Because the forbidden is slightly magnetic for some of us, I tune in to Bill Press on left-wing talk radio during the weekday pre-dawn hours, and I close my day by drinking in Chris Matthews’ “Hardball” show on MSNBC each evening for as long as my stomach remains stable.
The two boys provide fresh reminders with every visit why I never could return to my Democrat Party roots.
Mr. Matthews has opened most of his programs for the past week with a streak of juvenility that makes him nearly unwatchable. His guest lineup often looks as if Folsom Prison had been turned upside down.
Last night, Mr. Matthews and the last-place satirist on television Bill Maher did a nearly unwatchable job of turning Christine O’Donnell of Delaware into mashed potatoes. Lucky for the boys that the anti-bullying ordinances adopted by schools across the country does not apply to them, or they would have been hauled out with the kitchen garbage.
The double standard that the left-wing media applies to Republicans but never to Democrats is sickening. But they have had control of the media as long as I have been alive, and we cannot unelect them.
Look what these same boys have done to Sarah Palin for two years. To Dick Cheney for much longer? To Rush Limbaugh for just as long. They are such lightweights if their shoes were not nailed to the grass, they would blow away.
Where Is the Beef?
It seems that the Republican U.S. Senate candidate appeared on a Maher show 11 years ago when she had just turned 30, and he was doing a little-watched cable program. She said that she had dabbled with witchcraft in high school, in the middle 1980s, through a boyfriend.
That would be good for a gasp today. Not one syllable more. Let us not talk about what you and I did in high school.
When the joke was over, they repeated the act again and again. And so those mavens of immaturity, Mr. Matthews and Mr. Maher howled like 15-year-olds at an initiation dance. These boys never will be accused of substance abuse because their schoolyard humor is substance-free.
Like bullies, though, the boys swung at Ms. Donnell again and again. Just the way Mr. Press does routinely on the radio against Ms. O’Donnell.
She may beat the hyper-tax-raising Democrat she is running against. Then let’s see the boys chortle.
I Use Marbles When I Speak
One of Mr. Matthews’ favorite guests is a black essayist, Gene Robinson of the Washington Post. He is a race-baiting, hate-shlepping who may have a speech impediment. He is gravelly, difficult to understand. As offhandedly as you go to lunch, he calls Tea Party members racists because, well, he doesn’t need evidence, just because, he says.
By Mr. Robinson’s rubber barometer, most Republicans who criticize President Obama are racially motivated.
The boys have not criticized any of Ms. O’Donnell’s political views because they think her beliefs are irrelevant for a punching bag. They do not criticize Tea Party politics for the same reason.
They just stand on the sideline, along with Mr. Press, Thom Hartman and Mike Molloy and hoot, “You are a racist.”
That is Reason No. 199 it is a pity the calculatedly polarizing Mr. Obama was elected.
Let us bring this discussion to a closing circle:
One night last week on Larry King, Mr. Maher used the term nigger.
Race-baiters on the left have been telling us for years that nigger is too vulgar to be pronounced. We should be manipulative, the way they are, and coyly call it “The N-word.” Sorry, guys.
Gosh, I would have bought a ticket to see the mature Mr. Maher, sitting across from the mature Mr. Robinson and say nigger to him.
Dr. Laura was effectively fired for using it. Mr. Maher? He’s liberal. His lexicon is protected from critics.
