WaPo columnists give GOP advice

They must be giddy at the offices of the Washington Post columnists – if giddy means inebriated. Two of the furthest Left denizens of those offices on 15th Street, Harold Myerson and Kathleen Parker offer us advice today on  how to win the next election. First Parker hints that we should read her columns more;

Election Day has produced fresh fury from self-proclaimed “conservatives” promising never again to read me or fellow apostates who criticized the Republican ticket.

This is, of course, their right, but is this really the way to go about salvaging the Republican Party?

Yes, absolutely, let’s start censoring people who entertain ideas and opinions that make us unhappy. Now there’s a sure path to enlightenment!

Sorry, Kath, but the government hasn’t forced us to read your daily columns (yet), so not reading your empty-headed missives doesn’t constitute “censorship”. Personally, I can’t remember EVER reading any of your drivel past the first paragraph, so you’d better call the Obama transition team and tell them I’ve been censoring you my whole life.

Parker goes on to complain that she receives hate mail. I’m sure she does, but we all get hate mail, Kath, it’s part of the business of having opinions in public. Why I just got one the other day from someone who is going to report me to the FBI for having a (dot)us internet address. Live with it, Kath.

Meyerson, who begins his column by diliberately lying to his readers that there hasn’t been any evidence of WMD uncovered in Iraq or that there’s no link what so ever between the Hussein government and al Qaeda, labors under the misapprehension that Fox News is somehow leading the GOP (as if none of the buttons on our remotes work). Meyerson offers production notes to Roger Ailes;

Reach out to Latinos — the inescapably growing segment of the American electorate that voted overwhelmingly for Obama after four years of GOP immigrant-bashing? Not if Fox viewers have anything to say about it. Not after you’ve drummed into their heads that the Latino immigrant population is some looming terrorist threat.

Modify that opposition to stem-cell research? Tone down the ridicule of people in public life who have advanced degrees? Call off the Republican war on science that kicks in whenever science runs counter to right-wing fundamentalism in religion or economics? Not if the Hannity faithful can help it.

You’re not alone in reinforcing those beliefs that marginalize the Republican right, of course. You’ve got plenty of help from Rush and all the little Limbaughs who dominate talk radio. But together with your allies, you haul truckloads of troglodyte garbage to your flock.

In other words, Fox News reports news that the Washington Post won’t tell people because it upsets the narrative, so Fox News needs to be more like the Washington Post and haul truckloads of WaPo’s troglodyte garbage to WaPo’s flock. How dare I call your readers the same names you call me? Look in your comments section, Hal. Their draws at the Koolaid trough are long and deep.

A 52-48% victory isn’t the great victory you’ve supposed it to be, Kath and Hal. I predict that within the next four years you’ll be calling us names again and still giving your useless advice to people who are damn sight brighter than you.

Is it just me or does the Washington Post staff sound more like the staff of mad Magazine these days?

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