Friday, February 25, 2005

 

More Vigorish For Viguerie?

This makes no sense: Matt Stoler over at ThereIsNoCrisis.com is tracking down the makeup and origins of the latest BushCo incarnation of the Sniffed Goat Bedouins For Truth, the anti-AARP kamikaze pilots at USA-Next, and points out that they're nothing more than an outgrowth of Richard Viguerie's deceptive direct-(junk)mail outfit from the 1980s and 90s.

However, over at salon.com, Richard Viguerie himself is quoted, none too charitably, on Bush's privatization plans:

"It's going to be hard for our people to get excited" over issues like Social Security, he says. "How do you get conservatives excited if you ignore our issues?"

What gives? Does Mr. Viguerie's left hand not know what his right hand is doing? (He's still listed as "affiliated" with "United Seniors," one of USA-Next's many apparent hydra-heads.) Did somebody at salon.com not know about the evident disparity, so as to ask him the followup question? (Let's try it in leftwing Gannonspeak for a change: "Mr. Viguerie, why hasn't your head exploded yet, you hypocritical, twofaced lying bastard?")

posted by Michael 12:45 PM