Most Douche-tastic Of The Week
At the risk of being called curmudgeonly, I feel that this is a good week to nominate another super-huge douchebag. A lot has happened, and it’s only Wednesday morning.
Of course, Monday was Tea Party/Lionize Timothy McVeigh/Celebrate Sedition Day, and that provided enough material to fill this post. Straight to the juicy parts!
Let’s start with our perennial favorite, Rush Limbaugh (via Media Matters). Yesterday, on his radio show, he blamed Bill Clinton for the Oklahoma City bombing, claiming that McVeigh was motivated by the tyranny of Waco. That’s funny, because what I remember about The Branch Davidian incident was that a couple of U.S. Marshals were shot and killed when they showed up to investigate a suspected illegal weapons cache at the compound of the alleged child sex offender David Koresh.
Next is Representative Paul Broun of Georgia. So, just to reiterate, this guy is a fucking U.S. Congressman. At an armed gun rally in Virginia on Monday, he claimed there are enemies of the state planning to plunge the country into tyranny. But that’s not incitement to violence. The clip is from last night’s Rachel Maddow show, which I’ve included in its entirety because it is worth watching. Broun’s cheerleading begins at 1:50.
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And lastly is our friend and moderate Republican, Orrin Hatch. This measured “analysis” on Fox News left my jaw dragging the floor, whether it was his claim that he wanted to work with Democrats on the healthcare bill (he actually fought against many of the provisions he had authored in the ’90′s), or that he strongly supports financial reform (as long as it doesn’t include any consumer protection or financial transparency.) But he gets nominated for his comment at 4:25, when he suggests that the Goldman-Sachs investigation by the SEC was launched in order to give the Democrats momentum for their financial reform bill. Thank you Orrin Hatch, the man who fought against re-importation of American pharmaceuticals from Canada while deregulating cheap, ineffective drugs from India and other countries.
Want to nominate someone? Drop me a note. I’m off to have a fun day.
