It doesn't seem to matter to America's rabid right wing that they got what they wanted: a man in the White House who they believe will magically solve all the problems bedeviling their crumbling empire. No, for them that is only the beginning. Until all bow before them in abject and utter obeisance, victory is not total and nor really all that sweet.
Such would appear to be the current bee in the mad bonnet of one of their chief spokesmen, television demagogue Bill O'Reilly, who is now taking extreme exception to those performers (and there are apparently plenty of them) who are refusing the invitation to perform at the Orange One's inauguration.
Watch below as the "No Spin" meister fulminates, characterizing as Un-American those who are now exercising their extant but perhaps endangered democratic right not to respond positively to Donald Trump's invitation. It gets really entertaining when conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer doesn't play along with O'Reilly:
"Un-American," Lorne. I wonder if O'Reilly knows that Krauthammer got his Bachelors degree from McGill -- where he edited the student newspaper, the McGill Daily?
ReplyDeleteFor O'Reilly, that would be all the explanation necessary for Krauthammer's apostasy, Owen.
DeleteI've been spending a lot of time lately pondering the condition and future of democracy in a world poised on the cusp of political, economic, social and environmental chaos. The wheels are coming off the wagon, Lorne, all of 'em.
ReplyDeleteTrail Blazer left this link on my blog. The Rise and Fall of the American Empire?
https://www.rt.com/usa/372797-societal-collapse-2020-predictions/
Thanks, Mound. I'll check out the link. I just finished Chris Hedges' latest book, Unspeakable, and he leaves little doubt about his belief that collapse is almost inevitable.
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