Sunday, July 20, 2014

Right-wing Talk Radio Throws it Against the Wall to See if it Sticks

The crisis in the Border States is a conspiracy for Russian spies and Middle Eastern terrorists who are secretly crossing the border as American border agents’ attention is focused on Central American children. More tails from the crypt. This is the latest bizarre idea that has been flung out by the right-wing wackadoodles on the Steve Deace show Tuesday evening, June 15, 2014. The guest host didn’t in anyway question the idea; he let it fly across the airways unchallenged.

Whatever is said on right-wing talk radio does not stay on right-wing talk radio. It infects more than who listen, and these heinous lies spread like a virus through their listeners and contaminate all the people those listeners contact. Right-wing talkers are more toxic, then, the bubonic plague because you can kill the rats that carry the infected fleas, but these talking rats are paid millions to spew their disease and spread it unrestrained through their mindless minions and beyond.

The more outrageous their idea the longer the shelf life, e.g. Obama was born in Kenya (still living). This is happening from the local to the national level. Here in Washington State we have a member of the Tea Party who professes to believe that it is the environmentalists that have caused global warming. He blames our current energy crisis on the fact that we are not running multiple nuclear power plants in the state. Based on his logic if those darn environmentalist hadn’t stopped the nuclear revolution greenhouse gases would not be what they are today.  It is good to see that Mr. Cicotte recognizes that there is greenhouse gas pollution.

Unlike Mr. Cicotte, right-wing talkers have been so ostracized by the rest of the world that they are never allowed to speak their peace, yet somehow, they seem to be doing a great job of it on the radio. Living in Seattle the only talkers outside of sports talk shows are right-wingers spinning all kinds of crazy-talk.  My favorite in their latest anti-Obama chorus: President Obama is the reason that the Malaysian airliner was shot down in Crimea.  Of course he was.

This invariably leads to the idea that Iraq is falling apart because we are not still acting as an occupier. It is not the fact that Bush and his minions destroyed the political infrastructure as bad as it was, and replaced it with warring factions that want to kill each other to retain or regain power. No one on the right seems to remember that all occupiers end up being run off by the occupied. Being an occupier is a zero sum game and that is why empires crumble, e.g. The Soviet Union in the 1990’s or maybe Iran in the 1980’s.

In the eyes of the right-wing talkers, there is no need to look at history because none of that matters since we are the greatest country ever, so we will not fall prey to historical precedence. From their point of view, the present problems in Iraq were never caused by our invasion. The present quagmire that is Iraq was brought about due to the fact there is not enough military hardware being used by American men and women.

These right-wingers have learned nothing from our past behaviors, so they want to act as if our military might will be able to solve any and all problems that arise. These right-wing talkers want us all to remember that the use of military action is doing so well in all corners of the globe such as Egypt, Syria, Chechnya, Crimea, Southern Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan to name a few.

While these right-wingers scream about how the world is falling apart and that President Obama is sitting on his hands, they have no alternative plans. They offer no policy ideas except, “Send in more troops”. Well, it is an election year, so you don’t want to put yourself out there with ideas; it is always better to scream and shout about of the evil that is in the world and how the president is taking no action, then, to actually have a plan to put on the table.

Darrell Issa has the right idea: make up a phony crisis, spend hundreds of millions of tax payers’ dollars, then, vote against unemployment benefits for hard working Americans that have fallen on tough times. Maybe his diversionary tactics will work, and the American people will vote against their own best interests, thus, sending the Republicans on to victory in November. Go right-wing talkers may your contrived crises be heard around the country and bring prosperity to all. 

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