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