FJO
Gold Member
Notice how the wingnut respondents in this thread all take it personally that Dick Morris, Huckameenajad, Newtie, and Ham Rove are being exposed as scam artists?Expected reaction. Wingnuts don't allow anything to permeate the bubble.
And as Frank Rich says in the follow-up interview, wingnuts should have no problems with conservatives scamming their own followers: it's just following Ayn Rand's philosophy of every man for himself:
Rachel Maddow Show
In Thomas Frank's latest book, "Pity the Billionaire:The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right," Frank documents how many RW groups saw the emergence of the so-called Tea Party movement as the perfect opportunity to cash in on the gullibility of anyone who was angry at the economic fallout from the Great Recession. And maybe the most amazing thing about it was how the RW managed to package the deal as a necessary assault ON gov't regulation because gov't was somehow preventing a purer form of capitalism from saving us from the downturn. In other words, they actually blamed TOO MUCH regulation for the recession. In their eyes, both average people and business were victims of gov't over regulation of the finance industry.
There is NOTHING in the OP that attacks conservatism in any way, shape or form. It's an attack on the leading personalities, but they see them as intertwined with their ideology.
Sad.
The most skillful and onerous and despicable and dangerous scam artists are Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan and all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who - by definition - are sickeningly racist to the core.