And the Gregory Brothers.

…via Jazz from Hell.

It’s probably not actually true, given all the warmongers who are terrified of serving in the military, but having this ‘public personality’ collapse on video is just too good a thing not to reward it with some damning praise.

John Ziegler is a rotten right-wing counter-truth tantrumist whose particular milieu is resuscitating Sarah Palin’s laughable reputation.

In his ‘documentary’ conservative-big-bucks propaganda piece, he goes on and on about how the liberals–CBS, ABC, those assholes–assassinated poor little Sarah. He even interviewed the Sesame Street Governor herself. She rewarded her supporters, once again, by appearing to be an idiot on camera.

(Her responses to the Katie Couric interview, a very sore point for Ziegler, are from 2:26 to 5:50 in the clip.)

This is the sort of ‘journalism’ Ziegler does: “It seems to me as if Tina Fey and Katie Couric have been treated as..almost heroes or heroines among the media elite for what they, the perception of what they did to you. Do you feel the same way?”

Now that she’s destroyed your VP ambitions, how do you feel about Couric? That hack Tina Fey is not fair and balanced at all, screw her. That attempt would have been funny enough, but Vice-President-Me Elma trumps it with yet more of her brain-freezing word association:

“Oh, job security is important, uh, in my agenda here in the state, I’m just helpin’ those outside of my state also keep their jobs secure, but yeah I did see the Tina Fey, it was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have, have risen, and I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, um, I don’t know, I think some perhaps exploiting that was, that was done, uh, via me, my family, my administration. That–that’s, that’s a little bit perplexing it also says a great deal though about our society.”

Just reading that stuff for typos erases part of my mind. The clip, with her eyes wide, the urethane of furious back-brain searching on her face–it’s like a grey-matter freon bomb. How did Couric survive that interview?

“Good evening, Governor”
“Good evening, Katie, and might I add: zoops phuddle-pixie triceratops meaty farm glow. That–that says, er, a great deal though about our society.” *zombify*

Perhaps it was a latent paralytic effect of Palin’s that shut down the propagandist Ziegler’s motor neurons below his belt. In the clip, his legs become completely disabled, and thus he wobbles and topples all over the place, poor fella.

Which makes it strange to recall that, not too long ago, he had enough spine to scream and yell at the far more courageous and honest Max Blumenthal while they were surrounded by hundreds of fawning ultra-conservatives. And then brag about it to the same folks immediately afterward:

“..but based upon the audience reaction, this was a first round TKO, uh, that was, uh, never a contest… There was no physical contact, although, he, uh, thought I was getting in his personal space at one point. Which I said well if you’d like to make me back off, feel free to try… Well, he’s a gutless, ball-less coward. So, I mean, it really, it’s like taking on, you know, Bambi or something.”

Below, still hating Katie Couric, he’s not so eventually triumphant: but most of that is simply due to his refusing to acknowledge what’s ‘Private Property’, which the (very conservative) University of Southern California is. The security guards come out, the microphone goes away, the cuffs come out and Palin Paralytic Syndrome kicks in:

[Warning: if you're anything like me, buckle in because you're otherwise about to laugh yourself out of your chair.]

Cue conservative outrage.