McCain’s Monster
By Max Udargo | July 3, 2009
I love watching Sarah Palin try to construct logical arguments using the 8 platitudes, 6 bromides, and 4 clichés that make up the whole of her intellectual inventory.
Watching her wrestle with logic is like watching a woman try to apply makeup without a mirror. “Some governors are distracted and ineffective once they become lame ducks. Well, I’m a different kind of politician and I refuse to behave that way, so I will stay focused and continue to be effective in my final few months resign before I start behaving that way.”
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So Dark In Here
By Max Udargo | May 1, 2009
Meet Gleeb, “the only known alien to have been abducted by the government.” More stuff from this guy, who’s British or Australian or Scottish or something, on his crazy page.
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Speaking Truth to Crazy
By Max Udargo | April 16, 2009
Does this guy rock, or what? He talks about the experience on DailyKos.
To paraphrase Edmund Burke, “All that is necessary for the triumph of crazy is that sane men do nothing.” So kudos to this guy for stepping up and doing something in the face of rampaging crazy. For most of us, public speaking is scary enough. Standing up to make a speech you know is going to be received with hostility takes real courage.
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As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly
By Max Udargo | April 14, 2009
Glenn Beck is a political pundit the same way Howard Stern is a gynecologist.
While it’s true that female anatomy plays an important role in what Stern does, and women may be required to disrobe when visiting him at his place of work, it requires a very loose definition of “gynecologist” to include Stern in the profession. And while Beck uses current events as fodder for what he does, it stretches the concept of “political commentary” to suggest Beck is a serious voice in our nation’s collective political conversation.
On the other hand, with each passing day the modern American conservative movement seems less and less an ideology and more and more a genre of entertainment, so it’s not difficult to understand how Beck’s shtick could be confused with real political discourse. Conservatives are one half of the political dialogue, right? And there was a time when conservatives were serious people with real ideas, even if you didn’t agree with them. Right? It wasn’t always like this. What happened?
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