How South Carolina Continues to Try To Triumph Over the Union (Aided and Abetted By the New Carpetbaggers and Scallywags)

Remember when all truly serious people were really confused about Newt Gingrich's uncalled-for (based on his being thrown out of Congress and forced to pay a $300,000 fine for fraud), recurring appearances on Sunday morning talking head shows (not to mention mainstream media "news" shows), and how "seriously" his nonsense opinions were then discussed by the brainless nonentities running those shows (David Gregory, I'm looking at you and your bestest buddies including David Brooks and Tom Friedman, whom you never actually ask anything but softball open-ended questions about their "opinions")?

I do.

And if you don't know by now that the whole time (ramped up to high speed in the years after the election of Obama) he was being set up by them for this "spectacular" (and embarrassing to anyone with a memory or conscience) and amazing unpredicted "win" backed by the powerful South Carolina fundamentalists (racists and haters of all legislation benefitting those on the bottom of the money pyramid (who actually include most of themselves, but having swallowed the Rethug line decades ago about their being the "real American aristocrats" don't know it)), Mormon haters (or am I repeating myself?), and the most uneducated and bigoted group of voters available en masse in the U.S. today, reading further here probably won't enlighten you any.

Juan Cole speaks eloquently about this phenomena (for me and millions of others, I'll bet), and holds the so-called journalists, who've either forgotten their training or never had any, really responsible for this mess (where the rallying cry of bigots and fools who despise Obama rule the day).

And speaking of David F. Brooks/Tom Friedbrain type journalists' continuing utility to those in power, Charles Pierce tells us all we need to know.

As if we needed any further lessons about this group of bounders.

Born in South Carolina (and extremely embarrassed about it (again)),

S