Let's drop in on some Fox Fiction News for some comic relief.
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Charles Krauthammer beat the impeachment drum . . . by likening undocumented immigrants to murderers.
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November 15, 2014
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Fox News loves Charles Krauthammer because they think he has the ability to sound rational, smart and calm while saying totally bonkers things.
Fox thinks he gives them a veneer of respectability.
Fox also thought that of George Will, who calmly said insane things like how campus rape victims enjoy “special status.”
So, two Fox "smarties," Megyn Kelly and Charles Krauthammer, were discussing their favorite topic this week, which is how the hell can we get rid of this black president, and when can we start the impeachment proceedings?
This week’s “impeachable offense” that has so addled their uni-brain is the imminent prospect of Obama taking executive action to shield five million undocumented immigrants from being deported.
It's been done before, by both Reagon and Bush, but somehow, when Obama does it, it's completely different.
“There’s no doubt that what he is doing now is a flagrant assault on the Constitutional system,” Krauthammer said, doing his best imitation of a person who actually knows something.
“I’m sure Obama will be able to find a bunch of lawyers who say it is okay.
This is clearly illegal. “
We're sure he will.
Those lawyers will say anything.
Especially when there are plenty of precendents.
But wait, Megyn Kelly has some law background, and it was her turn to try to sound smart.
“There’s no doubt that the president has prosecutorial discretion.
But it’s a sliding scale.
Just as a prosecutor has discretion.
He might decide not to prosecute one murderer.
But if he said he is not going to prosecute any of the murderers, that would be unacceptable.”
So, yeah, she’s comparing undocumented immigrants to murderers.
And no, that is not a mistake.
What it is is unacceptable and disgusting.
Quite apart from the whole impeachment discussion, which is merely ridiculous.
It’s all marketing anyway with those right-wingers.
As Matt Iglesias at Vox explained, making sense is not the point: “What, if anything, that phrase means is difficult to say.
But its political significance is easy to grasp.
All true conservatives hate Obamacare, so if net neutrality is Obamacare for the internet, all true conservatives should rally against it.”
Crazy conspiracy theorist Alex Jones backed Ted Cruz, saying net neutrality reminded him of Hitler.
Because everything Obama does and says and all government regulation remind him of Hitler.
Still, not even conservatives were buying either the Hitler connection nor the Obamacare link, as numerous comments on Cruz’s facebook page attested.
Sample comment from one Jinnie McManus: "Goddammit, stop making my party look like morons and look up net neutrality.
It doesn't mean what you and your speechwriters think it means."
Well, goddammit Jinnie, your party does a goddamn good impersonation of morons.
posted by Dot Calm @ 1:42 PM
