If you’re gonna do that, Michael, at least have the guts to off yourself. He would plead not guilty, of course.
I guess it is a savage nation, after all.
Savage’s latest book (all these people write unreadable, simplistic books at an alarming pace — Savage’s latest is Psychological Nudity, a title whose creepiness is in perfect sync with its author’s. Most of the time the books are patriotically named, e.g., Laura Ingraham’s Power to the People, a book with as much thought behind it as the actual title itself: which is to say, it’s all obvious and unoriginal and lazy and lame.
Ingraham, in particular, likes to talk about “The Culture,” as though it’s this ravenous beast that is eating us all alive and will undoubtedly send our kind to a sort of moral oblivion, if not checked. She talks during one of her, uh, segments about the fact that young girls are either made or encouraged to dress like they are straight out of either Little House on the Prairie (now where would that retail facility reside?) or moral tramps, destined for prostitution (really?) and this because most teen girls profess to idolizing, say, Beyonce’ and (I guess) her stage presence, where she does indeed shake a mighty booty.
Aside from the obviousness of this comment (and conservative talk show hosts are nothing if not obvious), what happened to the young girls who, say, eight years ago idolized The Spice Girls? You think most of them turned out to be whores? Just a hunch: I’m guessing not. It’s called being an adolescent girl, and if you had one you’d know. (It’s seemingly unique that so many of these conservative hosts talk about kids and the values we should be instilling in kids, and yet they are childless. Rush, the thrice married, thrice divorced rotundity should not be lecturing me about how to raise kids when I have them and he doesn’t.) It’s arrogant and unbecoming the species.
It’s possible that these Spice Girls worshippers turned out to be “bad girls” — I don’t know — but I kinda doubt it. My niece was one, as a matter of fact, and she’s now in medical school. Who woulda guessed? Not Laura, that’s for sure. Her intellect, such as it is, is like the kid’s pool at your local club facility: not deep, and piss tepid.
And I doubt most everything Ingraham has to say, if only for the reason that she seems to have this large core of insecurity about her. I have no idea whether she’s married or not or is in a relationship, but if not, I’d say that one might do her a lot of good. (Supposedly, a few years ago she experienced a highly traumatic and life-changing breakup of a long-term relationship; it kinda feels that way, listening to her.) So I’d say what she’d say to the underprivileged and unadorned all around us: just get over it, sweetheart. Your disposition and horsiness might change (“You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright,” Springsteen); then again, Laura being Laura, maybe not.
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
Does the smugness and hate make you feel better about the emptiness and inadequacy which fill your days with self-loathing and terrifying doubt?
Dave
2 - Baronius
Sorry about that. Please delete the previous comment (my test comment, not Dave's comment).
I just wanted to say that this article didn't show any insight into the different talk show hosts. That would have been much more intersting.
3 - Baritone
Well, it may be that excepting in respect of their individual personalities, there isn't a hell of a lot of difference to be found between those people. They are all tantamount to snake oil salesmen/women or money grubbing evangelists.
The one name left out of the discussion was everyone's favorite, Ann Coulter, but that I assume is owing to the fact that she doesn't have her own radio/TV show. (At least I don't think she does.)
Dave - all those people - just as with GWB - have over time earned the loathing they receive. Perhaps you look at them as lords of the right, protectors of the great conservative hoard. I (and apparently Stephen) see them all as despicable opportunistic blowhards. I grant you that there are a few such coming out of the left as well, but overall, the right wingers pretty much have the corner on the market.
B
Am I seeing this correctly, they have done away with the "comment preview?"
4 - Clavos
Dave - all those people - just as with GWB - have over time earned the loathing they receive.
As have Bill Maher, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and of course, Miss Congeniality, Al Franken.
5 - Baritone
Clav,
Maher - Yeah, pretty much. Franken - Okay, you can have him too. Olbermann - well, sorta, but I kinda like him despite his pomposity, so I can't really give him up.
Maddow? Nope. She's defnitely a keeper. Tell you what, you can have Chris Matthews AND I'll throw in Michael Moore, but I get to keep Rachel. :-)
B
6 - Jeannie Danna
I would be very curious to know what has been deposited in the personal bank accounts of theses voices from the extreme right. I believe they are serving a power we do not ever really see in this country. You know, the same fools that rally against any social programs, at all, for the majority of us are ominously silent when money is funneled to the industrial war complex,Wall Street, AIG, and the banks. The most ironic fact here is that if not for the social programs that grew the middle class to begin with; Glen Beck, Shawn Hannity, and yes! even Rush Limbaugh wouldn't have a microphone in front of them. They would have a serving tray!