On last night’s program, Jon Stewart had an uncontrollable outbreak of giggling in his efforts to tie Glenn Beck’s “conservatism” in with a “libertarian” philosophy. That the highly-unfocused Beck has tried to pass himself off as a libertarian — something even Ronald Reagan tried to do for himself! — confirmed how utterly desperate the statists have become in their efforts to destroy the only intellectually-respectable source of criticism of the omnipotent state. Taking apart the word “libertarian,” Stewart finally settled on the final syllables of the word: “arian,” as in “aryan,” his infectious giggling spread to his audience in what must have seemed a self-congratulatory response to ideas he seems unable to challenge on substantive grounds.
Like his colleagues over at MSNBC — all having performed wonderfully during the Bush administration — criticism of the state ends at partisan boundary lines. As the excesses and absurdities of the Obama administration escalate, these erstwhile critics continue their focus upon . . . figures from the Bush administration! These television personalities are paid well to keep Boobus entertained, all the time keeping him content to stay within the boundaries of establishment-serving opinion. Whatever other secret sentiments they might harbor, they remember what happened to Bill Maher: when he uttered the only ”politically incorrect” words I ever heard him speak, he was immediately fired!
