Joe Klein, as we're increasingly seeing, has signed a Wheaties endorsement deal and fallen off the Straight Talk Express. Big time. Via Kevin Drumm's spiffy new digs at Mother Jones, we get the following gem from Klein's latest post on Time Magazine's Swampland blog.
Klein is not impressed with the Scare Fest in St. Paul: the rampaging mob out to kill the Liberal Elite monster that threatens the countryside. He's seen this horror show too many times.
So have we. But it is Saturday night. Maybe it's time for a horror show.
More for the brave past the fold...
From Kevin's post:
TORCHES AND PITCHFORKS....Joe Klein on the GOP's attempt to play that old time gospel one more time:
Maybe I'm getting old, maybe it's that I've seen this act so often before, maybe it's that the people I talk to when I go out on the road really are having a harder time paying for things like health care, gasoline and college tuition, but I'm finding the Republican attempts to derail the conversation from the actual state of the country really depressing and disgraceful this year. They practice Orwellian politics of the crudest sort. They are trying to sell a big lie — that the election is about the social issues of the 1960s, or Barack Obama's patriotism or his eloquence, or the "angry left," when it's really about turning toward a more moderate path after the ideological radicalism and malfeasance of the past eight years.
Drum points out that, well, when you're right, you're right, and it's sadly time to admit that Joe Klein henceforth is no longer a Jokeline.
But this is a wonderfully evocative image for a Saturday night, a night of the week that many of us associate with cheap horror films that include, as Kevin so rightly points out, their share of torches and pitchforks. Let's look at a few
The moments of horror...
Zombies....
and other horrible sights
Well, we will not be frightened. We will laugh in the face of danger. In respect for common decency, I haven't included the most horrible shots, those from last week's horror fest in St. Paul. But with proper cross cutting, they may become tolerable.
Who will be the first to show the mob in St. Paul going for their torches?