“Look, it’s America – if a person can figure out a way to make
a career out of saying outlandish and stupid things then I guess in a sense
they deserve credit for that – but it doesn’t follow that I’m therefore
obligated to take the stupid things they say seriously. Kim Kardasian has made
a career out of being a shallow narcissist -
I suppose that a person with apparently no skills or talents manages to
do that is in some perverse way deserving of credit, but even if that thought
doesn’t drive you to suicide from contemplating the ridiculousness of our
culture, you’re still not required to see the fat assed idiot as somehow
redeemed and suddenly worth listening to. Limbaugh and Hannity and Coulter etc
etc are the fat assed idiots of conservative media - they say outlandish and stupid things, they
craft incoherent arguments in service of bad ideas that are nothing more than
angry, empty rhetoric dressed up as ideas – they’ve made good careers doing so
because there’s a cohort of voters out there mired in simplistic thinking and
therefore easily fooled – Bernie Sanders prospered for the exact same reason.
Do Hannity et al then expect me to take Bernie seriously because his idiocy was
rewarded by fools? Because that’s the argument they’re gonna have to make if
they expect me to start listening to them for any other reason than to sadly
marvel at how absolutely degraded political debate is right now in this country
– hell in Western democracies everywhere. It’s a damn crisis far as I’m
concerned.”
