Over at Power Line, flecks of white spittle fly off my monitor as I endeavor to take the temperature of the local branch of the lunatic fringe. Hinderaker, in a March 31 post, asks in his title "Is Obamacare unconstitutional?" before following it up with one called "The Illegitimacy of Obamacare." Yesterday his deconstruction of a CBS interview with President Obama included the following insights:
Note how Obama immediately starts talking about the "vitriol" of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. This is a bad joke: has Obama never listened to Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow et al.? I've never watched or listened to Beck, but Limbaugh is a more moderate and sophisticated analyst of the political scene than, say, Paul Krugman or E.J. Dionne.
Here is sidekick Johnson striving to be competetive. The context is the claim that black Democrats are lying about being harrassed by race-baiting tea-party types:
Among other things, one of the involved congressmen is Rep. James Clyburn, a member of the House Democratic leadership and a past master in the cynical deployment of the race card. I conclude as have many others that these allegations were orchestrated by the Democrat/media axis to stigmatize the opposition to Obama's program of national socialism as racist and to suppress dissent.
Ah, "the Democrat/media axis" and "Obama's program of national socialism" in a single sentence! Game on, Hinderaker! Meanwhile, Mirengoff, the third philosopher, concludes, in a post entitled "March job numbers show improvement, but nothing dramatic":
Overall, the March report confirms that the job picture is improving, but suggests that the improvement is occurring slowly.
Possibly he swallowed the valiums prescribed to his co-authors. Or perhaps he is just approaching profundity from a different direction--"what every jackass knows" instead of "stuff crazy people say."
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