Baraknophobia - How to Engender Fear & Loathing in the American Electorate
TV conditioning is paying off for the GOP in the presidential brouhaha across the pond. Just the faintest suggestion that Obama has cast a sexist slur at the Palin person has been enough to provoke howls of faux anguish from Republicans across America. The five minute attention span of most voters means the far-right spin machine has only to make the accusation and the chattering classes heave themselves upright briefly on their nationwide sofas and bray their disgust on cue. It matters little that McCain himself used this attack in a blatantly sexist way against Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin started the ball rolling by paraphrasing this old joke in a speech of her own or that Obama was not, in fact, referring to Palin at all, the mere suspicion of a sexist remark towards their new pin up has a significant percentage of the American right breaking out the sheets and the sisal and heading for the nearest tall tree. Ho hum we've got weeks of this shit to come and if it weren't so scary it'd be laughable. The merest hint that this wrinkled old scrotum and his bat-shit mad running mate might be occupying the White House is enough to make me want to find my own beam and perform my own rope trick.
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TV conditioning is paying off for the GOP in the presidential brouhaha across the pond. Just the faintest suggestion that Obama has cast a sexist slur at the Palin person has been enough to provoke howls of faux anguish from Republicans across America. The five minute attention span of most voters means the far-right spin machine has only to make the accusation and the chattering classes heave themselves upright briefly on their nationwide sofas and bray their disgust on cue. It matters little that McCain himself used this attack in a blatantly sexist way against Hilary Clinton, Sarah Palin started the ball rolling by paraphrasing this old joke in a speech of her own or that Obama was not, in fact, referring to Palin at all, the mere suspicion of a sexist remark towards their new pin up has a significant percentage of the American right breaking out the sheets and the sisal and heading for the nearest tall tree. Ho hum we've got weeks of this shit to come and if it weren't so scary it'd be laughable. The merest hint that this wrinkled old scrotum and his bat-shit mad running mate might be occupying the White House is enough to make me want to find my own beam and perform my own rope trick.
