"You Want A Job, Right?" cont...

Nov 7th, 2011
by F. Grey Parker NSFW

Cain accuser Sharon Bialek via the LA Times

Considering the conservative establishment's race to double down on their defense of Herman Cain after today's explosive revelations, one needs to wonder whether, perhaps, the GOP front-runner might not actually be doing even better had he actually raped someone.

The only accuser to come forward publicly, Sharon Bialek, is a lifelong Republican and a Tea Party supporter. Not good enough. For those in the GOP elite who have been so desperate to, as Ann Coulter notably intoned, prove that their "blacks are better," any allegation against Cain must be met with a savage response. Its veracity is of no consequence. After all, the GOP was just on the verge of showing us all how open minded they are.

We'd already listened, this afternoon, to the world's foremost overweight, balding, multi-millionaire liar and doctor-shopping, pill-popping drug-fiend as he lowered himself to previously unsuspected depths. We'd also heard that slicked back little GOP-pimp and Nerf-football-enthusiast they call Sean Hannity dismiss the allegations with a big 'so what.'

I genuinely thought it could not get much worse. Silly me. I was wrong. There was still plenty of broadcast day left.

The sputtering shit-bag known as Dick Morris charged onto the Murdoch Device to smear Cain accuser Sharon Bialek further. She's a "gold digger." She "wants money." She wants "a book, a movie, a film deal, a spread in Playboy, who knows?" By the way, Morris went out of his way to make sure Fox viewers knew that Ms. Bialek has "an out of wedlock child."

That bit, in particular, is as venomous as anything I have ever heard. The GOP, the ban-abortion-and-even-contraception party, is now sending its media heavyweights to use Ms. Bialek's embrace of the challenge of single motherhood, rather than choosing to terminate her pregnancy, against her.



Hannity couldn't resist the chance to outdo his afternoon antics. The graphic behind his introduction to footage of this afternoon's presser reads "Anatomy Of A Smear Campaign."



Morris apparently stuck around the vermin-ridden filth that is Fox studios to get a chance to repeat his "Playboy spread" slur. Hannity made sure to plug Morris' children's book at the top of the segment. I shit you not. Again, Morris says "this woman is in search of money." 



As I said to a colleague earlier, after all the years that the GOP paraded and manipulated the case of Paula Jones in an attempt to teach us how much "character matters," this propaganda is beyond reason.

The institutionalization of situational ethics is now more damning for the GOP than anything of which Cain is accused.

Remember, women of the GOP, it's not good enough for you to prove your pro-life position through action, vote with your party and also act on behalf of your party's causes. You have to let the men around you do and say whatever they want, whenever they want, no matter how disgusting it may be.

After all, baby, you really are only good for "a Playboy spread" if they turn on you.

Dick Morris, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity say so.

Ann Coulter Might Be A Monkey...

Aug 18th, 2011

... as this is so clearly the intellectual equivalent of throwing poo. Regarding the riots in England:

"Mobs are always the same -- destructive, left-wing and without any clear cause."

After my little argument with Jonah last week, I did have a nagging suspicion that the mouth-breathers were going to make him appear relatively sane in short order.

Reading Around

Jan 14th, 2011

It seems clear that Jared Loughner is profoundly mentally ill. 

However, to suggest that because his worldview is warped a discussion about it's influence upon him is not germane is ridiculous. 

In a column that I can only describe as exposing an outlook of detachment bordering on delusion, the NY Times' David Brooks expresses incredible shock that we have engaged in any discussion of the shooter's possible politics:

"Other themes from Loughner’s life fit the rampage-killer profile. He saw himself in world historical terms. He appeared to have a poor sense of his own illness (part of a condition known as anosognosia). He had increasingly frequent run-ins with the police. In short, the evidence before us suggests that Loughner was locked in a world far removed from politics as we normally understand it."

Andrew Sullivan's responses are spot-on:

"...why, one has to ask, does this person with mental illness, carefully select for assassination an already targeted and demonized congresswoman, rather than, say, a supermarket, or a workplace, or a school? We don't know precisely yet - but it sure is relevant to ask that question. Why not shoot up the animal shelter he was fired from? Or the classroom he was banished from? In fact, it is a kind of bizarre suppression to avoid the obviously political fact of the target Loughner selected."

Indeed. There are 541 members of the senate and the house (including the house's 6 non-voting members). What were the odds that one of the 20 members targeted with gun-sights on the infamous Palin poster would be nearly killed in an act of gun violence by mere coincidence? 

"I find this notion that in real time we should not even be discussing or airing or debating the political and rhetorical climate that preceded this to be a dangerous piety. Airing the question of how public culture affects the disturbed mind is not just legitimate in this case, but vital, in ways that Brooks of all people should understand. David is a very shrewd analyst of culture, of why it matters, of how we are all connected - and yet, suddenly, this one young man exists in a total vacuum, where politics and culture do not exist.

Such a place does not exist - however much some would now like it to."