Tim "Imagination at Work" Ru$$ert on Hardball

[Neecy]

Whenever this fat turd pops up on any of the GE networks I generally tune out whatever he says, but this evening I heard his voice raised and shrill and briefly looked up. He was leaning forward forcefully and his pumpkin-like face was beaming with a giddy, three-martini kind of joy.

"Now, REPUBLICANS SAY..." he boomed as though he was going to impart Sacred Truth to the audience without a shred of irony, sarcasm or self-dignity. Uh-oh, I thought. He's going to do their dirty work and get out their talking points, his main job at General Electric. "...that if we don't fight them in the Middle East we'll have to fight them here."

Huh?

Now, in any sane world Mike Barnacle would have immediately jumped his ass and said, "Wha----? Isn't that the same bullshit lie they told us to embroil us in Iraq? And NOW it's been modified to include the entire Middle East? We don't even have enough troops to quell Baghdad, and now we're taking on the entire region? Is anyone sane left?"

But, ah, no. Just in case any viewer, horrified at this warlike bellow that would TRULY end 'life as we know it' might have considered putting a check in the D box this November Barnacle goes into this odd, yuck-yuck "Hey, didja read in the Post this morning that Rahm isn't speaking to Howard?" hyuck hyuck hyuck jag.

The war profiteers are about the run amok. The drumrolls we heard prior to Iraq in the media are about to become deafening.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. I heard that too. Russert , don't even get me started.

He really did say with a straight face that classic neoCon line about fighting them there as opposed to here. Russert is a self-parodying twit.