American Politics Journal -- Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth at FOX News Channel

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Pundit Pap SPECIAL!
Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth
at FOX News Channel
By Jeff Koopersmith

Thursday, May 24, 2001 --Washington, DC (APJP) -- The first thing I saw this morning when I turned on the laughable FOX "News" channel was a gaggle of three morons making fun of Rev. Al Sharpton, whom they misrepresented as "a New York black leader" but who has a national profile (and a helluva lot more respect from most people than this FOX news outfit dares to admit), who was jailed in Puerto Rico for demonstrating against the armed forces for using the populated island of Vieques as a target.

Now, I'll admit it -- I don't particularly care about the island. But to see three lily- white goons with IQs less than 67 is racist, ignorant and in poor taste.

Next they began -- no doubt on the instructions from some in- house PR man from the RNC -- to rip Senator Jim Jeffords (at that point still R- VT), one of the most respected men in the Senate, for following his conscience and disassociating himself from the GOP, a party with an operating apparatus that resembles Gestapo- style "enforcers" rather than an American political party. Jeffords was leaving the Party for quite justified reasons. Yes, he wants to be the governor of Vermont. The folks at FOX think it's just terrible that Jeffords supported national health care -- but not "Hillary's" plan, as the FOX blowhards said mockingly.

Of course, all they could do was resort to cheap- shot put- downs -- this is FOX's "fair and balanced" way of avoiding the REAL issue: George W. Bush is a moron. An imbecile. An unrecovered, brain- damaged boozer. He blew it. That's what FOX News should have been reporting -- but, of course, when you are a whore of the right wing, you stick with the Jim Gilmore- Trent Lott- Tom DeLay- approved script.

Fess up, boys!

Listen to Fred "Balanced" Barnes: "the Jeffords recognition . . . is more good than bad." Who is he speaking for? Fox?

You betcha.

The Jeffords jump is a 100% PLUS for the Democrats. But these Beltway idiots talk instead about the House continuing to be controlled by the GOP -- and ignore the FACT that even this is in jeopardy. They don't want you to know that Democrat leadership have made a lot of progress in urging 14 members of the House to seriously consider a move from the Republican to the Democrat column -- on not only issues of "conscience" but the undercurrent issue: the aftermath of the attempted lynching of Bill Clinton.

The inevitability of the GOP's collapse -- for good -- is taught in universities across the country (unless they are named Bob Jones or Pepperdine). One only need look at history: as the world grows more interdependent, the need for cross- border concerns about health, social programs and education -- all Democrat ideals -- grows. The same is true about labor. The Republican Party, because of its intransigence, inflexibility, and underlying bigotry, is doomed -- and is now committing suicide under the watch of a D (not C as he claims) student named George DumbBellYuh Bush.

Instead, FOX continues to carry water for the idiot -- and is hurting his "real American" Australian pimp Rupert Murdoch and his entire media empire by broadcasting this garbage.

Then some silly loudmouth on the Market beat for FOX told us that we are going to hear about Wall Street fretting over Jim Jeffords defection. I laughed out loud. What a damn joke. Does this "journalist" really believe that Wall Street gives a damn whether anyone in particular is in power?

They don't.

They control the power.

Oh, God! Brit Hume was up early -- and ranting like a stuck wild peccary. He couldn't think of "anything so consequential" as the Jeffords' departure from the Party of Himmler -- which only serves to show Hume's enormous ignorance and lack of study. Several times, large movements of dozens of members of Congress have occurred in American history.

And then Jeffords spoke. We saw and heard something we almost never see on FOX News: the truth. Jeffords reminisced about the way the GOP used to be -- not the abortion of a political party it is now. He didn't talk about the bogus POTUS's snubbing him at an award ceremony for a Vermont teacher, as the FOX vultures took such pleasure in "reporting" -- the sort of "factoid" that is used to build a "fair and balanced" house of cards called a LIE -- like the hundreds they broadcast each day.

Jeffords said that it had been a struggle to deal with the leaders of the GOP. He was specifically referring to the horrible Trent Lott, who in effect presides over Mississippi, the most illiterate state in the Union -- and that's the way Lott likes it, or he would have gone out of his way to fight illiteracy decades ago.

Jeffords said he disagrees with Bush and his Party on EVERY important issue, particularly education.

Now, let's see how Kim Hume's and Ken LaCorte's FOX ATTACK DOGS treated Jeffords. Would they talk about the GOP plants in the audience? The few "booers?" Would they interview them and see who told them to come down to a room packed with independent thinkers?

Brit Hume went first. He told us that Jeffords' remarks about Bush "changing everything" for him was a very negative statement. Hume claimed that Jeffords "could do business" with the Democrats and Clinton under the Clinton Administration - as if there were any shame in that. Then, said Hume, came Bush -- and he couldn't stop Bush's proposals (well, maybe because they smacked of fascism, Brit). Hume called tax reductions (which hurt the poor the most) the GOP's "greatest ideal" - - then claimed that education is also a GOP ideal. I couldn't help but laugh at this lie from Hume, nor his follow-up: that Jeffords' statement that the US cannot afford to give tax money back to what Hume called "the American people" was (and here he used his most snide tone) "remarkable."

So that's it: Hume thinks it's not "remarkable" to tax the poor and the middle class, give then back a "tax cut" that can hardly cover the cost increase for a tank of gasoline, and then turn around and gut their social programs.

Anne Richards was a guest -- and Clifford May (the Hermann Goering of the GOP) smiled as he took the first spin point position. Gee, I wonder why he got to go first? Anne said that Jeffords' talk was moving, and principled.

Then Hume showed just how dumb he truly is: he said that Jeffords will still vote the way he always has so Bush can get his programs through eventually anyway. What a riot! And what a moron.

The truth is that the Democrats in the Senate will now take fully justifiable vengeance on Bush and his Neo-Nazi handlers. Nothing will move in Congress -- nothing -- unless it's liberal enough, intelligent enough, benevolent enough, and "compassionate" enough. Period. And in doing so, they will reveal to the nation just how evil the leaders, spokesvipers, and financiers of the ultra-right wing of the Republican Party are.

This is the end of the Bush agenda. This is the end of the GOP's control of Congress -- in both houses.

Write than down, LaCorte. Write that down, Roger Ailes. Because that what's going to happen.

I've spent 35 years in Washington in almost every imaginable position in the area of legislative analysis.

I've known every President since Nixon.

I can tell you this: the GOP Reign of Terror is over.

And by the way: I am a registered Republican, and I prefer to stay inside and fight.

Unlike you, Brit Hume. Unlike you, Kim Hume. Unlike you, LaCorte. Unlike you, Ailes. Unlike you and your pals at FOX, so busy today wailing and gnashing your teeth.

End of story.