Nattering Nabobs Of Nonsense
27 October 2006 8:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
Nattering Nabobs Of Nonsense
guest post by Ed Encho
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
-H. L. Mencken
Following up on the ludicrously over the top scare tactics and fear mongering of the nearly satirical RNC paean to Osama commercial “The Stakes” the second prong of the GOP campaign to rally the flock by negatively reinforcing their willful ignorance and preying on their ample gullibility was launched this week with a gathering of authoritarian conservative talk radio and cable television propagandists for a special White House pow wow and broadcast session to get the talking points in order and to schmooze with members of the Bush-Rove-Cheney Axis of Evil cadre.
Ironically it was held in a tent, how very appropriate for a circus laden with clowns.
The stage was set for this week of ugliness of wrestling in a mosh pit filled with lies, racism, poking fun at people with diseases, gay bashing, fear mongering and outright lying when the reigning grand pig and sty king of the immoral swine that dominate the Republican party Rush Limbaugh himself came out to attack poor Michael J. Fox by calling into question his Parkinson’s Disease when he appeared in a prime time advertisement for a Democratic candidate. Missourian Claire McCaskill is running against ass kissing Bush sycophant and flaxen Republican rubber stamp Senator Jim Talent, a man most well known for having the fortuitous luck to slime his way to a Senate seat in a special election after former Attorney General, white supremacist sympathizer and notorious Calico cat hating religious zealot John Ashcroft lost to a dead man back in the good ole pre 9/11 days when the sane outnumbered those crazier than the shithouse rats who have multiplied exponentially ever since.
Limbaugh mocked the former American pop culture icon who rose to national celebrity status for his portrayal of the ultra cool Marty McFly in the ‘Back To The Future’ trilogy during the toxic and transformational period of the Reagan years when America became unstuck in time much like Kurt Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim and we have been lost in an increasingly savage wilderness unable to find our way home ever since that big bait and switch. The pigman shamelessly called out Fox as a phony who was obviously faking his disease while spewing his vitriolic nonsense to the ditto head dork army who in true loser fashion slaver at the feet of the big bully much like the Biff character who tormented Marty McFly across two centuries like a sloppy leg humping hellhoud. Shit, Limbaugh more than anyone else is the very definition of a fraud, a fat assed faux populist elitist who much like America’s even bigger fraud George W. Bush has been allowed to spin bullshit into gold for too long by a national media that is the greatest fake of all. Rush Limbaugh is proof that in America you can sell anything especially to social lepers seeking justification for their own moral failures by allowing themselves to be bathed in his words of bigotry and hate as though they were frolicking through the waters of Lourdes itself.
If there is a bigger degenerate in America today than the vicodin juiced freak in the booth then I am clueless as to who it is….other than the lumpen Republicans who give him credibility by appearing on his hate filled broadcasts and the low grade knuckle draggers who cling to his every word as though it comes down from the mountaintops.
If you want to trace the current poisoning of our national discourse the fall from grace began in allowing the pigman to spread his message of intolerance throughout the heartland by capitalizing on festering anger during the farm crisis. The reich wingers followed the model of prototypical radio demagogue Father Charles Coughlin and Limbaugh was the new and improved version. Any sane society would have marginalized him as the hatemonger and charlatan that he is.
Yet this festering sore on the ass of America is not only used by ruthless GOP apparatchik like Dick Cheney as the first venue of choice to preach to the angry right wing authoritarian army but even the mainstream media actually sanctions this anti-American, fifth columnist slob by allowing him to appear with the national sweetheart Katie Couric on the CBS evening news as a commentator. It is really a tough job to turn this thing around when this mean spirited propaganda pimp is somehow seen as some sort of bizarro spokesman for Amererican values.
That a thrice divorced, misogynist, racist, drug gobbling sex tourist who is unable to get an erection without pharmaceutical assistance and who is a sucking black hole of moral rot is held out to many as a beacon of American virtue is one of the greatest of all paradoxes of these strange and dangerous days.
And to combat the effectiveness and honesty of the stem cell issue that cuts to the heart of the same sort of regressive theocrats who wanted to draw and quarter Galileo Karl Rove is bringing in the heavy artillery for a counterattack. He has lined up washed up Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner who is now looking for work after losing his job on a 1-6 team and even Jesus (Caviezel) himself in a last ditch effort to re-ignite the fetus wars and coax forth the cave dwelling, anti-enlightenment red state Neanderthals from their caves and to the polls by spinning the stem cell message as though it were an endorsement of human cloning. Cloning in and of itself is a serious moral issue that will need to be addressed someday in the near future. Especially in a world in which transnational corporate execs are alreadly salivating over the prospects of being able to create legions of replicant meat slaves who don't ask questions and who are preprogrammed to not live long enough to become a burden on company health care costs. Yet this issue as with others of gravity is reduced to nothing more than a side show in the Rove carnival of perversion.
Another commercial featuring the above two as well as other marginal celebrities and local athletes set to air during game four of the World Series on Wednesday looks to get the juices flowing and counter the effects of the Fox-McCaskill ad. The inclusion of St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Jeff Suppan shows that not even there is no longer any refuge to be sought in baseball from those seeking to escape the creeping incursion of faith based politics into every corner of their lives. Fundamentalist Christianity actually has made substantial inroads into America’s game recently with many minor league teams and even some majors using ‘faith nights’ as a draw and even passing out bobble head dolls of religious figures like Jesus and Moses (now about that false idol thing….). The National League’s Colorado Rockies even went so far as to proclaim themselves to be
a Christian team which is a nice marketing ploy considering that Denver is only a short drive north from the Colorado Springs nexus of false prophecy where both James Dobson and Ted Haggard have set up base camp for their mega ministries and network of goat barn franchises from which they could spread their apostasy.
This is just more of the same old holy crap to get the dumbest of Americans to go out and vote against the self interests of themselves and their families in order to wage culture warfare for an administration whose strategists openly mock them in the most contemptuous of fashions and if you are inclined to actually believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ at face value abuse their blind faith in order to steal their souls for political gain.
But most of the yahoos have no idea on what the teachings of Christ actually are being as their trusting and seeking for answers made them susceptible to the vampires and parasites of the Religious Right and many of these good hearted, simplistic folk who see their worldview increasingly under assault from all of the evils of a monstrous military industrial-laissez faire-social Darwinist elitist infrastructure that has no qualms over grinding their bones to make it’s bread it is easy to understand how they are deceived by wolves in sheep’s clothing to espouse the vengeful phony Christianity of the ravenous wolves in sheep’s clothing Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Timothy LaHaye, John Hagee and James Dobson (and for that matter the vainglorious, pious asses of the Bush administration’s Faith Based Initiative Ministry of Scams) of the world.
I personally found it rather ironic and extremely humorous that Wednesday’s World Series game during which the Warner-Caviezel-Cloning ad was to air was rained out, perhaps it was God himself trying to wash away Rove’s latest load of anti-American blasphemous filth and rank bullshit. The lord after all works in mysterious ways.
