Charlie Reina at HuffPost captures the PANTS-WETTING FEAR that underlies all right-wing ideology and power-politics

TERRIFIC article!
Charlie Reina captures the Alpha & Omega of Right-Wing politics and identity: "PANTS WETTING FEAR."

FEAR is the UNIFYING ELEMENT of Right-Wing politics and political groups, from the days of the American frontier during the savage Indian wars, to the post-Civil War creation of the KKK, and the modern tendency of Americans right-wing groups to foment DEATH SQUAD DIPLOMACY in South America, Central America, Haiti, and now Africa and the Middle East.



Dennis Miller IS the Joke
Charlie Reina
01.01.2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charlie-reina/dennis-miller-is-the-joke_b_37544.html

For years now, the Rush Limbaugh set has been telling this joke: "What do you call a liberal who's been mugged? A conservative."

It's a pretty good joke, too, because it says so much about the people who delight in telling it. I don't mean conservatives or Republicans, necessarily, because the punch-line has less to do with politics than with human nature.


No, these joke tellers are merely hypocrites who, whether or not they ever had a selfless thought, can't quite cope with the shame of their own fear, cowardice and selfishness, so they project it onto others. They tell us: We're all out for Number One; only, liberals can't admit it. But what they really mean is: I'd sell out my own brother for a tax rebate; wouldn't you?
These days, the comedian Dennis Miller is a prime mouthpiece for this shabby, "but-at-least-we're-honest-about-it" world view. As a social commentator, the pseudo-intellectual Miller is far more glib and smug than he ever was thoughtful.

Back in the 1980's, he turned what had begun as a sweetly goofy Saturday Night Live "news" segment into an exercise in mean-spiritedness. Then, on nine-eleven, Miller looked down at the wet spot on his pants and discovered not shame but salvation.He would cash in on the country's post-attack hysteria and proclaim himself a reformed liberal. Terrorism, you see, feeds on the muddle-headedness that is all things liberal.