Harrogate has enjoyed cruising the Right Blogosphere this week, witnessing the spectacle of sought explanation as they ponder "what happened." We who believe in liberal causes can certainly relate, as before Tuesday we'd been getting skunked for six years running, and for 12 if you count Congress only.Maybe the most interesting explanation Harrogate has encountered appears in this article, by pundit Rusty Shackleford, whose thesis is that:
one phenomenon has been overlooked. One which I believe was a key if not the key to a Democratic victory. That is the phenomenon of faux news. And Jon Stewart is its banner bearer.Harrogate wonders what others think of this article, which makes a well-written and compelling case for Stewart's significance. The proposed analogue to Rush Limbaugh is particularly fascinating, if a bit hyperbolic.
Jon Stewart is an unlikely player in national politics. He's not a pundit, he's a comedian. As unlikely a candidate for Democratic kingmaker as he may be, he's a force to be reckoned with.
Speaking of Rush, Harrogate thought this little Shackleford tidbit was just priceless in terms of probing the Rethuglican mind, so magnificently does it ooze the hollow populism that Solon so rightly abhors:
Remember the "Rush room"? In the back of restaurants we gathered to
listen to talk radio in a safe atmosphere away from the politically correct ears
of our social betters. Rush emboldened us. He made us feel like we
weren't alone.
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