Ned has occasion to award two Contempt Citations today.
To Roger Ailes, chief of Fox "News" and a Crown Prince of the Sneering Plutocracy, for his vulgar and intemperate remarks likening that Poor Old Grandmother, PBS, to a bunch of Nazis hell-bent on squelching free speech in the US. Of all the pathetic and preposterous remarks, especially from a person who has presided over the most one-sided presentation of reactionary opinion since Father Coughlin ranted on the radio in the '30s. Called them "left-wing Nazis" to boot, a towering absurdity if there ever was one, but of course, to his followers, this "black is white" rant will be taken as confirmation of what they suspected all along.
To Sarah Palin (Like shooting fish in a barrel of course, but what are ya gonna do? If the shoe fits...) for her vulgar and condescending remarks about the First Lady in her latest "book", implying yet again that the Obamas 'hate white people' because they were subjected to 'anti-whitey rants' as younger people. This is especially delectable from someone as anti-intellectual as Palin, whose followers, mostly ignoramuses, have no doubt had their hatred of "liberals" and closet hatred of people of color shaped by what Ned imagines to have been constant exposure to hate talk on the part of their friends and family, not to mention the Hate-O-Sphere of reactionary talk radio. Ned is seriously concerned for the future of this country if someone like this continues to bask in the 24/7 media coverage she has enjoyed so far.
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