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| Should Dems and libs go out and lie too? No—that would be very stupid. For one thing, Dems and lib wouldn’t be nearly as skillful as Reps, who have spent the past forty years perfecting idiotic themes like the one that Gibson played against Sheehan. Liberal elites! Political correctness! Media bias! Moral equivalence! Pseudo-con screamers have a string of honed bumper stickers which fakers like Gibson can access and play with. In our view, it’s sad that Republicans have let their rhetoric be defined in recent years by the Rushes and the Seans—but it would be utterly stupid for Dems to try to play that game too. And of course, it would be something else; it would be grossly immoral, an abdication of the most basic principles. But so what? Born Losers like Shrum don’t care about that. They care about their fine wine and gourmet meals (see below)—and they love to go out there and posture. Our view here has been clear for years (although it’s been utterly pointless to state it). We think that Dems should try telling the truth—attacking the cycles of lies and deceit that have defined our discourse for the past several decades. Of course, Shrum is the last man on earth to do that; he’s now a regular guest on Hardball, where he plays kissy-poo and huggy-hug-hug with his dim-witted host, Chris Matthews, who did more than any other broadcaster to defeat Shrum’s guy in Campaign 2000 and put George Bush in the White House. No one spread more disinformation or insulted Gore more than Matthews did; indeed, by the fall of 2001, Matthews was even saying, on the Imus show, that Gore "doesn’t look like one of us. He doesn’t seem very American, even.” But so what? Corrupted Born Losers—Born Losers like Shrum—have agreed to make a deal with all this. The mainstream press corps’ turn to the political center-right has only been part of the Democrats’ problems. But people like Shrum would eat live worms before they’d discuss the actual facts concerning press treatment of Clinton/Gore/Kerry. And now, having decided that Dems can’t tell the truth about that, Shrum has come up with a better idea. We should lie about everything else. We should be just like Republicans. Readers, you can be like Rush Limbaugh too. You can be just like John Gibson! Shrum must be the world’s biggest loser. His latest advice is amazingly bad—and it’s an affront against basic values. But so what? To judge from a profile by the Washington Post’s Mark Leibovich, “Shrummy” just may not share your values. Instead, he “loves gourmet food and fine wines and has his suits handmade by a Georgetown tailor,” Leibovich wrote (more below). He also loves to be on TV—and doesn’t much care about telling the truth. You can be just like John Gibson. The born loser Bob Shrum now says so. |