Which is all very thrilling, I’m sure, especially if you ignore the reality that the trouble with "conservatism" is that it’s backwards and bigoted. Hewitt misses this point, though, in much the same way that horrible drunken stupid chimpanzees often miss the point that it’s not their lack of a rocketship that prevents them from blasting off to the Planet of Endless Bananas.
Here is Hugh’s latest entry in this vein, or perhaps clogged artery:
The heads of the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Pete Sessions and John Cornyn respectively, as well as whomever ends up running the RNC ought to gather Bock, DeMoss, All, Neppell and Ruffini in a room with their staffs on a monthly basis to learn and refine the tools of the new media age. When Congressman Sessions, Senator Cornyn and Chairman-to-be-named later are sending out Tweets that actually convey key info on candidates and races for 2010, I’ll know the GOP has turned the technological corner.
Ahem. Look, sorry Hugh, all the Twittering in the world won’t keep anyone from noticing that the GOP has Box Turtle John Cornyn and "There Is No Financial Crisis" Pete Sessions in charge. Twitter cannot transmute shit to gold. Often enough Twitter can’t transmute shit into English.
A few years ago Hugh wrote a very silly book called "Blog" that was all about how "conservatives" were going to seize upon this exciting "blog" technology and use it to "swarm" all over the "MSM" and thereby Harness the Power of NEW TECHNOLOGY to Usher in a Glorious New Conservative Era of Glorious New Conservative Gloriousness! Huzzah!
Didn’t turn out like that, did it. That is probably because Conservatives believe in asinine and hateful things, like that gays don’t deserve to marry, global climate change is a lie, the next president of the US is a Musselman Marxist, preventive war run by incompetents and profiteers based on bullshit is cool if it’s dishonestly aimed at "Islamicists," or that the "MSM" is in the tank for Dems, or a whole lot of other bullshit.
Whatever. Go ahead, Twitter into a tizzy, guys. You’ve already tried that, you know, and it didn’t work.
An insufficient use of Twitter is not why "Conservatism" has failed. "Conservatism" has failed because it cannot cope with any reality besides that of making a cushy living by selling absurd books, websites, and radio programs to a dwindling minority of meanspirited lunatics. Period.
Incidentally, I’ll be doing Thursday as well as Saturday Late Nights for a while, something that really should give pause to anyone who believes that the Powers That Be at FDL have any clue what they’re doing. Shazam!
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Sorry Hugh, you ain’t no little Jack Horner and that ain’t no plum on your thumb.
Alas, poor Hewitt. He has not wit to see that it is ideas, not technology, that drives movements and people who do it.
LOL!
thers! woohoo to the thursdays in addition to sat posts
ThursdayThers!
Bring it on!
Shouldn’t that be “whoever” as it’s the subject not the object? It’s been a long time since I’ve diagrammed sentences so I could be mistaken.
By the way, how did he get his thumb up his ass with his head already firmly lodged there?
Dang do I have a crap-tastic Internets connection…
Huzzah, hallelujah, and laughs and giggles!
thumbsucker is my guess
It’s collapsible.
:( worse than dialup like last week?
It is Crittendon the Cretin clogging you tubez.
On the substance of the issue, there was a panel on cspan a day or so ago critiquing the 08 prez campaign. A questioner from the audience asked Trippi why, since Dean was the one who discovered the power of the internet, didn’t do better in 04. His answer was quite revealing. He said that just because they realized its power, didn’t mean they would know how to take full advantage of it that early. In other words, there is a learning period between the recognition and the best practices. He reminded that YouTube didn’t exist in 04, just one example of how rapidly the technology changes.
So if the Rs expect to go into a room and learn how to do it, they will be completely out of date by 10 and 12.
By the way, how did he get his thumb up his ass with his head already firmly lodged there?
Microcephaly.
Should have a cable connection but service is teh suck. It’s fine for days, weeks, but then goes to hell.
Coupled with macroassity.
Yes
His real name is Hugh Jass.
ROFLMAO
I just think there’s a disconnect between the mindset that says “global warming is lies” and “we’re cutting edge with technology”!
What happens is you get fantastic looking technology but no substance. “Conservatives” have nothing to say that’s not crazy.
Ann Coulter is bionic?
Wherein lies the crux of the matter. When all you have on offer is stupid and crazy (I’m looking at you Sarah and John), it does not matter how slick your marketing is.
you think a/c is fantastic looking?
Firepups! Thers! Thursday night posting is good news (it’s my “Friday”)
Kinda related, i’ve been struck with the notion that the new symbol of the GOP should be a giraffe. That’s about the length of neck it takes for how far up the average GOPer’s head is lodged.
