Mainstreaming McCarthy
by digby
I’d heard about this last week and chalked it up to Loesch and the Breitbart Empire’s ongoing shark jumping contest:
DANA LOESCH: Looking especially at how some of our foreign policy has been handled, Hillary Clinton essentially siding with the Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Egypt, and then it was discovered that her top aide — Huma Abedin — is essentially a member of the female version of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Muslim Sisterhood. All of this — it seems enough to me to pose questions as to why our government is becoming so close with a group that has been so hostile to the United States, has fought against the United States, has sided with terrorists, and is a very oppressive regime that believes in Sharia law.
All right, so she’s just another rightwing liar. Whatever.
And then I turned on the TV yesterday morning and saw her on ABC’s This Week alongside George Will, Ruth Marcus and Donna Brazile as if she were just another establishment Villager. And she was talking:
And — and you want to talk about gaffes. Here we have 41 straight months of unemployment that’s been over 8 percent, which was — the stimulus was supposed to have fixed. In terms of gaffes, it’s not good to have the president get up in front of people during an election cycle and say, well, if you have a small business, you didn’t built that, or as some have tried to say, oh, he took — the Republicans took something out of context. He was talking about the Clinton tax plan, which really actually in context it’s even worse, because he really was referring to his own plan, and the Clinton tax plan, we could — we could get into…
Hookay.
This is just the latest in Driftglass’ enduring series called “Sunday Morning Coming Down” which,among other things, chronicles the mainstreaming of right wing extremism into the public bloodstream. It’s chilling.
I understand that Loesch is an attractive TV presence and craetes the same sort of dangerous frisson that made Ann Coulter such a thrilling green room companion for centrist Village men. But at some point you’d think these bookers would feel just a little bit dirty for putting people like this in America’s living rooms on Sunday morning.
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