The Cynics' Salon has been out-of-commission for a few days, due to a ranch dip of questionable origin and composition brought in last Thursday by a coworker. While our entire staff was busy becoming very acquainted with our past meals and wondering if our healthcare plans covered death-by-ranch-dip, I had some time to reflect on current events.
Like many people, I, Ryan Lockhart, have an addiction to information. Cable news, internet, blogs, journals, I must have information at my fingertips at a moment's notice. Unlike many people, I recognize this as an addiction, though I make no efforts to seek rehabilitation. I make this statement to say that I fear that I am nearing information overload: a point at which I will be completely paralyzed by the futility of trying to understand what is going on. Perhaps a vacation is in order...one that doesn't involve kowtowing to the porcelain god....
In other news, following on the heels of Ann Coulter's hissy over John McCain not being conservative enough to play in the reindeer games, fellow right-wing pundit Bill Cunningham is now angry with John McCain. In order to introduce John McCain at a rally in Cincinnatti, Ohio on Tuesday, Cunningham, the host of "The Big Show," a nationally syndicated conservative talk radio show, stoked the crowd's enthusiasm by slamming Barack Obama as a "hack Chicago politician," and repeatedly invoking Obama's middle name, Hussein, as a smear. When McCain was informed of this afterwards, he apologized for the remarks, affirmed his respect and admiration of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and stated unequivocally that Cunningham's comments were inappropriate and did not represent the views of his campaign.
And what was Bill Cunningham's brilliant counter-riposte to McCain's chiding? To cry foul. Cunningham claims that his freedom of speech isn't being respected and says that he's so disgusted with John McCain that he's going to support Ralph Nader (or, as some reports seem to indicate, Hillary Clinton).
This makes two high-profile conservatives who, not satisfied with John McCain, have adopted the mindset of, "Screw you guys, I'm voting for Hillary!" One has to wonder how many more Republicans will make this astounding leap of logic: "I don't like my party's candidate, so I'll vote for someone antithetical to my state political beliefs." It's almost akin to last election's phenomenon of liberals threatening to leave the country if George W. Bush was re-elected.
For my part, though I am an admitted Obama-supporter, I hope Coulter and Cunningham and whoever else do express their dissent by voting for Clinton, and if they do just that, I hope that Clinton wins. It will be fun to watch Ann Counter try to explain that one on Fox News after the election.
Cheers,
Lockhart
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