That too. There are so many levels on which Hewitt’s assertion is bogus. But, hey, if they can delude themselves that all they need is new technology and not a new message, I couldn’t be happier.
I knew that joke was going to get me into trouble.
Withdrawn.
She ain’t fantastic looking…
And now my connection is back. This is odd…
Actually, I think it should be the ostrich.
Crittenden responded BTW. He is easily baited, the poor dope.
might have had something with that curse i was muttering under my breath
even cable companies know not to fuck around when dealing with the mother’s curse
Glad I scrolled down; I was going to post that. As it is, I’ll second the motion.
They have already deluded themselves that the route to success is even more stupid and crazy. I guess scaring the crap out of 53% of the people was not enough for them.
Saw that. Was tempted to post a response over there informing him that it was obvious that English was not his primary language. Decided I already had enough spam in my email.
Yes, watching that carefully. I hope the leftie blogs don’t cherry pick the evidence of R insanity. I saw a panel of Rs discussing what went wrong and they made much more sense than the stuff one normally sees. I don’t know how much influence those folks have though. They were involved in campaigns, but no R heavy hitters.
heh. Excellent suggestion. Adds the symbolism of “bird-brained.”
I am basing my impression mostly on MSM reporting and quotes from the party congressional leadership. The fact that 64% of Republicans favor Palin in 1012 is encouraging.
He has just a really big ass.
Did their explanations include the stoking of nativist racist hatred and the lowest possible respect for intellectual rigor?
They are sill trying to deal with the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.
There, fixed it for you.
Annnnd… now I just waited forever for the page to reload. Sorry gang, this is too irksome. Niters.
You professor types… shesh. ;)
Yes on the former. One panelist said they’d never get the Latino vote if talk radio kept spewing anti-immigrant hate.
the whole things goes to how conservatives process things………. they have a fixed world view and keep changing the facts to justify their world view……
That is why they never get it…….. because they cannot change their world view….
g’nite thers – i’ll have to work on that mother’s curse to give your internet company incentive to uphold their end of the forking contract
They won’t get it neither if they keep supporting hateful legislation.
There is hope for them if the right (correct) wing of the party gains the big chair.
Damn.
Yes. That’s why I’m watching so carefully. Like us on the left, there are plenty of reasonable people on the right who have been stuck in the wilderness. If they get control of the R party, then the Ds will have to stop being too dumb to live, and I have no confidence that will happen in my lifetime.
That sounds like the Wall Street wing of the party. They really aren’t happy with the direction of the party, but right now they have largely lost control over things. The social conservatives have the numbers and are dominating the debate at present.
exactly
Nite Thers.
Typo or snark? You be the judge.
Actually were no Wall Streeters on that panel. (And why should the Wall Streeters go for the Rs when they own Obama and certain D senators who shall remain nameless.) The moderator was a R pollster from Indiana and panelists seem like a smattering from all over.
Dyam. I’m too lazy to look for the link.
ROFLMAO!
Did not mean literal Wall Street executives, though they are in that wing. I was referring to the money boys, the “financial conservatives”. The low taxes, little regulation of business wing of the party mostly interested in maintaining the life styles of multimillionaires and billionaires. That is where most of the brains in the Republican Party are. They are also divided between Romney moderates and Nordquist nutjobs, but tend to be the most moderate wing of the party.
Hewitt = douchebag
Nah. He is clearly an enema bag.
No, that didn’t seem to be a dominate representation. I did try to look for the link but I can’t remember enough about it to find it. Just seemed to be 4-5 sensible Rs from pollster, campaign worker, can’t remember the rest, who had sensible diagnoses of what has been going wrong. The pollster-moderator endeared herself to me by saying that “drill-baby-drill” may have been popular in the moment, which happened to be at the peak of oil prices, but would not satisfy voters as a longer run energy policy.
Hmmm. Certainly not in touch with the Rethug congressional leadership who seem to be going for all out over the top crazy (at least based on their public statements). Hard to say how many there are like those you describe in the party, but they do not seem to represent either the majority nor those in power in the party. Which is good for us and for the country.
Besides being the least well conceived political taunt in history, since no one in the party could escape the wrath of the whatever when 250,000 barrels of light sweet crude washes ashore in Myrtle Beach.
Now, now, now, Newtie. You know that never, ever happens. The oil company executives told us so.
Uh-huh. I found myself doing a little impromptu parsing, too. People can’t bring themselves to say ‘me’, but a gratuitous ‘whom’ makes ‘em look all erudite. I guess.
