Infinite MonkeysApparently, Moby is now composing the talking points for the Democrats. It became clear during the opening statements of the opening segment of the first episode of The McLaughlin Group since the election. I was hoping to see Lawrence O'Donnell and Big John McL himself eat crow regarding their predictions last week. Well, they didn't mention how off base they were, but that didn't stop them from pointing out how out of touch they are.
Lawrence O'Donnell opened his comments by saying (with a straight face) that "secession is going to be a serious discussion for the next twenty years." Serious discussion? [Puh-lease...] No, those italics are not my added emphasis. I had already typed half of this up when I heard this Laura Ingraham replay the clip of O'Donnell's Friday night freak out this morning. It was he who plainly accentuated the word "serious."
McLaughlin kept beating the point about the division of the red states and the blue states, calling for the map to be put back up on-screen repeatedly. It was weird enough for O'Donnell to be talking of the legitimacy of secession talk, but "Johnny Reb" McLaughlin kept bringing up how the current division among the states paralleled the division that was just as much a factor is bringing about the Civil War as slavery was (that's a paraphrase of his point). Yes, he kept using the words civil war.
The other noteworthy statement of the show was Pat Buchanan explaining that he voted for Bush. Lunch break's almost over so I've no time left to properly word a joke about Paleo-Cons listing their PB books on Amazon Used, claiming, "he was never really one of us."
Posted by Brad at November 8, 2004 11:28 AM | TrackBackDoesn't bother me a bit.
Let them keep talking about succession. What a way to win back the people - we dislike you mid-western freaks so much that we don't even want to live in the same country. Ooo, where do I stand in line to change my party affiliation?
I'm used to dismissing the lunatic fringe on both sides. If Kerry had won, we wouldn't have the national language changed to French and now that Bush has been re-elected, we are not going to ship all homosexuals to their own island. But when people like O'Donnell and McLauhlin start chipping at the edge, it does make me wonder whether the democratics put any merit into John Kerry's words just a few days ago,
" . . .the need, the desperate need, for unity for finding the common ground, coming together".
Maybe it was an honest mistake - just for the record, it was a CONcession speech, not a SUCcession speech.
Posted by: Lisa J. at November 8, 2004 12:38 PM