October 14, 2008
DAVID FRUM MORE LIKE DAVID SCUM HUR HUR
Quick background to this rant: Diva and I finally broke down and got cable. What with the upcoming election and all, it’s just dumb to have your finger off of the pulse of politics regardless of which way you vote in the end. Plus it would give us a chance to talk about the issues together and just enjoy more time together…so all in all, I was sold.
We’ve both started paying more attention to MSNBC, specifically the likes of Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow. Sure, my two or three right-wing critics will chime in with a “HAR HAR UR WATCHIN THEM LIBRUL SHOWZ IDJIT”, and that’s fine. I can still sleep at night without having witnessed the bluster and bullshit of the likes of many right-wing pundits.
And, like I’ve said before, the right-wing just doesn’t seem to get humor or satire unless a nonwhite or a hippie is being killed, and even then…it’s not funny. But the fact remains is that, for the most part, irony, satire, and humor are pretty much lost on such a dour bunch.
Which David Frum proved last night when he went on the Rachel Maddow Show to, presumably, perform a reverse-Jon Stewart-on-Crossfire, but it ended up being a full-douchebag-backfire.
I’m going to get my bias out of the way – I’ve never liked Frum. He’s always come across as nothing less than a syncophantic little Chris Kattan-looking ass-kiss who, by way of being a speechwriter for and author in favor of Bush, has essentially penned rationalizations for some of the worst policy the United States has seen in years, the aftermath of most of which we are now seeing come home to roost.
So his appearance on Maddow’s show thinking that he had any sort of moral authority to be bullying her around and telling her how she should run her game struck me as a bit…ballsy.
Not like huge swinging balls, mind you. More like tiny, shriveled, impotent ones belonging to someone who’d want to bully a woman over her show.
But, she stuck it out, completely calm and rational, and stuck to her initial point while he danced around the question using moves that would put Mikhail Baryshnikov to shame. I just find it funny that the same party that's spent so much time over the past two terms shouting down any opposition or constructive discussion in favor of talking points, discrimination, inflammatory language, threats, and base insults suddenly wants to have an enlightened, rational, mature discourse on politics. It's laughable.
I think I’m going to be watching her for a while.
Posted by Jake at October 14, 2008 11:16 AM
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