Outside the Spectrum

   There are many conservative or libertarian types out there who don’t usually merit that much attention from me due to my very limited time. The Stossels of the world, if you will. But today I make an exception.

   I was driving home from work and I tuned into WIND, the local station out here that carries the foul message of Michael Medved. To my horror, I discovered him rhetorically doing what some recently have done literally.

   Medved converted to conservativism in time to help Ronald Reagan get elected in 1980. Apparently his stigmatization of “celebrity bastard parents” didn’t stop him from backing one when it suited his purposes. Since then he has been a loud conservative voice in “the greatest nation on God’s green earth,” reaching out to 140 markets with his syndicated radio show.

   Medved devoted a bit of time today to echo the conservative talking point that the homeless deserve what they get. Homelessness isn’t stigmatized enough in our society, he says. There are enough jobs out there to support these people, he maintains. They’re lazy. Screw ‘em.

   This is conservatism, ladies and gentlemen. Screw the poor. Kick the people who are homeless when they’re down. Evil does not get any more unambiguous than this.

   Forget that nearly fifty percent of all homeless women and children are fleeing domestic violence. Forget that massive, uncounted numbers of children are homeless. Forget about the homeless who were unable to pay rent because they didn’t make enough money. Forget about the fact that many homeless are evicted from their homes because of poverty. Check out this link if you want honest statistics, not conservative vitriol and anecdotes.

   I don’t know what Bible “observant” Jews like Medved read, but it’s not any Torah I’ve ever heard of. I know this much: if there is a benevolent God, no Medved will ever enter Heaven. His rhetorical baseballbatting of people who are homeless is among the most degenerate diatribes I have ever been exposed to. Even Rush Limbaugh rarely sinks this low.

   This is the thug so shitfaced on conservative ideological moonshine that he denied Bush wanted to privatize social programs and then suffered a psychotic break when he was refuted with a simple quote, claimed that the “American Left” took “comfort and joy” in the mess that Iraq has become, and suggested “a major, multicharacter generational saga about the utterly amazing Bush family,” barely pausing to wipe the drool from his chin.

  Medved is a morally inbred thug, a proud warrior of a tribal political cult who takes pride in beating the teeth out of homeless people and victimizing the helpless. Since the days of Goldwater and Nixon his clan has bred and proliferated in the dark and noisome corners of this country, feeding on ignorance and bigotry like kudzu grown in fresh shit. His filthy and illiterate cousins have grown numerous and powerful enough to dare to storm the walls of civilization like universities and media outlets in order to rape and pillage the inhabitants and strip the gold from the temples, carrying off the remainder to waste on whores and alcoholic binges.

   To add insult to injury, Medved’s scurvy barbarians claim to have supplanted the old order with a new one, some kind of retarded New Rome for the drooling, twitching masses who have inherited their father’s bigotry like a congenital birth defect. You may pillage Rome, Medved, but your plunderers have as much claim to the Civilization as maggots do to the soul of the corpse they feed upon. Stealing the statue doesn’t make you the high priest, and raping the woman doesn’t make you her husband, you loathsome invertebrate.