hugh hewitt drives the bulls

if you haven't been paying attention to the eason jordan kerfluffle, visit Hugh Hewitt's website for basically the entire story, because it really has been Hugh who has been moving this thing along, although you can really tell when a story has been blogstreamed when Instapundit comments on it, which I believe he has, today or the other day or something along those lines. The amazing thing about the Eason Jordan incident is that the MSM have now proven themselves to be the final defenders of the Maginot Line--if CNN did not believe in its' own infallibility and capability to decide what is news and what isn't, none of this would be a problem. CNN would have an archived website that held all of their video footage, footage of executives giving speeches, all the collected archives of CNN's years of broadcasting, and everything that's ever been written on CNN's website.
Instead, apparent silence. Indeed, since I refuse to watch any form of television, I really have to take everybody's word that CNN isn't saying anything about it. But I believe it. I always thought that for someone to be a postmodern liberal, they had to have some kind of rationalization malfunction--the imposition of their values upon the world at large makes their existence within that world very fragile. Hence the Left's near total submersion in the culture of victimhood, and their humorlessness--there can be no deviation from their worldview. Any deviation results in the gears getting completely jammed. Hence CBS's inability to just fire Dan Rather and say, "You know, we've been leading you all by the chain for the past thirty years or so, and this last little situation pretty much illustrated our entire sordid political agenda. We know we can't make up for the past thirty years of brainwashing, but at least from now on, we'll own up to the fact that we believe certain things and are going to advocate them and we're not ashamed of it, but we are no longer going to hold high the standard of objectivity against everyone else's partisanship. We are just as partisan as everyone else and we're proud that we can be such in America."
But instead, silence. Which leads me to believe that a prediction I made before the election (before I started blogging, so you can either take me at my word or not--accountability, accountability, accountability) and many others made: if Dubya wins the Left will become unhinged. I watched the election and thought to myself, if this is how they are behaving now, what will they be saying when Dubya begins to enact his priorities without even hearing their objections? How far will they go to marginalize themselves and what will make it stop?
The various factions within the Democratic Party have more than frayed--they are on the verge of unravelling. The red-state Democratic Senators (just look at their voting records on the Bush tort-reform legislation that just passed the Senate) are cowering, fearing that Dean's DeaNiaC's will only pull the plug out of the already leaking tub--and then what? Sixty plus GOP Senators and an emboldened President Bush who would have two free years to pursue an even greater agenda? Pshah. And you thought that the Left's current behavior was reprehensible. If the aggregate Left continues its march against history, then history will just have to judge them harshly, which it seems, history is already doing.
For how long has the Left been bereft, bankrupt, totally and utterly devoid of any ideas? For how long has the Left paraded around, holding their own high moral standards as the epitome of public policy, and for how long will the myth that only the Left possesses the ethics and pragmatic capabilities to solve postmodern man's problem persist? How much longer? How much longer before every conservative/libertarian just decides to hell with the popular culture, who cares what's popular?
Apparently we do. Apparently everyone does. But, I blather and blather and blather and nothing really gets said. Worse, nothing really gets done. This makes me think of that stupid movie with Ethan Hawke and Winona Ryder, Reality Bites, and on the soundtrack, Ethan Hawke sings a prog/indie rock song where he shouts something about not voting or was it maybe explaining his apathy, in any case, he shouts something about the "Republicrats and the Demicans" and at the time, I almost thought it was inventive. I was dismayed at Mr. Newt's tactical overreach during the budget crises of 1995/96 and their inability to counter the smooth talker that was el Bubba, and I thought to myself, Now you know, really, historically, the two parties have really not been all that different. It's not as if the Democrats completely rewrote the rule book during their sixty or so years of dominance. They were handed the modern state's political and regulatory structures--they didn't create them, Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressives, the true Progressives did. And it's not as if the Republicans are apparently ever going to reorganize the federal government into an efficient mechanism so why not join Ethan Hawke in his apathy?
Like I said, for a genuine liberal, a liberal of the best, most accurate definition of the word, Bill Clinton's years as President were a terrible time. What did the Left advocate in the 90s? Social Security, Medicate, education and the environment. How many times did that stupid phrase, focus grouped and studied and probed and analyzed, how many times did that get uttered? And to what end? So Clinton could garner only 49% of the popular vote during supposedly the longest peacetime expansion in American history? And the Left is saying that Bush winning 51% isn't enough of a mandate? Somebody give me a bottle of valium right now before my head just spins right off my neck.
For those of you who think that Ted Kennedy represents a true liberal, go have your vision checked. Or, as James Taranto over the Best of the Web says "Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment." The Left has become the reactionary force in the world while the Right has become the progressive force. The poles of politics, just like the Earth's, apparently flip as well. Let us only hope that the Right does not become as entrenched and as unwilling to accept change and adapt to it as the Democrats have. Otherwise, with both parties out of the loop on the fact that the world is changing very rapidly. Well, I wanna move somewhere else, preferably someplace tropical with warm sandy beaches and the drinks with the little straw hats in them. Well, Avi, we've got sandy beaches. That's a twenty point movie quote folks.