Narcissistic Parasites

by digby

Economist Robert Frank, creative thinker and all around nice guy (and friend of this blog) went into the Lion’s Den today and found that the beast was rabidly foaming at the mouth:

I’ve been writing about this phenomenon for a while now. It’s an outgrowth of puerile Randism. These people really believe they are something very, very special. More absurdly, they really believe they work harder than everyone else. That’s right, a moronic, blow dried FOX TV celebrity who spends more time with a tailor and manicurist in one week than most people spend in a lifetime, considers himself to be wealthy and successful not because he’s a TV performer who got lucky, but because he’s superior to everyone who makes less money than him. Indeed, these overpaid, Galt-worshipping wingnuts actually think they produce something and what they produce is unique and important.

If there is anyone in the world who should be thanking his lucky, lucky stars that Rupert Murdoch created a TV propaganda arm to protect the aristocracy and decided to hire a bunch of vapid spokesmodels to parrot talking points, it’s a FOX News gasbag. John Galt would call such people parasites — and in this case, he wouldn’t be wrong.

Another case in point: