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October 24, 2005
Stupid is as stupid does
One of the delicacies offered by the Internet is the insight it offers into the minds of people we've long known to be buffoons. Huffington Post, e.g., offers idiot syndication, of sorts, recording that once-fleeting evidence in daily installments. Alec Baldwin's latest work demonstrates why Huff Post is indispensible. Baldwin, you see, is upset with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, whom Baldwin seems to perceive as something of a hypocrite. Baldwin quotes her downplaying a "perjury technicality" in the context of the Fitzgerald/CIA leak and digs up a statement Hutchinson made in connection with her "yes" vote on impeaching Bill Clinton in 1999, which indicated something of a contrary view.
One might imagine that Baldwin, as political thinker, might compare the contexts of the statements, parse Hutchinson's words, or otherwise offer some argument as to why Hutchinson is hypocritical. But one would be sorely mistaken; Baldwin doesn't do any of that. His analysis?
My question for today is: Why are contemporary Republicans so full of shit? And a follow-up...How did the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and General Eisenhower get taken over by such lying, thieving, self-serving scoundrels?
And that's it. That's the whole analysis - the entirety of Baldwin's entry consists of two quotes and one paragraph that could've been pulled from a 7th grade history textbook. In the end, Baldwin's post is Michael Moore-ian "political pornography" -- it makes liberals feel good but doesn't really say anything. Who says Republicans are in trouble?
Posted by bill at October 24, 2005 07:23 PM
