Why aren't more people, men especially, shocked and outraged

[Shampoobra]

84. I'm glad you brought up Beck...

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...because the thought of him helped crystallize my thoughts on this whole subject.

There exists a growing list of political pundits and politicians I can never take seriously. In no particular order, they are Beck, Malkin, Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, Palin, Ryan, Cruz, Bachmann, anyone else associated with Fox News, and probably several more I'm forgetting about right now.

When I see a headline or subject line, here on DU or anywhere else, and it involves one of these nutjobs, I click on it for one reason only. And that reason has nothing to do with a need or desire to be further outraged by their stupidity, meanness, or lack of common sense and logic.

The only reason I'd click on a story or post about something awful one of these clowns has said: in hopes that it was bad enough to cause the speaker (or writer) a lot of negative, personal consequences. My hope, as I'm clicking, is that the person has said something so bad that he or she will lose advertisers, revenue, and possibly even his or her job.

I'm looking, when I click on one of those, for Beck to incite treason, or for Bachmann to claim that Jesus holds her closely at night, or for Hannity to advocate child abuse ... anything that will finally and permanently compromise the offending speaker/writer's ability to further pollute the public discourse.

Hume's remarks, while ridiculous and downright wrong, nevertheless did not rise to my desired level of scandal. In other words, I care enough to click on these message board threads or news articles, but when it's just the usual wacko nonsense, I've become desensitized because I have to consider the source.

EDITED TO ADD: A perfect example is this new DU thread: Fox psychiatrist invents ‘data rage’ after theater shooting to blame phones instead of guns. I didn't click on it, because I assume it's the story about the man who was shot dead in a theater for texting, and therefore an attempt to blame the man with the phone instead of the man with the gun, and since this nonsense comes to us courtesy of Fox News, I don't even have to waste my time reading it.