They're Too Lazy to Get a New Dog Whistle

The usually savvy Steve Benen wants the GOP to drop the whole "Obama is lazy thing."

Steve, you're the best, but I want to keep these guys talking. If these guys didn't talk, no one would ever know about the slobbery lips blowing a spit-filled, centuries old dog-whistle. The latest fat white guy to give the rusty/slimy/drippy old thing a wheezing blow bothered to leave Sinecure Inc's lushest country clubs because he was upset that someone would dare suggest that Ann Romney used her money to make her life easier.

Obama's the one who never worked a day in his life. He never earned a penny that wasn't public money. How many fund-raisers does he attend every week? How often does he play basketball and golf? I wish I had that kind of time. He's lazy, but the media won't report that. 

First things first. Fox "News" CEO Roger "I Won the Election for my cousin George W Bush" Ailes is a Bullshitter in the Philosophical sense of the word.

...bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Aisles should ask his cousin W, who thought all kinds of things qualified as hard work, about how hard fundraising is. Ask any politician about their schedule, and the amount of time they have to spend raising money. Roger and his buddies made sure that politicians would have to obsess over the one thing that destroys democracy faster than anything else. As Willard Romney himself liked to misquote: politics ain't bean bags. Of course, you could always forgo the fundraising and finance your own campaign, which is really putting your money where your mouth is, but I digress.

Steve goes on to cover the rest of the obvious points nicely. No, Roger, The President actually did work in the private sector. And who are you to suggest that public sector workers don't work? Go tell the families of all the public sector workers who died doing their jobs how lazy their loved ones were, you fat puke. Actually, Steve was nicer than that, bless his heart.

But please, Roggie Baby, don't let the fact that I'm mean to you shut you up. You've got a whole media empire at your disposal, so please, keep talking, wingnut.