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Thursday, December 15th, 2011- I predicted yesterday that if Ron Paul wins Iowa, the media will proclaim whoever comes in second the “real” winner. From CNN today: ” “If Paul wins, then whoever comes in second — assuming its Gingrich or Romney — will ‘win’ having beaten the other.”
- Also, Chris Wallace—who will be moderating the next GOP debate—says a Paul win “won’t count,” and would “discredit” Iowa voters.
- What political causes get the most money from the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent? You might be surprised.
- Breaking down the people who comment on year-end lists.
- Discussions like this one are why I like Reddit.
- The House debates SOPA today.
- Should you really change your oil every 3,000 miles? No, you really shouldn’t.
- Newt Gingrich, authoritarian.
Those stupid Iowa voters, not even knowing enough to do what their party leaders tell them to do.
The neoclowns (Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin) are officially in full panic mode over Ron Paul. At first they called him “kooky” and “nutty” — but now he’s “DANGEROUS.” What should be alarming to them is the fact that Paul’s strongest support comes from young people; the 20-30 something crowd, the college campuses. There’s a libertarian streak in this voting block and the GOP can’t stand it.
Ron Paul scares the shit out of the Republicrat establishment, and it shows.
Just keep repeating “Ron Paul can’t win, Ron Paul can’t win”, and maybe the people won’t “waste their vote” on a man with principles.
Just furthers my feeling that politics is now just another spectator sport / reality TV show. As they say in the NCAA Bowls, “Just because you were undefeated doesn’t mean you get a chance to be champion!” If we let every nutjob and crackpot to sneak in on such technicalities as ‘popular support’ and ‘majority vote’, where would we be?
I’ll also say, watching all the ‘serious’ candidates implode, the extent to which Gary Johnson was excluded saddens me. I think if they’d allowed him into more of the debates, he would’ve really started to gain interest about now. I’m not saying he would’ve had my vote, necessarily; I just liked what I saw so far, and am pissed that I didn’t get to hear more because he didn’t fit the producer’s cast of characters.
radley, here’s an article that might interest you discussing the NYPD’s efforts to control the local media through press credentialing:
http://gothamist.com/2011/12/15/inside_gothamists_absurd_struggle_to_get_nypd_press_passes.php
>> He believes so much in scaling back government involvement in peoples’ lives that he says if people choose not buy health care insurance — or even drink raw milk — they should be able to and suffer the consequences of their own actions, come what may.
Fascinating.
I’m still surprised you haven’t done an AMA. Your message seems to resonate with the reddit “hivemind” and I’m sure doing so would only add to your visibility.
“Ron Paul scares the shit out of the Republicrat establishment, and it shows.”
There’s definitely a sea change brewing in the GOP….
I think it took an economic meltdown, 50% poverty levels, mass unemployment and endless warfare to wake people up. A lot to endure, and to suffer, but hell, it worked.
To amplify on Boomshanka’s offering, a very telling quote from the article:
“The NYPD is a quasi-military operation,” Siegel says. “My experience is that most city agencies don’t like anyone looking over their shoulder and potentially criticizing them, especially law enforcement. And it could be a reluctance to be transparent within their own agency.” The veteran reporter I spoke with on background concurred: “They want to be completely in charge and control the flow of information.” Peter Bekker, consulting director at The New York Press Club, says his organization “Has for many years been very concerned with what is a decline in the spirit of cooperation between news organizations and the NYPD when it comes to helping the press understand the stories they’re reporting. That’s DCPI’s job, as I understand it.” (Emphasis mine – k.)
‘…helping the press understand’. I’d say the media understands quite well, particularly the new media that’s not dependent upon crumbs from police blotters. That all-too-cozy relationship has led to ‘credentialed journalists’ becoming little more than stenographers, particularly when it comes to issues like illegal drugs, just regurgitating the talking points that the Feds gave the locals to feed to their lapdog press.
Real journalism is taking place on the wild and wooly ‘Internets’, with plenty of angry questions being asked that the ‘credentialed journalists’ are too pee-their-pants scared of asking for fear of being cut off from those police blotter crumbs. It’s why I pay only a passing degree of interest on rare occasions that I watch TV Nooz; they never ask the hard questions anymore…
Wow. 51% of people mindlessly change their oil every 3,000 miles? This is why we can’t have nice things, people are stupid.
