Dum, de dum dum, driftwood!

Just how damn crazy can the far right get?

According to newshounds.org, a guest on Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto” yesterday (1/22/2008) believes John Edwards, who commented in the S.C. debate that McCain would likely be the GOP nominee, and the liberal mainstream media are in cahoots to promote the “libertal John McCain.”

Huh?

“John McCain's candidacy isn't sitting well with the economic fascists who are sweating bullets over the November election,” newhounds’ Melanie reports. “They want big(ger) tax cuts for the rich and corporations, and apparently McCain isn't ruthless enough for them on that score. They're freaked that McCain is picking up momentum (and Rudy Giuliani, their fave, isn't). So, with Neil Cavuto's help, they're trying to bring McCain down.”

“So, you think something sinister is afoot?” Cavuto asked his guest Ben Shapiro, characterized by newshounds as a “23-year-old fledgling neocon.”

“Ah, well, yeah,” Shapiro said, “I think it's rather suspicious when John Edwards, the left-most candidate of the Democratic Party, and the mainstream media team up to ANOINT any Republican. You see the same thing with Mike Huckabee to a certain extent. They like economic populists ... and they're willing to ALLOW these people to win.”

Shapiro went on to claim McCain’s stance on issues is Obama- and Clinton-lite. He suggested McCain’s age and poor performance in a one-on-one campaign with either senator would keep Republicans away from the polls – and further stated Giuliani is the only candidate who can beat either.

The newshounds.org report concludes:

“Once again, Fox airs a segment based on its own propaganda and on its viewers knowing nothing more than what it feeds them. You can't take this seriously unless you believe, (l) That the mainstream media is so liberal it stands at the ready to 'rip apart' Republicans; (2) That John Edwards is the 'left-most' Democratic candidate; (3) That the 'liberal' MSM is so anti-Republican that it would actually
'team up' with John Edwards, a candidate it has, in reality, shunned; (4) That McCain is so liberal that only the likes of Edwards and the MSM would 'anoint' (as in endorse) him, whereas Willard 'Mitt' Romney did essentially the same thing. and (5), that Giuliani is so popular he's the 'only one' who can stop McCain.”

Postscript:

When I was in college, at age 38, the younger students would often comment on a really stupid remark by saying, “Dum de dum dum, driftwood!”

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