Mickey Z

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

"Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power"

I just got through perusing a review copy of Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power: The Rise and Risks of the New Conservative Hate Culture, by Gerry Spence...a book in which the “Hate Team” of Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, Pat Robertson, et. al. is dissected and skewered.

Typically, I shy away from demonizing the demons out of concern that my efforts might be misconstrued as support for Democrat and/or liberal types. However, Spence is not just playing partisan politics here. He shines a light brightly on the colossal corporate component behind our mass misery and myopia. Here’s how the author sums up:

"I’ve come to believe that the members of Team Hate are what and who they are because of what and who we are. The mirror is always at work. None of our bloodthirsty women and none of our pious pontificators could survive one segment on the tube but for the fact that they are speaking to us, the real us, that is, that part of us that resonates to the rantings of hate ... As we, they are angry because they, too, must have been forgotten, misled, lied to; because they are disappointed and have felt pain; and because their expectations have not been met. They are as trapped as we ... But they have learned to profit from it. We and they were born in the same culture, one that was not of their choosing, nor ours. They, as we, are like children who have grown up in a slaughterhouse and have forgotten the soft touch of a lamb. Might there one day be remembrance."

I very much suggest you check out Bloodthirsty Bitches and Pious Pimps of Power if you can.

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