Why is it, when the establishment says something like “Paul can’t win Iowa” and the voters disagree, the voters are discredited? Didn’t the rise of the Tea Part make it clear the voters have had enough of authoritarian RINOs and Neo-Cons?
Sullum says that the drug war is failing.
I disagree. The drug war is only failing if one assumes that the goal of the war on drugs is to eliminate drugs and their social effects. I think that the real motivation behind the drug war can be seen in its negative social consequences.
The continual arrests of the poor and of minorities, the shattering of their careers, the disenfranchisement of convicted felons (felony drug possession often leads to disbarment from voting), and all of the awful downstream effects of these things are the whole point of the war. The drug war appeals to some voters precisely is because they know that 1. drug laws are guaranteed to be broken, and 2. drug laws are guaranteed to be enforced unequally.
The drug war is therefore a proxy class war, a kind of Jim Crow directed more broadly at minorities and the poor. Once we understand that, we can see why it persists: it has been a spectacular success.
I just checked the website on my 2002 Chevy Blazer. Turns out I’m supposed to change the oil every 3000 miles.
SOPA: some good suggestions about how to get the word out. Facebook and Google could go “black” for 24 hours in protest and supply a link for people to send Congress letters.
Of course, having all the porn tubes for offline in the same way might have a bigger impact (as suggested by others).
I checked the oil-change website, and it turns out the state of California is really terrible at coding a website.
I am again going to vote for Ron Paul just because the Republican Establishment told me not to. Can you imagine a politician holding fast to the principles upon which this nation was founded ? How very disgusting. Piss on the Establishment and Wallace. He is just another asshole who has sold his soul for a piece of the pie. Makes me want to puke!
List People: knittingwithdagmarandlaura.com is just a picture. +1 for the effort, but now I am disappoint.
I hope Ron Paul sticks it out to the bitter end this time. Be alert for local-level GOP rule-breaking, as it was a widespread and serious issue in 2004, as I saw first-hand in Nevada.
Should you really change your oil every 3,000 miles? Yes, Yes you should the 7500mi oil change interval is for vehicles driven
Under ideal conditions IE warm sunny day on the highway.
Short trips cold weather dusty conditions Ect. will shorten the oil
Change interval, the oil doesn’t really go bad it becomes contaminated with acids combustion byproducts Ect.
http://www.aa1car.com/library/how_often_change_oil.htm
I think Paul should run as an independent because the republicans don’t deserve to win. Hell, after their last pick as president, I don’t think they even deserve to exist as a party. The republican treatment of Paul has been an overt slap in the face to those who teeter between republicanism and libertarianism. History clearly shows that the term “small government republican” is an oxymoron.
Aside from Paul, I don’t think the republicans have a candidate who would be any better than Obama. Does anyone actually think nutcase McCain would have been any better than Obama?
Thought I might see this one today…
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/14/143648941/interactive-join-our-constitutional-convention?sc=fb&cc=fp
Join NPR’s Constitutional Convention to vote on proposed Amendments submitted by users…
Radley, your one-line synopsis of the Sunlight Foundation’s research on political donations is misleading.
You say: “What political causes get the most money from the top 1 percent of the top 1 percent? You might be surprised.” And then you link to a WaPo story that purports to summarize a recent study and includes a list of mostly liberal “political causes.”
But that list is not a ranking of who “gets the most money.” It’s a ranking of the groups with whom certain donors (identified by the study authors as “”ideological donors”) associate themselves. But those “ideological” donors represent only 18.1% of the donors in the .01 percent (71 percent of those donors are corporate employees or lawyer/lobbyists). And of all the money given by ALL the .01 percenters, only 11 percent goes to independent groups such as the ones listed in the WaPo article. (The overwhelming majority of the money goes to candidates and party committees.)
The study does NOT say that groups like Emily’s List “get the most money” from the .01 percent. Indeed, it doesn’t say anything about which groups get the largest amount of the 11 percent that goes to such groups.
See: http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/12/13/the-political-one-percent-of-the-one-percent/
Seeing as how it takes me over a year to put 3000 miles on my car, I change my oil every 3000 miles.
I find the idea of a Paul presidency facinating. How exactly would that work? Hed’d get no more than a handfull of supporting votes in the house and senate. So the budgets and other actions of government would have to take place as veto overrides. I would assume that the big government coalition would be able to put together supermajorities to maintain the status quo until the impeachment goes through. I guess it is important that Rand or Gary Johnson get the veep nod to forestall the impeachment.
