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Twilight of the Asshelmets
Last November’s glorious Election Day Rout has obviously had many laudable effects on our country, but one of the most viscerally satisfying has been the increasing marginalization and irrelevancy of the Republican Punditocracy. This gang of shrill, vindictive right-wing barking heads has seen their influence on the nation’s political agenda drop precipitously. As the American viewing/voting public belatedly wakes up to the fact that the past twelve years of Republican electoral dominance have been an unmitigated disaster for this country on every conceivable level, they’re beginning to turn on the lying whores who sold them this rancid bill of goods in the first place.
Fox News, the Politburo for undiluted Republican propaganda, has seen its ratings stall badly, relative to other cable news networks, in the past year. And politicians are finally beginning to notice. Just this week, John Edwards essentially told Murdoch’s Morlocks to go fuck themselves:
“We believe there’s just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending they’re objective,” said Jonathan Prince, Edwards’ deputy campaign manager.
Perhaps in frustration over their increasing irrelevancy, the gasbag pundits at “We Distort, You Comply” have taken to such desperate tactics as intentionally misquoting the results of their own polls and getting into screaming matches with one another on the air. I eagerly await the next level of spectacle that will inevitably ensue when the coverage of this event wears off. Is it too much to hope for to see O’Reilly and Geraldo breaking chairs over each other’s heads next time?
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