One problem that the tribalist right never manage to get
over is that not every media outlet serves up the news in the way that they
would like it to be. A then more telling problem is their reaction to this,
which is generally to veer between adhering to Olbermann’s dictum (“the right exists in a perpetual state of
victimhood”), and forthright paranoia, the thought that those rotten
lefties are coming to get them.
It's "Mr Conservative" again, folks! Keep hold of those sick buckets!!
Illustrating this superbly is narcissist and fantasist
Raheem Kassam, who has taken my
post on his excursions into the land of make-believe particularly badly.
Having gone on ad infinitum – verging
on ad nauseam – about how he plays
the ball and not the man, Kassam was reduced to carping “You really are shit ... Are you really this thick ... you pinkos”
while accusing me of editing his Wikipedia hagiography.
But there was one achievement from his rantings: The Commentator, yet another over-hyped
repository of right-wing frothing and ranting which is just another jumped-up
group blog, is conceded by The Great Man to be a mere “side-project”. Hopefully he has communicated this message to owner
and publisher Robin Shepherd and those 250 plus writers, so they all know the
true value of their efforts.
He has, though, been constructively engaged while not
lashing out at those of dissenting view. Kassam has been tuning in to cable
news channel MSNBC. Here, he has found the content on offer not at all pleasing
to him. But, having also looked in on Zelo Street, he has, in the manner
of his pal the flannelled fool Henry Cole, borrowed my words to illustrate his
distaste.
So “vomit inducing”
goes from being a description of his narcissism (sorry Raheem, I’m still not
linking to it) to part of his characterisation of MSNBC, which from behind the
Kassam sofa of fright becomes a “ruthless
... propaganda machine”. Er, hello? The channel which kicks off its day
with Joe and Mika is a “propaganda
machine”? The station with Rachel Maddow and her Cocktail Moment?
Ho yus. Especially Rachel Maddow. “MSNBC is potentially worse than the Guardian” he carps. Heck, its journalism must be quite decent,
then. And he borrows from another recent Zelo Street post to follow that: “Rachel Maddow makes Polly Toynbee look like
Enoch Powell”. Correction: if Raheem Kassam had to face Rachel Maddow, he’d
be shown up to be a graceless, clueless, floundering buffoon.
Cocktail Moment: deeply subversive
What’re you frightened of, Raheem? You’re just another
tribalist who can’t understand why some folks don’t agree with you. You’re so
far out on the right that you call Bill-O “immovably
centrist”. What will you be telling everyone next? That there are communists
in the State Department? Maybe they’re behind the proposed deletion of your
Wikipedia hagiography. Perhaps you should be afraid.
Not that they’re out to get you, of course. Or are they?
2 comments:
FFS. How far right do you have to be to even begin to see O'Reilly as centrist?
He seems to have restrained himself this time.
*subdued applause*
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