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Sunday, August 14, 2011

How we know that Rick Perry's ascension to the presidency has already been decided
Posted by Jill | 4:00 PM
We knew that the media were already in love with Rick Perry. Even though we've already had a theocratic moron from Texas with a full head of hair and a glad-handing manner and cowboy boots in the White House, one who took control of a country with a surplus from eight years of peace and prosperity and wrecked it with tax cuts and wars that go nowhere, the men of the media loves them some good hair and cowboy boots. And it wouldn't matter if Barack Obama were somehow able to get unemployment down to 4% in the next fourteen months, these guys want them some cowboy and they're going to get it.

Bear witness:



Let's repeat David Gregory about four minutes in, shall we?
You know, Perry talked about potentially seceding from the union. You think that's extreme. Well people on the other side think that introducing health care reform for the whole country is akin to European

And there you have what passes for punditry: Talking about the possibility of secession is EXACTLY THE SAME as thinking that people who are poor should have the same right to health care as the rich do.

Coming next: Rick Perry's saying that there's nothing we can do to fix things other than to just pray to Jesus is the very definition of strong leadership.

There's nothing to do with David Gregory except throw our hands up in the sky, say "Hasa diga eebowai", and link to some Driftglass Photochoppin' here and here.

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Anonymous The Heretik said...
Saw that David Gregory clip. Snipped the good part for This Moment in the Media.

Oy,just oy.
8/14/11, 11:23 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Yep, "both sides do it!" But let's face it: one side does it a hell of a lot more...

...But I guess it would take more brain cells then David Gregory has to point that out....
8/15/11, 3:16 PM  
Blogger Batocchio said...
You know, Perry talked about potentially seceding from the union. You think that's extreme. Well people on the other side think that introducing health care reform for the whole country is akin to European socialism...

What does this even mean?!? This is incoherent even as hippie-punching! The people who support secession are right-wingers! The people who denounce universal health care are also right-wingers! David Gregory has just effectively said that the far right has some crazy ideas – but the left is just as bad because the far right (and apparently, David Gregory) thinks the left has crazy ideas, too! Ideas, which, as you point out, have proven popular and successful with most of the industrialized world. Oh, and let's not forget that the reason Perry was pimping crazy idea #1 (secession) is largely because he's also pimping crazy idea #2 (socialism).

Perhaps Gregory just misspoke here, but I have to doubt that, because he mentions Perry and then says "people on the other side." This clip really does perfectly encapsulate the Beltway's knee-jerk false equivalencies, as well as Gregory's personal idiocy and craven hackdom.
8/16/11, 2:06 AM  
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