I took a long drive from Austin up north to Dallas and beyond on the I-35 corridor and usually listen to my own music or at best FM music stations. Since last 2008 I have taken more than a passing interest in American politics and actually follow the news. On a whim, I changed to AM radio and the only station that came up passing Waco was some station that was featuring Rush Limbaugh. Once that ended, it was somebody else, I think Neil Boorst / Hannity or something. Same thing while coming back it was Hannity followed by Levin and on some other station there was Savage. I don’t know how I missed Beck
The Nutjob machine was really in full force and has completely engulf the airwaves. As a citizen of India living in the US, my first reaction ( to para phrase Churchill) Never in the Recent History of Mankind has so much Bile / Anger been spewed by so few on so many.
I was appalled at the venom that the right wing machine is throwing at Obama. These are all perpetrated under the guise of attacking his policies. But the hate is visceral and vicious as much as it is personal. Any topic of the day gets converted to an attack on Obama.
One of the above idiots was talking about Tiger Wood’s conference and he said that Clinton was never this sincere in his apology nor was Obama this skillful in answering questions and that Obama has not had a press conference since last summer.
I thought that all of them might pop an artery or their heart or their lung with such hate. I have heard that you can’t fool all the people all the time but these guys seem to be doing it for quite a while.
Is there an antidote to this?