Cultural Gadfly

Until I finish my next post on Bonaventure.

Go watch Michelle Malkin on “The View” this morning. As the video starts, you want to fear for her soul, but she grabbed Whoopi and Behar by their squawking beaks and just didn’t let go. She was talking about her new book, “Culture of Corruption,” comparing the glaring disparity in White Knight Barry’s (and before you worry Professor Gates, white is a reference to purity and innocence here, not the KKK) campaign promises and his actual governing administration. The opposition tried to throw everything Michelle said back at her with some reference to, “well what about Bush…” which has only the barest of comparison. Suppose Bush really was so corrupt and Michelle didn’t write a book about it, would that make Obama any less stained (and Professor Gates, that’s a reference to mud, not skin color…)? Whoopi tried to comment on Michelle’s accusation that Obama’s administration is the worst in history. Too bad Michelle never said anything remotely to that effect, and Whoopi tried to pass it off as a note which had been given her from backstage. Really? You want to showcase all at once that you didn’t read the book your guest wrote and that your production crew is biased and has the research skills of a high school freshman?

The thing that annoyed me was the insufferable tone in Behar’s voice when she tried to say that the Iraq War was/is somehow a huge corruption of Bush’s administration. Now it (along with all the other “yes but Bush did…” comments) was an implicit admission that Barry’s administration is just as bad as Michelle contends, but she had an air of superiority that rung heavy with “well isn’t it obvious that Iraq was horrible, misguided, a war crime, immensely foolish and evily brilliant” (I wish they’d at least stick with one criticism of Bush and run with it, he can’t be both a nitwit and a Bond villian at the same time. For more information please see: Logical Fallacy, non-contradiction, principle of). I fail to see how, even if at its realistic worst the Iraq War was poor strategic policy, it can be equated with Watergate. But, y’know, she’s a middle age woman who’s only claim to fame is as a psuedo-journalist and comedian. She obviously knows more about foreign policy than, y’know, generals.

Guess because Behar’s not very attractive that makes her much smarter than Michelle Malkin.

Categories: Art, Comedy, Culture, Foreign Policy, Main Stream Media, Miscellany, Obama Craziness, Politics \\ Tags: Barack Obama, Culture of Corruption, Family Guy, George Bush, Henry Gates, Hot Air, Iraq, Joy Behar, Michelle Malkin, The View, Whoopi Goldberg