I am watching Hugh Hewitt on Cspan’s In-Depth, I am trying to understand what values Hewitt brings to the party. Hewitt is one of the gang of maybe ten key spokesmen for conservatism and the republican party. It is impossible in his case and others to separate them from simple party power politics. He pretends to be a conservative Christian, but the one question concerning Christianity and healthcare received the usual reactionary reply that bad things will happen when government tries to help people. That refrain is repeated too often by conservatives to even be taken seriously.
Hewitt is an ideologue, and that brings me to the Troll label. A troll disrupts intelligent dialogue. Hewitt is a troll plain and simple, everyone is wrong who has a position different than him. And they are completely wrong as if some all-knowing god is in his head steering him. He repeats the same tired stereotypes, and on any issue he mentions, the opposite could just as easily be said as his every word comes from no valid or relevant source. He demonstrates his troll status when he denied that a majority of doctors supported the public option. (See link below) He lies with the straightest face and a weird sort of twisted smile that only the holier than thou possess.
He talks over the caller when they disagree and then asked for specific information when he himself has given none. His reply to a woman who called Rush a racist was a disgrace. He asked that she provide quotes (see link below) and then went on a troll rant. He provides no sources, and hides behind being a lawyer as if that alone supports his debate. It is an odd position, but consistent with his holier than thou attitude.
So why mention him at all. I do so because he engages in the worst sort of repetitive nonsense and it is this constant BS that needs to be countered by thinking people. Life is full of things to do, people are busy, but those like Hewitt stand in the way of simple progress and hope. Republican policy since Reagan has been a complete failure and the statistics prove it. Conservatives politics has only accomplished: debt, war, and increased poverty, but Hewitt like other trolls lends nothing to the debate except a demonization of the other.
Oh, and Hugh we bought an American car as some of us support American workers. You would too if you weren’t simply a troll.
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8141
http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
PS The show can be viewed on the cspan’s web, search indepth. And for an excellent review of reationary politics see, “The Rhetoric of Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy” by Albert O. Hirschman.
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