KK, you mentioned yesterday that you don’t listen to wingnut radio, which explains your sense of surprise.
I have Beck, Rush, Hannity and Savage on in the background all day, as well as our local B-market ranter, Jim Quinn, who amuses himself by shouting “Communism!” and calling Barney Frank a “homo.” There’s also Billy Cunningham on Sunday nights, if you take your crazy with the Special Sauce.
Losing the election was hard enough. Losing it to Barack Obama was an insult at the molecular level of primordial political DNA sequencing. Then came the DHS report on potential sources of domestic terror, which was the equivalent of a direct photon-torpedo hit on the Far Right’s God-fearing-Constitution-loving-just-regular-Ammurricans media-fueled Cloaking Device of Mainstream Credibility.
Then, just as the rivets were starting to pop, a couple of incontestably-Liberal-hating wingnut freaks went out a-huntin’ them some Liberals.
Oh, and somewhere in the middle of this, Michael Savage was banned in Britain as a dangerous hate-monger, and placed on a no-fly list along with several actual, known, name-brand terrorists.
Rush is trying to hold his fudge, but everywhere else you can just sense how wigged-out these people are that the mask of respectability has been shear away, and suddenly America has become, for them, the last 20 minutes of They Live!
They feel exposed and vulnerable, and they’ve responded by amping up the siege-mentality rhetoric of the “death of capitalism” and “the intentional destruction of everything America stands for” and, of course, “Patriots and ‘real Americans’ are being targeted for extermination.”
And, come on, you know they’re desperate when they have to argue that Von Brunn wasn’t a real conservative, because no real conservative would gun down a man in a uniform, at least not one-handed, which is a violation of the “two-hand stance” rule for free-range shooting.
Expect more drunken late-night phone calls…and turn your radio down.