Well kids…. its been fun lurking…… going to head off to bed….. good night everyone…..
Imelda “Brittney” Palin:
“Enron? What’s an Enron?”
Night, Katymine.
Not at all in touch with top congressional Rs, which is why I said there were no heavy hitters. But there are bound to be a lot of R worker bees like those panelists who are working below the usual radar to rescue their party. We need to keep track of them (next time I’ll save the info so I can link) because that’s the competition for Ds, not the crazy headliners.
{{{{{{{katymine}}}}}}}
feel better, dear
g’nite (((katymine)))
Don’t be dissing Brittney like that. She at least had some talent, however limited and overproduced.
Last time I went to the beach in Florida was about 30 or 40 years ago. I was staying in a high rise hotel on the beach in Miami or thereabouts. I found tar balls on my feet after I walked in the ocean. Spent the rest of the visit at the pool.
Grammarians unite!
That’s true. Hey, as long as she stops getting her picture taken exiting limousines, me and Brittney are cool.
Nighters, sweet katymine.
You have a point, though I think they will more likely be driven out of the party. Social conservatives and neocons seem to have the numbers and the power right now. There are also enough whackjob millionaires like Scaife to bankroll them to keep them dominant.
according to trex, the talent lies within her producer’s protools:
As an actual singer, I find these distinctions to be important. Britney Spears (alleged) singing “voice” is a tiny, pathetic wisp of digital static that is completely incapable of surviving on its own outside of the highly processed confines of her producers’ Pro-Tools rig. Okay?
Never really cared about her and still don’t, but really thought all the negative publicity was hugely overblown.
Still more talent than Palin and I was NEVER a fan (hate her music).
double crap – my blockquotes did not take
trex’s words – not mine
judas forking priest, aint no one dugg this yet?
Just watching.
R purges would fall into my schadenfruedefest.
Actually, for the good of the Ds, need respectible R competition. Ds are bad even before the Rs fell apart. Imagine how bad they’ll be with their low morals & intelligence if there is no R competition.
And now for someone with real musical talent. Ana Popovic – perhaps the world only female Serbian blues musician.
i love ana – featured her one night when i first started front paging – iirc, she is back touring now that she has had her baby
I have 2-3 of her CDs. Really talented and plays a mean guitar.
this is one of my favorites that she has done
fork – that video is no longer available :(
the fantastic lurk found the video
Here is another fav, Sue Foley.
Actually almost posted that one myself. 8-)
dr dick – here is ana, sue and candye kane jamming
Wish there was a method on cable TV that, like making it childproof, you could also make it Christmas program proof.
God Damn, good golly Ms Molly, that much estrogen could hurt you.
Isn’t she great?
AND if someone could do something about Christmas songs in stores, I’d be about set for the season.
Sure fire cure for that: don’t enter a store after Halloween.
Here is a little something else that is playing on my CD player right now, Angela Strehli.
fork – no utube of angela with stevie ray vaughan at carnegie hall
tis a great forking cd – stevie playing carnegie on his birthday
Here’s a little more obscure blues, Melvin Taylor.
More favs from the CD player: Lucky Peterson.
dirty boogie coming up on kpig – here is the player
cartoon upstairs
And I leave you with Eric Gales. Good night all.
Hewitt misses this point, though, in much the same way that horrible drunken stupid chimpanzees often miss the point that it’s not their lack of a rocketship that prevents them from blasting off to the Planet of Endless Bananas.
This quote has been officially entered into the lexicon, attributed this day to Thers. Swap out Dobson, Cornyn, Limbaugh, et al, for Hewitt and it still holds.
Flexible quotes are really easy to use, especially when nearly any variation is true.
It’s a Lincolnesque beauty.
Welcome.
the reality that the trouble with “conservatism” is that it’s backwards and bigoted.
calling conservatism “backward” is an opinion. To them, its not backward at all – it is their preferred way of existence. What conservatism is and stands for is hate, violence, greed, ignorance, self-absorption, fear, and division. These are the fundamental characteristics manifest in the conservative personality. Conservatives’ correctly cited bigotry falls under their hate fundamental, but so does all their intolerance and their authoritarian drive to manipulate the lives of others.
Yeah, but the idea of gathering that particular group of people together in one room is kind of attractive. If that room were in, say, Leavenworth Prison and we could lock the door and throw away the key . . . .
Thers, this one belongs in the Snark Hall of Fame. Really. Too bad the Powers That Be at FDL haven’t a clue how to get it in there . . .
My guess is that when Hugh Hewitt mentioned Twitter, he meant using twittering suck-ups like Mark Halperin.