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| "You're Fire-crackered!" |
Michelle Malkin, who distinguished herself at CPAC by running away and more, has been a willing (and frequent, or so it seems) participant in the FOX "news" Seussical chants of "Boil that dust speck!, Boil that dust speck!". JA is right to call attention to it.
The chant leader, O'Reilly, is doing it even now. And he wallows in it in increasingly subtle ways. Everyone who says something 'outrageous' ought to be fired. The well-honed disrespect for the viewers, listeners, and readers is astounding. People aren't trusted to make up their own mind at all ("you decide"). They are mobilized to become an economic sniper team. (I'd say they are victims of a 'right-wing' TV culture that promotes "Your fired!" as the most important thing that a leader can say, but that would be unfair to them.)
Rosie must be aware that she's in their cross-hairs for a while now. They even run website polls on Fox or O'Reilly.com that include Rosie, asking something like, "Which liberals do you hate the most?". What could be the benefit of such data except to help them in aligning their maligning? They did, it should be noted, follow that poll up with "Which conservatives ...", but I had to feel that was an afterthought, perhaps even moreso given that the "culture" war is 'traditionalist'.
Anyway, she's gotten injected into the Halperin-Harris described 'freakshow' of bottomless political mockery for its own sake, now. Even though she's a comedianne and on what isn't much more than a popular gossip show, apparently she needs to 'control her message', or else!!! She's a good communicator - and she obviously is wonderfully committed to her children - but even Ronald Reagan, for all his communications gifts, didn't speak extemporaneously on 'hot topics'.
And in case you were in danger of taking it all too seriously, it's always a laugh to look at the glass houses of the stone throwers. In this clip, Obermann squeezes O'Reilly's ... flourish on the WWII massacre at Malmedy (it wanes as it goes on a bit too long, but this is some of Obermann at his best, viz. "the Sisyphus of morons, if you will").
Anyway, following MM's critique, here is what you associate with:
