Eric Holder is exactly correct

22 February 2009

I’m listening to FOX News and all the white folks on the panel are up
in arms about Eric Holder’s call out of America being a nation of
cowards when it comes to racism. I don’t know how Juan Williams
stomachs the condescension of Brit Hume, in particular, who all but
literally praised Williams for being a credit to his race. It was
putrid.

I just saw The Reader and it haunts me in the same way a small
vignette in Herman Wouk’s War and Remembrance, where in the wife and
children of a Wehrmacht officer was mistakenly swept up in the Final
Solution and liquidated. As an Army brat, it hit a little too close
to home. And that’s the thrust of The Reader, which is a study in
moral cowardice exactly in the way the knee jerk racism of white
Americans is largely a study in self-delusion and denial. There was a
documentary about Tulia, Texas, and the 13 blacks who were unjustly
imprisoned by a renegade undercover drug agent, who was ultimately
convicted of perjury. And all the good old boy white folks complained
that the 13 blacks were released on technicalities and the agent
convicted out of revenge. This is moral climate which allowed the
Final Solution to emerge in what had been one of the most progressive
cultures in Europe. And there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference
between Brit Hume’s whining about Holder and comparing Holder’s
comments to Phil Gramm’s comments about America being a nation of
whiners and Michael comforting himself with the altruism of recording
his reading for a woman he betrayed by his failure to come to her
defense when it mattered.

Eric Holder is exactly correct and FOX News Sunday is the poster
child for his remarks.

And then there is Rick Santelli attacking the poor á la Rush Limbaugh
as the source of the current financial crises. First of all, the
origins of the current financial crises is the half-assed Supply Side
economics of Phil Gramm and the laissez-faire, gold-based, Free Market
principles of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s conservatism and is a top-down
train wreck. And it is people who think like Rick Santelli who have
profited the most from this exercise in class warfare and generated
the collapse in the first place. The fact that anyone beyond the
commodity traders to whom he is appealing take him seriously is a
measure of the truth in the observation that no one ever went broke
underestimating the intelligence of the American consumer. Like John
McCain with Phil Gramm, Rick Santelli is an example of someone who has
been trained to pull himself around by his own dick and congratulating
himself on his own righteousness. I mean, his income, being over
$50,000, has been subsidized by the 90% of the tax payers earning
$50,000 a year or less since the Tax Reform of 1986. The ants have
been taking care of the grass hoppers on the Mercantile Exchange for a
long time.

And, just for the record, have you noticed how Rush Limbaugh, as he
continues to swell without his Oxycotin, is looking more and more like
Jabba the Hut. He has always been a fat man and it has become clear
that it reflects the underlying moral rot of his appetites and
ambitions. Like with Clinton, his role is to promote the failure of
the President and he is being paid $40 million by people who have the
same agenda. In the final analysis, pigs get fat and hogs get
slaughtered.

In this financial crises, Wall Street and the executive class of the
Fortune 500 are like a fat drunk who has stumbled at a wedding
reception and, in trying to catch his fall, grabbed a table cloth and
has nearly pulled the wedding cake down upon himself as he fell.
Paulson managed to grab the other side of the table cloth and stalled
the initial disaster, but it will require the fat man to actually
letting go of his own dignity to prevent the ultimate disaster and
people like Santelli suggest that this may not be possible given the
collective egoism of the class with a vested interest in the
continuing dominion of the voodoo economics embedded in the laissez-
faire, gold-based, Free Market principles of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s
conservatism.

And that’s the truth.


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