To continue the Theme of th’Evening, here is the inestimable Doghouse Riley, on Politico‘s attempt to gin up the Rove/Perry “feud“:
This is the fucking United States of America, which used to mean something; if Rick Perry and Karl Rove are significant players in our national politics it no longer means anything better than Hold Your Nose. Rove’s artificial genius is founded on the fact that his man–the poster boy for unearned privilege, alcohol-induced Korsakoff’s syndrome, and the worst President this country has even been inflicted with, bar none–“won” an election decided by the Supreme Court in a fucking decision it tried to disavow at the same time it announced it. If America really was exceptional, in a good way, that never would have happened. If America had the fucking sense God gave most mammals Karl Rove would be hiding out in another hemisphere. Meanwhile, Rick Perry is almost literally a Bag of Hair. A feud between these two is not news, because neither of them is anyone worth giving a shit about. And we’re not going to solve anything until the public discourse is reported on by people who are honestly dedicated to the truth, who think it matters, not overgrown versions of the kid on the playground who’d eat a worms for a quarter…
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You don’t think there’s something deeply, deeply disturbing about a country where those two holes in the atmosphere play a meaningful role in politics? I don’t know how anybody believes that Rick Perry is a game-changer, a bull in the bullpen, a formidable candidate assuming-the-race-will-be-decided-on-Phony-ass Telegenics, a sort of bargain-basement version of The Candidate, other than the fact that it worked for Sarah Palin four years ago, when “Hey, she’s hawt” was the only Right/Redneck reaction (that is, public reaction) that initial weekend, while everyone in the country with an IQ above hypothermia went “Wha’ th’ fuck is this idiot the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee?”
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Okay, so there is reason to take Rick Perry seriously as a candidate, because, c’mon, lookit who’s actually been President the last few decades. It doesn’t mean you can’t register a little shock.
Much more true Stoical (i.e., Cynical-in-its-original-sense) entertainment at the link.
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