Fox News: Give Rove a Medal

You just knew that the difficult spot Karl Rove finds himself in would put a fair bit of stress on the already highly elastic boundaries of right-wing justificatory postmodernism. Sane people don’t try to predict the precise contours of such an exercise (if you twist your brain into such a position, you run the risk it’ll never return to normal), we just wait with a sense of dread and fascination to see what they come up with. Lightweights like Jonah Goldberg and David Brooks are willing to please, but their minds still resemble their original human form to be up to the task before us. Bring in the big guns: John Gibson.

If I were a touch more paranoid and/or narcissistic, I’d think John Gibson of Fox News was an invention of my enemies–an unholy and unnatural creation designed and programmed to say precisely those things most likely to make my head explode. After the Olympics-bombing connection drivel, I thought he’d have to rest up a bit before he had the energy to try anything as advanced as this. To think I was naive enough to think the Brit “Time to Buy” Hume was the closest thing to the personification of the black, black soul of Fox News. Hume’s staggeringly cold-blooded greed is so vastly preferable to what Gibson has to offer. I don’t know how I ever thought they were in the same league.

Speaking of wingnuttery making people’s heads explode, note that the proprietor of Axis of Evel Kneivel has returned from his vacation. Humor, righteous indignation, frustration–it’s in there!