I know if you are reading this you are above the mean intelligent quotient of the rest of America and do not watch Fox News or listen to talk radio. But every once in awhile you should suffer down to get a taste of it so you understand what the Tea Party is about and how very very stupid people are so easily manipulated by this kind of Right-wing swill. This is not even Fox News, this is the Eric Bolling show on the even more fair and balanced Fox Business channel, which I might add with be adding the fair and balanced Lou Dobbs to their line up soon. Please watch this one – and as you do, keep reminding yourself you have not fallen into a Monty Python sketch.
Where does one even begin with something like this? It is much like the screaming about Obama’s trip to the Far East. Any president would have had to go to the G20 meeting in Korea and damn well would have made stops in the two biggest nations in the world. The Glenn Beck’s Right-wing blackboard is on the move! It’s what works in grade school and for the Republican Base.
You don’t have to know anything about GM or GE to grasp what is wrong with what is all over that blackboard. Our GOVERNMENT passed TARP and the the Stimulus bill to avert a great depression. The main problem with electric cars is getting the battery weight down, efficiency up, adding longevity and getting the cost down. What does "GE" stand for? General ELECTRIC. Of course they want to move their company toward the VOLT direction. It’s a capitalistic move. Most everything on that blackboard and most everything out of Coulter’s anorexic ass is the promotion of ANTI-environmentalism, which along with tax breaks for the wealthy is the backbone of Republican politics. It is their cash cow from the Oil, Gas and Coal companies – Kill the Planet for a buck is good American politics.
To top it off, both these Fox Business boobs are painting GE, it’s CEO and board of directors as flaming liberal Democrats! MY GOD MAN! GE is the top weapon systems supplier in the world.
The Republican talking point of the week has been about those damn squiggly light bulbs that are a Marxist plot to destroy capitalism and America. We first heard mention of this in our article from a Texas nutjob who is soon to become the chairman of the House Energy Committee. Republican Energy Chair Joe Barton to eradicate those damn squiggly light bulbs. They don’t light up anything? They don’t work? What a hoot!
The new bulbs last 7 times longer, use 5 times less energy and have not given off that unpleasant white light in 2 years. They work better for less cost and less pain to the environment. Perhaps the best environmental win win we have had in our history. Their only drawback is that it takes about 5 seconds for them to go from 75% lit to 100%.
This in another example in the long list of American Me-Me crap that the smart side is using as their talking points of late. That the American people want it all, want it now and don’t want to pay anything for it – whether it be money, time, effort or sacrifice – not even a 5 second wait to go from almost full light to full light. Not even that is acceptable for our collective selfishness.
Fox Business, Fox News, Ann Coulter, talk radio know their well that their mentally challenged audience will suck up to every batcrap crazy thing they say and take it to the voting booths as 30% of the vote. So they will always win unless each and every smart person gets out and votes in each and every election.
One of the few upsides of the Great White Wave Election of 2010 is that those of us who didn’t vote for the party, the people and the ideology that caused the unemployment, them to lose their homes and got is into this Great Recession is we can feel good about ourselves knowing we still have the ability to actually think things out rather than just follow the Right-wing swill. I think it was in 1993 when I said "Rush Limbaugh’s success is that he makes idiots and a wholes feel good about themselves." Add to that Fox News, all of talk radio, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage et al.