Mr. Spit
My erstwhile correspondent Robert Stacy McCain, who really is kind of a douchebag, answers a question I had a while back as to how Greater Wingnuttia will ever get over the fact that the media obviously lurrrrrves them some St. John McCain. The central tenet of the wingnut faith is that the MSM hates Conservatives like they hate Santa. That McCain is Santa to the media, & that the media likes blowing jolly guys who hang out with green-tighted elves... well, that kind of fucks with the right wing received wisdom. (Of course it's also what they themselves were whining about three months ago, before they realized Fred Thompson was dead -- which, to be fair, still seems to have escaped Fred himself).
But Girlname McShithead has a rather elegant solution to this puzzlement: talking complete crap!
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each, individually, have been getting twice as much network TV coverage as John McCain. Combined, the Big Three networks give the two Democrats four times as much coverage as they give the lone Republican.
The former POW is now MIA as far as MSM coverage is concerned.
The sad part is that he's probably proud of that. I myself though am prouder of this: KMRIA & STFU, POS. (As well I should be.)
The true fun though comes a bit later in Girlname McShithead's post:
If liberal bloggers want to chastise the MSM for its long love affair with Senator Amnesty -- hey, get in line. Michelle Malkin, Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin have been complaining about this MSM-McCain romance for years, and Rush Limbaugh's been doing it since at least 1999.
So John McCain, then, only unfairly benefits from a supplicant press when wingnuts complain that this is the case. When liberals point this out, they are "demented."
Well, it's elegant! Retarded and nauseating, but elegant. Like a vomiting halfwit bigot ballerina, I suppose.
UPDATE: Oh, before I forget, Girlname McShithead describes himself thusly:
Award-winning columnist, reporter, editor, author, bon vivant and raconteur.
Jesus Christ fucking a pogo stick, what an absolute douchebag.
[Psst: Robert Stacy, John Sidney]
Posted by: Spokane Moderate | March 31, 2008 at 11:00 AM
sm, whoops, losing my mind...
Posted by: Thers | March 31, 2008 at 12:28 PM
Yeah, Clinton and Obama are being covered more than McCain. It's for the same reason that teams still battling for a division lead late in the season will get more coverage than the team that clinched another division weeks ago. Because there's more to write about.
Also, who in God's name ever decribes himself as a bon vivant?
Posted by: Bitter Scribe | March 31, 2008 at 12:30 PM
He's a complete fart-collector.
Posted by: Mary Ruppert | March 31, 2008 at 01:35 PM
I have invented a new candy sensation: VIVANT! Bon-bons. I predict it will sweep the nation shortly. Or I will invade Iran.
Posted by: bob | March 31, 2008 at 01:35 PM
"...bon vivant and raconteur?"
Gosh, wouldn't it just be easier to say "gay conservative," or is that too redundant?
Posted by: Milo Johnson | March 31, 2008 at 03:27 PM
Good one Milo
Posted by: PR | March 31, 2008 at 04:37 PM
Also, who in God's name ever decribes himself as a bon vivant?
A Dorothy Parker wannabe...
I'll spot him the alcoholism.
Posted by: actor212 | March 31, 2008 at 04:40 PM
As an Award-winning alcoholic, kleptomaniac, bed wetter, neo-pagan, bon vivant and raconteur, I second everything my dear friend RSM said.
Posted by: Bob | March 31, 2008 at 06:16 PM
"bon vivant and raconteur"
I intend to steal that for my own CV. It sounds a helluva lot better than "guy who drinks too many pints and then rants until chucking-out time".
Posted by: herr doktor bimler | April 01, 2008 at 01:12 AM
Reminds me of the father of a former friend, who described himself as a "wag" and "rogue" on his business card. In his case, "rogue" would translate to "let his teenage daughter catch him fucking her best friend in the daughter's bed".
Posted by: Halloween Jack | April 01, 2008 at 10:07 AM