Are rabid Democrats out-Foxing themselves?
Economics Nobel winner Paul Krugman in his latest column – "From Laffer Curve to Buffalo killings" — states that the New York Times has documented that Tucker Carlson has “amplified the doctrine of replacement theory more than 400 times” on his television show at 8 p.m. on Fox News each weekday evening. Forget about the craziness of voodoo economics – the craziness is someone from the New York Times watching Tucker’s show over and over. It reminds me of the Ludovico Technique, from the 1971 classic film – a Clockwork Orange. Alex is the protagonist who is a school-skipping, parent-defying delinquent and after all other methods of correcting his behavior fail – a last-resort method is used.
The technique requires the subject to be strapped in a chair with his eyes held open while watching prepared scenes of extreme violence. Alex was eventually “cured” of his delinquent ways, though the movie ends leaving some doubt for the viewers. The cure is merely an outside show for appearances sake. For there really is no way to make a tiger change his stripes. Perhaps the same was required of that Times worker who had the dubious task of counting the number of times something was said on Tucker’s show. The question becomes whether, after aversion therapy on being a Republican from Tucker Carlson, the Times employee quit his job and changed his voter registration card to Republican. Was the result the same as it was for Alex — a total cure? Or is it even possible to suggest that this can be done?
Paul Krugman writes “the embrace of crank economics presaged the general moral collapse of the Republican establishment.” Democrats used to say the same thing when Rush Limbaugh was broadcasting. What they failed to realize is that Rush was on from noon to 3 p.m. and that those are working hours for Republicans. The idea of telling my assistant “Yes tell him I will call him back in about 15 minutes when Rush takes a break because he is in the middle of a very important monologue” just does not happen.
Remember Dustin Hoffman’s Academy Award winning performance of autistic Ray, whose brilliant and conniving brother is Tom Cruise, in the 1988 film Rainman? Ray had to watch the show The People’s Court at 5 o’clock or he would fall into a severe panic attack.
Republicans are regular folks, capable of independent thought and intellectual reasoning, despite being subject to the voluntary aversion therapy of the Fox News evening line up of Tucker, Hannity and Laura Ingrahm.
One last thing. – No, wait. Tucker's on. Can we talk tomorrow?
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