Ship of Fools
Media treatment of the whole pirate+hostage situation over the last week is funny to me because right-wing blowhards have been trying to politicize it from the start. It’s not a political situation. It’s a tactical military and law enforcement situation.
But, misconceptions like that never stop the right-wing punditocracy from putting their feet (peglegs?) in their mouths…
The video above summarizes the doom and gloom that right-wing talking heads were predicting up to the point that Navy SEAL snipers took out three pirates, freeing their hostage — actions approved by the President himself.
I’m not surprised that the pundits are way off course. Look who’s steering this conservative ship of fools:
“This is the administration which keeps trying to find some kind of magical solution that doesn’t involve effort, that doesn’t involve risk, that doesn’t involve making hard decisions.”
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Captain Newt
“We’ve become so politically correct that no one would even dare think about sending the marines to fight pirates.”
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First Mate Beck
(What can I say — I finally found an excuse to photoshop a pirate eyepatch onto Newt Gingrich, fulfilling one of my childhood dreams. No way was I gonna pass that up!)
The right is desperate for any issue — no matter how inherently apolitical — that they can latch on to and be correct about. That’s why they talked up this pirate hostage episode so much this week. Unfortunately for them, they got it completely, hilariously wrong.
Fortunately for America, we got to see how a strong President handles a delicate situation, letting our military and law enforcement professionals do their jobs.
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