Will Krauthammer hand himself, Limbaugh and others “Politically Stupid” award for defending BP?
June 19, 2010 4:18 pm ET by Karl Frisch
As Mediaite’s Frances Martel noted today, Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer gave Rep. Joe Barton’s apology to BP the “Most Politically Stupid Statement of the Year” award, saying:
I think that wins the award for the Most Politically Stupid Statement of the Year and we can retire it right now, in June. It’s actually astonishing. The guy apologized and then he apologizes for his apology in one day. I think that’s the world indoor record for that. Look, you don’t express sympathy for a corporation that is sort of soiled and destroyed, and that is destroying the Gulf Coast.
Interesting.
I wonder if Krauthammer is planning a full-blown awards show, perhaps on the low-rated Fox Business Network, for the large number of media conservative like Rush Limbaugh and ummm himself who have come to BP’s defense?
Here’s a line-up he could start with though the list will likely grow in the days and weeks to come:
- Krauthammer compared the BP hearings to "Inca ritual slaughter."
- Limbaugh: BP hearings are a "show trial. ... This is what happened in Stalinist Russia."
- Bill Kristol says he is "open-minded to the notion that BP is being persecuted."
- Michael Savage said, "The Democrats have held a Stalinist show trial against BP. ... They're very, very clever devils indeed."
- Mark Levin claimed "Soviet-style spectacle" of BP hearings is part of "a huge cover-up."
- Erick Erickson wrote, "Only thing separating" BP hearing from "Soviet show trial" is that Hayward "walked out without any lead in him."
- Glenn Beck compared BP hearings to McCarthy hearings, feeding Christians to lions and said "[W]e've got Salem witch trials going on in Washington, D.C." and that lawmakers in BP hearing "will be held in front of an eternal judge" and "will be praying" for "the mercy of Guantánamo."
- Douglas Urbanski said, "Rush was accurate" in calling hearings "Soviet-style public trial. ... It was horrible to watch."
- Stuart Varney said he federal government has "demonized" and "looted" BP
- Fred Barnes' gave advice to Obama, telling him to "Stop demonizing BP."
- Newsmax's Ronald Kessler wrote that Obama has "confused the good guys with the bad guys by demonizing BP."
- Jonathan Hoenig said the Congressional hearings are "about humiliating CEOs and demonizing big oil."
- Sarah Palin said "[W]e can't afford to demonize" BP.
- Monica Crowley said "[T]his is his default position: demonize BP.”
Previously:
The idea that their base deserves to have this tragedy befall them, that they in effect brought it on themselves by falling so far from the Faux Con faith that they let a black man be elected to their White House! I'm surprised they haven't done this yet. It's the next logical step. Perhaps the problem is that none of them are brave enough. I'd bet money that Glenn Beck is crazy enough, though. And if he does it, Limbaugh will have to do it, too, just to 'keep up with the Joneses'. And there goes the neighborhood.
For now, though, it's just a watching game. Should be fun to watch, at least!
The wingnuts do get in lockstep with their talking points, gotta hand them that. Stalinist show trial might sound looney if one person said it, but when everybody's saying it, there must be something to it.
I especially like the "witch hunt" and "Salem witch trials" comparisons. The implication is that a hysterical persecution of innocent parties is taking place.
Sure, Hayward makes $37 million a year--awarded to him by his corporate cronies on the Board, and the Compensation Consultant who licks his boots. The other execs cash out as well.
Give the poor peasant his life back!! <end sarc>
He's displayed this behavior before, repeating his prefabricated witticisms, expecting that noone will notice he's used them before. He particularly likes to drag out the infamous william borah quote to apply to whatever that moment's little Hitler, whether it be Saddam, China, Kim Jong Il, etc. He's done it repeatedly, always pretending it was a spontaneous reaction to the grave threat we now face from enemy x.
Where does he get the courage to be such a phony? Maybe he's too stupid to know better? But this just proves, that no matter how much of an idiot you are, with the right connections, the right opinions and the ability to seem wise, you can be a respected "intellectual" among the village elites.
/rant over.
Well, he's mostly a pundit on Fox, where being a phony and being wrong are both in the "plus" column. He's constantly rewarded for being an idiot, as long as he sticks to Fox.
My guess? Ummmm, no