When Limbaugh calls a law student a 'slut' or Beck calls the President a 'racist' or that turd-from South Carolina Kincannon calls Nancy Pelosi a four-letter word beginning with "c", the RW machine responds by "distancing" itself from the offending statements by saying that these are "Entertainers" and not representative of the political establishment.
No folks, they are not Entertainers.
These are entertainers:Judy Garland, Bob Hope, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Simon and Garfunkle, Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Ross, Andy Williams, Lawrence Welk, Jean-Pierre Rampal...these are Entertainers. They bring artistry, talent, rehearsal, special gift, and a host of attributes to the stage, the screen, or the concert hall. The fact that a hateful, rambunctiously obnoxious individual can spew forth on the radio, TeeVee, or Internet does not qualify them as Entertainers. It qualifies them as Anarchists.
For that is what they are: they profess to long to blow up the existing structure of the Union and create some Nation-State of crypto-fascism. Two points need to be elucidated: first, they really do not want this to occur because it would render them jobless and second, the resultant State, should it actually come to fruition would be politically cannibalistic in the extreme. To the second point, observe how what we on the Left would call minute differences among these RWers cause them to become apoplectic with respect to each other. Pseudo-revolutionaries like Savage fight with each other mercilessly, turning the guns upon each other in that wonderful Right Wing circular firing squad which we have come to enjoy.
So far, we have managed to avert all-out crisis. Woe betide us if this crowd ever really got its act together.
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