The MSM isn't always cowardly. Newsweek is out with a story about the republican "patriots" who are willing to hurt America if it feeds into their Obama derangement syndrome. It's aggressive, and funny.
The headline says it all: "Talking Treason: Is Hatred of Obama Trumping Patriotism?"
The story looks at a few of the Republicans who are out there saying horrible stuff simply because they hope to make Obama look bad. It starts with Rep Doug Lamborn, who made headlines last week for saying that he was telling military generals they should resign to protest Obama. The Newsweek piece opening paragraphs go right at that:
Congressman Doug Lamborn, a Republican from Colorado, is an un-American demagogue, willing to sabotage this country for his own grandstanding narcissism. If his words are to be believed, this brigadier blowhard is thoroughly unfit for public office and instead should be rotting in jail on charges of treason.
Or am I being too subtle?
Lamborn is the latest type of political muck America needs to scrape off the bottom of its national shoe: an officeholder so absorbed with his hatred of the opposing party that he is willing to do anything, no matter how much it damages our national security and the underpinnings of our democracy, if it will win him some applause and maybe a couple of votes.
Just that alone made me happy. But the piece goes on and on and on tearing apart GOP talking heads and politicians whose sense of love for America takes a back seat to their interest in tearing down the democrats.
The piece goes after Eric Bolling, "a blatherer of the first order" for his recent comment when he heard a woman was leading the bombing strike on Syria. "“Would that be considered boobs on the ground?" he asked.
Bolling later apologized, but it was too late. Sexism, belittling courage, undermining a military operation or—as the Republicans were happy to say from September 12, 2001, through January 19, 2009—damaging the morale of the troops: These are reasons for termination. And if Bolling is still working at Fox by the end of the month, the network is clearly demonstrating that it doesn’t give a damn about the troops—unless, of course, they can be used as props to attack the other political party.
One of the things I found interesting in the piece is that, while it cites some lunacy by the queen of lunacy, Michelle Bachmann, it doesn't really condemn her for it. Instead, it has this "crazy people will be crazy people" mindset, and instead criticizes other Republicans for being too scared to criticize the idiots. "Unfortunately, with the growth of the Tea Party, most Republicans now know that speaking truth to the deluded is a sure path to early political retirement."
Then there is this wonderful line:
The Republicans’ plastic patriots with their faux flag-waving just can’t seem to weather the cold reality that a Democrat is in the Oval Office, leaving them willing to tear apart anyone, anywhere, who might be seen as providing a little positive PR to the president’s policies.
Then it adds, "Learn to love this country more than you hate its president. We will all be the better for it. Particularly our troops.
I'd love to quote it all, but copyright and the like. The piece goes on for awhile and is well worth a read.