CNN reads The Agitator
Re: Radley’s Ron Paul prediction.
So, now the folks at CNN are reading the Agitator for story ideas?
Beats working for your own story, I guess. Also plagiarism.
Not like anyone in the media is going to call them out for it, either.
Major media feeds at the govt. teat, and they are all cowardly.
About that 1% of the 1% article, it actually defines the top .01% based on the amount given by an individual to a cause, not by income of the individual giving it. Although there may be significant overlap between the two groups as defined by income and how much they give, they are nevertheless two different groups.
Rons said “There’s a libertarian streak in this voting block and the GOP can’t stand it.”
Correct. And just like when there were WMD’s in Iraq and they couldn’t stand it, we know what they will do to correct the problem.
They will change the law to allow any American, on American soil, to be declared a “terrorist” and indefinitely detained by the military without any legal recourse. They will probably hide the language in a defense appropriations bill to force it through because “we must support the troops”.
What’s that? They did that yesterday?
Our Government = Terrorists.
We The People = their enemy.
I change my oil about every 5,000 miles. I assumed that’s because I’m a fuck-up. Now I have no excuse.
cyto: the beauty of a Paul presidency, is that he intends to do only those things that are Constitutionally authorized, and he needs almost no help from Congress to do that.
He doesn’t even have to veto a budget: he can just not spend the money. Most people don’t understand that while only Congress can pass a budget, only the Executive can write the checks. Congress could vote 534-1 to spend a skrillion dollars studying chicken farts in Peoria, but they can’t make President Paul actually spend the money.
“Congress could vote 534-1 to spend a skrillion dollars studying chicken farts in Peoria, but they can’t make President Paul actually spend the money.”
FYI: As a Central IL resident, I can tell you that chicken farts are no longer lawful in Peoria County, as fowl methane is known to exacerbate climate change. Corks for chicks are now available at your local farm bureau ;)
Re: oil changes -my car manual specifies 5000 miles, but the things I always kick myself for are getting talked into various other “flushes” and fluid changes. I have a bad habit of taking the mechanic at his word that it’s a good idea, only to google it later and find my car almost certainly didn’t need it. Maybe next time I’ll remember to say no.
#12 – Hexag1, you hit that ball so hard that shit is gonna need a flight attendant. Out of the fucking park.
Seriously – I get really fucking annoyed by people who say “Such and so a policy is a failure” because it didn’t achieve its putative (stated) aims. If the analytical starting point is always that every policy is designed to funnel money to political cronies while simultaneously either deepening or broadening the reach of the political vampires into our bloodstream… well, the analyst stands a much better chance of establishing whether or not things are ‘successes’.
And as for Cato’s list about how the political parasites have basically fucking ignored the Bill of Rights… well fuck me, what a surprise. Political power ALWAYS attracts the wrong type of person – megalomaniac parasites – and once installed on the throne they set about populating the senior bureaucracy and judiciary with kindred spirits. So you wind up with a machine whose basic purpose it to parse out of existence, any constraints on government behaviour.
So the Bill of Rights morphs from specifically non-exhaustive list of rights in which the government MUST not interfere, to a list of things that government ‘grants’ and that is considered the ONLY ‘Constitutional’ rights. Then scumbags like that Fay Tony Scalia set to work, declaring that detention without trial for ‘civil contempt’ is not a violation of the 8th Amendment, because it’s not ‘punishment’ (it’s “judicial coercion”).
The government, being peopled with megalomaniacal scum, pays the judiciary and its appendanges. The judiciary knows where its bread comes from, and so will ALWAYS take the most restrictive reading of the ‘law’ when it’s being used by a Mundane to assert his rights, and will always take the broadest possible reading when the State is seeking permission to violate those rights.
If you get your first principles correct, you’re seldom surprised.
Rad, the LA Times article regarding oil change intervals simply parrots government propaganda — why would we believe it? It might be true or partly true, but why assume that it is true, especially when it is obvious that is is simply propaganda.
Thanks GT, glad to see that I’m not alone in this.
The more I think about the drug war, the more I think that the real problem is at a local level. This blogs content is a constant reminder of the endless violations of rights that happen everyday, in small town America. Not that Guantanamo and the patriot act don’t matter, but its easy to miss the enormity of the problem by just looking at washington.
