McCain: A Great Wall of 'Duh'

[Waiting For Everyman]

August 7 Huffington Post by Bob Cesca, excerpt below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/protecting-mccains-ignora_b_117565.html

"Protecting McCain's Ignorance With a 'Great Wall of Duh'"



Suffice it to say, the awful bricks that form the Great Wall of Duh are practically too numerous to list.

It's no wonder that, with such an airtight cocoon, Senator McCain -- after repeatedly being debunked by numerous experts, and after personally conceding the argument -- can go around saying things like this today:

" claiming putting air in your tires is the equivalent of new offshore drilling," McCain said. "That's not an energy plan, my friends -- that's a public service announcement."

Yes, it's a lie. Yes, it's ignorant. But most importantly, it's disingenuous -- deliberately ignorant with the intention to deceive. Not unlike FOX News Channel, Senator McCain is not just exploiting the ignorance of his supporters -- he's counting on it. He and his cynical strategists are counting on their own supporters to be unaware of the verifiable fact that if we maintain proper tire pressure, we would conserve more oil than would be attained with the McCain plan for offshore drilling. And he's counting on his supporters to blindly ditto this line -- a line that's specifically designed to be easily repeated for the sake of painting Senator Obama as weak and ineffectual. Ironic, isn't it.

The entire Bush administration, as well as the modern Republican movement before it, was built upon exploiting the naiveté and ignorance of its supporters. Start with the Southern Strategy during the Nixon years, fast forward to Reaganomics and do the list on down to "freedom fries" and "nobody anticipated the breach of the levees."

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Here's to hoping that more Democrats will step up for a change and call Senator McCain on his disingenuousness, lying and ignorance with the same clarity and strength that we heard from Senator Obama this week.




My favorite phrase in the piece, aside from "the great wall of duh" itself... "the four horsemen of lying ignoramuses: O'Reilly, Hannity, Doocy and Kilmeade".

I was glad to see this article because it really captured how I feel, trying to watch the news lately. Yes, it sure is frustrating to see deliberate lies spouted constantly without correction when they're said... then later, passed off as confusion... which is just as much of a deal-breaker as lying, for a Presidential candidate. And I too, was glad to see Sen. Obama use the "L" word... I was wondering if anyone ever would.

The "great wall of duh" during a week when the Chinese Olympics opens... pretty good! And "the four horsemen of lying ignoramuses" is speaking religious right's language, dontcha think?