Normally, it is out of patriotic duty to the working class that I expose the Right-wing stooges of Fox News and talk radio for the ignorant slobs they are. Today, however, it will be a true pleasure to destroy one of the vilest Right-wing mouthpieces ever to foul up the airwaves - Tammy Bruce.
Bruce was filling in for another Right-wing motor-mouth (i.e. Laura Ingraham) while she was on vacation. The conversation turned to First Lady Michelle Obama. When it did, Bruce turned appallingly vile:
Man, oh, man. That's who he's married to, what does that tell you? This is what we've got -- you know what we've got? We've got trash in the White House. Trash is a, is a thing that is color blind, it can cross all eco -- ecosocionomic kind of categories, you can work on Wall Street or work at the Wal-Mart. Trash are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy.
Now, before we explore the outright lack of class and dignity associated with badmouthing the First Lady on the free and public airwaves, let's do a little comparison shopping between these two ladies, shall we?
Tammy Bruce
-BA, Political Science
University of Southern California
-Fox News contributor
Michelle Obama
-BA, Sociology
Princeton University
-Juris Doctor, Harvard Law School
-Executive Director, Chicago Office of Public Allies
-Associate Dean of Student Services, University of Chicago
-First Lady of The United States of America
I may be a little biased in my assessment, but it seems to me that Mrs. Obama has Tammy Bruce whipped forward, backward, left and right where this comparison is concerned. She is more educated, intelligent, accomplished and classy than this Right-wing hag. And you know what? That's precisely what infuriates these people about the Obamas.
Forget the differences in public policy that conservatives like Tammy Bruce have with the Obamas. Forget the fact that their taxes may be raised from 35% to 39.6% in the 2010 year budget (because God knows, they can't possibly live life without that extra 4.6%). Forget their petty differences on issues ranging from stem cell research (Not important in the least - well, not unless you want to cure cancer, Alzheimer's Disease...trivial stuff like that...) to health care (Because really, wouldn't it be more Christ-like to keep our taxes low while the poor just get sick and die?).
The Obamas are intelligent, accomplished, and successful African-Americans who are setting public policy in this country - and it drives the Right nuts.
That is the crux of the matter here. Conservatives have always had a sore spot for the progress of minorities in this country. Hell, Bruce herself was unanimously censured by the National Organization of Women for racially insensitive comments made during the O.J Simpson murder trial. Rush Limbaugh was canned at ESPN for ignorantly suggesting that Donovan McNabb was viewed as a great quarterback because the media was so eager to see a Black quarterback succeed (Evidently, the Pro Bowl voters were in on the conspiracy - as McNabb was voted to that elite team for five straight seasons from 2000-2004). The idiot John Ziegler routinely tries to portray African-American supporters as uneducated and brainwashed by the media to account for their support of President Obama during the 2008 Presidential Election (No, it couldn't possibly have been eight years of inequitable treatment at the hands of a Republican White House and congress...nope, no way...).
Now, it is patently obvious superior individuals are running circles around the failed ideology of the Right - and they are predictably screaming like petulant children. Fine, I say - scream to your little hearts' content. I don't care if you seek therapy for your insecurities or buy a penis pump to improve your self-esteem. But don't you dare insult the First Lady of the United States of America like you did today. If you do, you can count on me and every progressive like me to wait in the tall grass for you. That means calls to have Bruce fired from Fox News - which are already in the works as I write this. That means journalistic hit pieces from every angle aimed directly at anyone who dares to launch insults of this classless nature at one who demands your respect. That means protests and boycotts of sponsors who allow smear scum like you to remain on the air.
These are not threats, Right-wingers. They are promises. Clean up your act and keep the dissent at least moderately civil - or our side will give you a media war from Hell you won't believe.
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