#12 is exactly right. The war on drugs accomplishes exactly what its supporters and enforcers use it to accomplish. So does the TSA. So does the minimum wage. So do taxes. So do business regulations that basically function as barriers to entry while allowing corruption and fraud free reign.
There is no abuse of the system. The system itself is the abuse.
Re: Newt the Authoritarian Toad
If you’re not reading zero hedge daily then you really don’t know what’s going on. That said, I was somewhat shocked to see some asshole (one of the contributors) spout off with this gem:
He was savaged deservedly in the comments.
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/republicans-gingrich-only-choice
Radley, re: Ron Paul winning Iowa caucus — the smear memos have gone out
Limbaugh Calls Iowa Republicans ‘Uninformed’ Waco Nut Jobs . . .
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/100867.html
#6 “and suffer the consequences of their own actions, come what may.”
Most people are no good at that….
Try this for a perfect fit to your prediction.
Bob Barr—A Republican in Libertarian Clothing
endorsed Newt Gingrich
http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-west-palm-beach/bob-barr-shows-true-colors-his-endorsement-of-newt-gingrich
@8, “I think it took an economic meltdown, 50% poverty levels, mass unemployment and endless warfare to wake people up. A lot to endure, and to suffer, but hell, it worked.”
It will take a lot more pain for people to wake up to the brutality of The State and everything it stands for, because it requires people to question everything they believe and have been brainwashed to believe. That takes a lot of energy, and it usually takes someone ELSE planting the “seeds of doubt” and continually watering them before someone can go from crawling for liberty to walking to running.
The political process’ owners will fight to the death before Ron Paul wins. It’s not a straight up-down vote in most states and counties. You have a delegate process. You have party line people creating one-time rules to tilt things in their favor to overcome the current threat. You have outright lies and vote manipulation. You have party heads literally turning off the lights and closing the caucus meeting room and leaving because they don’t like how it’s going, so the vote can’t be completed without their presence and thus there is no vote.
All of these things happened in 2008 against Ron Paul. See happenings in Nevada and Michigan, for starters. I saw first-hand some of these in my county party meetings (and it was for non-Presidential stuff, just regular run of the mill stuff but I and others challenged them, which is extremely rare at any party meeting in any county).
@12, “Why is it, when the establishment says something like “Paul can’t win Iowa” and the voters disagree, the voters are discredited? Didn’t the rise of the Tea Part make it clear the voters have had enough of authoritarian RINOs and Neo-Cons?”
Imagine a huge sea dragon being attacked by people with spears on boats, and they are throwing spears at the sea dragon. Slowly over time (years) more and more boats show up with people that have spears and also throw theirs. That sea dragon thrashes around more and more as more spears stick it because it is bleeding to death and thus DYING (the intended outcome of the spear throwers).
Sea dragon = Neo-con Republican party controllers and their supporters
Spear throwers = libertarian-minded people with R label
Note: I do not endorse or condone any party action, as the existence of the party, the system, etc is the problem and thus should be eradicated and replaced with NOTHING. Let those that want a master have the chains of the master, and those that don’t want any part of a new system be LEFT THE FUCK ALONE.
@12 for The Win.
@24, it’s more likely that Ron Paul would be assassinated than impeached. The same happened to others that were a threat to those that control the system. Follow the money to the banking dynasties.
It’s more likely that House and Senate would pass a bill, Paul would veto it, and they would override the veto with a 2/3 vote. You will see treason even more up close perpetrated by Congress. It is impossible to NOT see the problems with the amount of data. The only way one cannot agree is that they are in deep denial and/or do not give a shit — give me my bad of silver, Judas; give me my block of cheese, agent.gov.
@36 for the follow-up Win.
Hey folks,
Here’s an article about a Pasco county (FL) Republican Party straw poll conducted yesterday: http://www2.tbo.com/news/pasco-news/2011/dec/14/4/ron-paul-tops-in-gop-straw-poll-in-pasco-ar-334533/
Ron Paul clobbered everyone else, and the county’s GOP Party mouthpiece is not happy. He oozes disdain for Dr. Paul’s “organized and passioniate” supporters, actually calling it unethical for enthusiastic citizens to participate in the political process because he doesn’t approve of the outcome.
