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The voices of blindness and rage cannot shake me anymore.
I felt that this morning when I watched Bill O’Reilly’s response to Moyers on Crook and Liars.
He insisted Moyers took him “out of context” but when he ran the video to put it “into context” it was clear that Moyers did no such thing, and the more O’Reilly protested, the angrier he got, the more of an ass he made of himself. He reinforced what Moyers said instead of contradicting it. But O’Reilly just couldn’t let it go. He’s losing it.
The same is true of Limbaugh. He just can’t stand it that people are keeping track of the things he says. And the more he attempts to defend himself and strike back, the deeper in a hole he goes.
Their world is closing in on them and they’re frightened. And what frightens them the most is that the public has regained a healthy skepticism of government and the media that is crucial for any healthy democracy, but the death knell of their fantasy world.
A lot of the public lost that skepticism for a while, but the massive incompetence, corruption and deceit of the Bush administration has jolted many of them back into reality. There is hope.
