A Club of Liars, Demagogues, and Fools by Scott Horton

[Jefferson23]

November 30, 2011

The German newsweekly Spiegel takes the latest disclosures concerning Herman Cain and the rise of Newt Gingrich as an opportunity to offer a foreign bird’s-eye view of the current Republican Party and the American media froth around it. My translation:

“Africa is a country. The Taliban rule in Libya. Muslims are terrorists. Immigrants are mostly criminals, Occupy Wall Street protesters are always dirty. And women who claim to have been sexually molested should kindly keep quiet.”

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Republican Party. Or rather: to the distorted world of its presidential campaign. For months it has coiled through the country like a traveling circus, from debate to debate, from scandal to scandal, contesting the mightiest office in the world — and nothing is ever too unfathomable for them… These eight presidential wannabes are happy enough not only to demolish their own reputations but also that of their party, the once worthy party of Abraham Lincoln. They are also ruining the reputation of the United States.

They lie, deceive, scuffle and speak every manner of idiocy. And they expose a political, economic, geographic and historical ignorance compared to which George W. Bush sounds like a scholar. Even the party’s boosters are horrified by the spectacle…

remainder: http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/11/hbc-90008328

[midnight]

1. This club of liar's friends own the voting machines, and they can steal your vote....

[Jefferson23]

2. Collectively, they're a horrifying group. n/t

[The Wizard]

3. one clown

short of a circus

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[certainot]

5. foreigners are excused for not recognizing the source of the problem because they're reading

and watching and they're not going to be able to turn on the radio and hear those 1000 coordinated radio stations repeating and repeating for the last 20 years.

the American left and the pundits and scholars and strategists who live here have no excuse for not realizing why things have gotten so bad. all they had to do was turn on the radio once in a while.

considering the time lost dealing with global warming ignoring RW talk radio has been the biggest political blunder in history.