This is going to get REALLY interesting.
@12, 10 Ways the War on Drugs Is a Wild Success
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/blair-e7.1.1.html
If you hate Rush Limbaugh, you’re not a Republican. If you’re not a Republican, why would you be voting in the caucus? I can understand wanting to support Ron Paul, but Ron Paul is not really a Republican. I like some of Paul’s ideas, but I think he is being used to hijack the process.
Just got done watching a replay of the debate from Iowa last night. I know there are a lot of Paul supporters here and I’d like to hear some of his supporters comment on his Iran stance. Thanks
There has been one great thing watching the fake conservatives at this endless string if idiotic debates:
Anybody who thinks America is “arrogant” and the politicians are too much like “cowboys” and that sort of thing….just watch them all bend over before Israel, time and time again. These guys couldn’t look more girly in their effeminate prostration to Israel than if they were dressed in drag in bed with Ken Mehlman listening to ‘It’s Raining Men’.
And thanks for the article about the oil change. My mechanic roommate has told me that several times, and I sent the link to my parents to try and save them a few hundred bucks a year.
I wonder if the actual election “won’t count” if Paul wins. Will Obama get to be president again for coming in second there?
I follow the manufacturers schedule when it comes to oil changes, along with making sure that the oil meets the manufacturers requirement. The mileage can be all over the place as a result-for one vehicle (2009) it’s every 3K with conventional 5w20 and for another (2012) its full synthetic 5w40 changed every 10K. I’m anal enough to use the manufacturers oil filters too, so as to not trip the drivetrain warranty. While the argument has some merit on it’s face if the used oil gets properly recycled (and there’s no excuse not too) it will get feed back into the supply anyway.
[...] The media has it. As the press and the republican establishment keep knocking down whoever is not-Romney-this-week, Paul stays pretty consistent. [...]
@51 “My mechanic roommate” It’s raining men, hallelujah! It’s raining men.
•Also, Chris Wallace—who will be moderating the next GOP debate—says a Paul win “won’t count,” and would “discredit” Iowa voters.
If Paul wins the general election, his opponent will be President. Isn’t it obvious by now?
#33 | GT — “#12 – Hexag1, you hit that ball so hard that shit is gonna need a flight attendant. Out of the fucking park. Seriously – I get really fucking annoyed by people who say “Such and so a policy is a failure” because it didn’t achieve its putative (stated) aims. If the analytical starting point is always that every policy is designed to funnel money to political cronies while simultaneously either deepening or broadening the reach of the political vampires into our bloodstream… well, the analyst stands a much better chance of establishing whether or not things are ‘successes’.”
A-fucking-men, brother. I like you GT. I argue the same exact thing when people erroneously label Bush a failure/moron. Nothing could be further from the truth … his administration faithfully executed successfully every policy it attempted in service of its masters. It is astonishing and depressing to read how stupid some people are to believe that State policies are expected to deliver their putative aims. It is always and forever about class war, the siphoning of economic power from the masses to the select.
Tim P:
I’m not a Republican, and so maybe this is concern trolling, but are you sure you want to define your political movement by adherence to a media personality? One whose success depends on keeping advertisers and radio station owners sweet on him, and keeping ratings, but not on being right?
At any rate, there is a fraction of Republicans who agrees substantially with Paul’s positions. There’s not some law written in the sky that says that Republicans can’t ever really become the party of small government, just because they’ve long since abandoned that idea. Nor that the Republicans can’t be the party of smaller military budgets, or fewer entangling alliances, or even ending the war on drugs.
Newt Gingrich is on “Face the Nation” today, and he is a batshit fucking crazy demagogic fascist troll. Jesus. He just claimed that he has an advantage because he’s a historian, not a lawyer, which gives him a greater breadth of understanding of why the other branches should flip the bird to the judiciary because they disagree with its “elite” decisions, especially on official expressions of religious sentiment. He nattered on at length about the equivalency between present-day tempests in teapots over small-time religious wedges and Dred Scott. He can’t even keep church membership out of his otherwise astute and decent immigration platform. This Elmer Gantry blowhard is of course the same adulterer who went on the warpath against Clinton over a fucking blowjob.
What a shithead.
