If there's anything conservatives are good at, it's faux-trage, the art of the hissy fit. You know, standing up for a dead-beat rancher who's been stiffing the tax payers for years - until he reveals he's an unvarnished racist. Or, you know, attacking Harry Reid for calling out the Koch brothers for blatantly spending billions to buy the government they want. These are the same people, after all, who are fanatically determined to protect the unborn - while they slash food stamps - and are so concerned about their freedom they need guns everywhere to protect themselves. (And they whine about the President having a 'manhood problem'?) And let's not go anywhere near David Brooks simpering about being a quasi-Marxist.
But let's take a moment to review the case of George Will, Professional Finger-Wagger at Impropriety, official grumpy pundit to FOX News, and Guardian of Standards. Digby has his number today.
Oh dear me. Fox News superstar George Will is very offended. He’s calling for the smelling salts over that rude young man Barack Obama’s “adolescent” rhetoric. (Obama used the word “stinkburger,” a word so vile that poor George practically collapsed onto his fainting couch.)
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) had recently released his budget, so Obama expressed his disapproval by calling it, for the benefit of his academic audience, a “meanwich” and a “stinkburger.”
Try to imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan talking like that. It is unimaginable that those grown-ups would resort to japes that fourth-graders would not consider sufficiently clever for use on a playground.
Heavens to betsy! What will that childish miscreant do next? Tell a U.S. senator to go f**k himself? Oh no, sorry, that was Vice President Dick Cheney, whose return to the halls of power was widely celebrated among the denizens of the Beltway as a sign that the “grown-ups were back in town.” (And said “grown-up” was still snorting and high-fiving to his buddies about it years later.)
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