Re: #37:
That paragraph from Zero Hedge is a true gem of political psychosis. And I do mean psychosis. I was once able to convince a psychotic homeless guy in Inglewood that my universe, not the others that he was simultaneously visiting, was the applicable one for determining that the commercial aircraft at low altitude overhead were on final approach to LAX. It’s a lot harder to sway ideological nuts who make up their own versions of history, say, in which Jefferson and Jackson were Republicans, and Reagan and Roosevelt were libertarians, just like Newt, because people like that shut dissenters out of their echo chambers.
Two important questions come up: what percentage of GOP voters actually believe shit like that, and how effective are GOP operatives at manipulating the rest from behind the curtain? My sense is that the GOP base is being actively targeted by psychological operations from bad actors, including Democratic operatives, who would love to have a crazy like Gingrich run against the President, and an assortment of fascist and theocratic agitators in their own party. Ron Paul is clearly a viable candidate, but none of the horse race enthusiasts will handicap him against Obama in the general election or consider how he’d perform in general election debates. I imagine he’d crush Obama.
It’s scary how effective broadcasters are at blackballing viable candidates and elevating total shitheads to the status of demigods. That’s apparently why Mike Huckabee, a stable, steady and supremely eloquent man with an on-the-ground organization that spontaneously organized itself in Iowa, fizzled in 2008. There was nothing at all resembling an implosion moment in his campaign, but it was impressive that he got so little airtime and was widely dismissed as a barely electable member of the religious fringe, while McCain would supposedly be a steady hand at the tiller to pilot the ship of state. All the talk about presidential temperament sounds like bullshit when a guy who apparently has it, Huckabee, is sidelined in favor of a famous hothead who lost his mind in Vietnam, McCain. This year, the talking heads have been claiming that the most electable candidate is steady-as-she-goes Romney, but every one of the media darlings among his challengers has been a nut or worse: Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and now Gingrich. These freaks are supposed to be presidential material, but not Ron Paul? What garbage.
The broadcasters are working psy-ops on us. The real problem is that the electorate is too lazy and stupid not to believe whatever bullshit it’s fed by a slick newsreader.
Re: #5 and #9:
Armchair sociological analysis of NYPD press credentialing; feel free to dispute:
The old breed of hack, people like Mike Royko, got dirt on police operations because they spent lots of time drinking with cops. The new breed at the big papers fancies itself above drinking with cops, because that would involve hanging out with little people at dive bars in places like the South Side of Chicago or, heaven forfend, Staten Island. (I can’t help it: my mom grew up near Forest and Jewett in the present-day 120th Precinct, where one of her family’s cats was reported as stray by a paranoid retired Captain McWilliams, who lived with his wife in their basement; her other next-door neighbors, a middling mob family named Perosi, were by all accounts fine people.)
The new breed is too awkwardly upper middle class to relate to beat cops, and it doesn’t know many beat cops socially. My Alma Mater, Dickinson, which graduates several hundred alumni a year, recently listed a single police officer in an alumni networking directory covering forty-odd years of graduating classes; I’m aware of only one other alumnus who completed police training, a handful of us who applied unsuccessfully, and a close friend whom I advised while he was inquiring with agencies in Maryland before he dropped out after meeting some Montgomery County PD recruiters who were juvenile asses. I knew a number of students whose parents were cops, and Dickinson has a huge percentage of first-generation college students, so I can only imagine how otherworldly the socioeconomic environment is at the more prestigious of our “peer institutions.”
Journalism has become a credentialed profession whose members are largely drawn from this sort of environment. It’s no wonder that so many journalists would rather suck up to white shirts than establish relationships with peons on the ground. It’s hard to exaggerate the number of deranged courtiers graduated by prestigious colleges. I’ve watched some of these assholes suck up to the administration as undergraduates, then proceed on short order to suck up to sick characters in business or government and achieve dangerous levels of power in their twenties, all while their more responsible, morally grounded classmates remain obscure and inconsequential by comparison. Some of the social climbers I’ve known exhibit exactly the same pathologies exhibited by the dregs who become newscasters and reporters these days. Not having any idea of how to bypass official press channels at the NYPD is exactly what I’d expect of a Dickinsonian working as a police beat reporter.
I should add that Gingrich completely dodged Bob Schiefer’s very appropriate follow-up question this morning about Brown v. Board of Education. What a shifty bastard.
If that evasive, haughty, quasi-intellectual thug is the best the Republicans can do, it’s time for the GOP to die.