{"id":9034,"date":"2013-02-07T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T22:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9034"},"modified":"2013-02-07T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T22:50:35","slug":"gop-sleaze-meister-roger-stone-rears-his-repulsive-head-in-defense-of-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9034","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sleaze Meister Roger Stone Rears His Repulsive Head In Defense Of The Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the GOP in a historic internal battle between the forces of the hard-right establishment (Karl Rove & Co.) and the confederacy of right-wing dunces (the Tea Party), an old warrior has made an appearance on the battlefield.<\/p>\n

\"RogerRoger Stone is a veteran Republican operative who cut his teeth in the nastiest campaigns of Richard Nixon. More recently he founded a group to oppose Hillary Clinton’s primary campaign in 2008, that he called “Citizens United Not Timid,”<\/em> or C.U.N.T. So it is not particularly surprising that Stone would resurface in order to take the side of the Tea Party in their war against Rove. Nor is it surprising that Stone would find the most disgusting way to articulate his support for the inexorable Teabaggers. He told TPM Livewire that…<\/p>\n

“These are the storm troops of the Republican Party. Don’t offend them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hmm. I wonder how the Tea Party would respond to being compared to Germany’s special forces who advanced the art of brutality. With friends like Stone who needs enemas?<\/p>\n

\"KeithThe Tea Party is not the only new friend that Stone has made. Keith Ablow<\/a>, the Fox News “Psycho Analyst,”<\/em> was recently mulling a bid for the senate seat vacated by John Kerry. A couple of days ago he decided against entering the race and made this statement:<\/p>\n

Ablow:<\/strong> As I made clear, with the sprint to the Special Election in June, a primary fight was not in my blood. I have conferred with my chief advisor Roger Stone<\/strong>, who agreed with my assessment of a primary as an unwise choice for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Ablow has revealed that he has chosen for himself a chief advisor who calls Clinton a “cunt”<\/em> and the Tea Party “Storm Troopers.”<\/em> That’s a curious selection considering that Ablow regards himself as an exemplar of morality. Perhaps it was Stone who advised Ablow to praise Newt Gingrich for his serial infidelity, or to engage in diagnoses of public figures whom he had not examined, in violation of the ethics codes of the American Psychiatric Association.<\/p>\n

Ablow has been a relentlessly repugnant presence on Fox News with his offensive misrepresentations of other people’s motivations. He further disgraced himself by coauthoring a book with Glenn Beck. But now that we know who has been behind the scenes giving him advice, it all makes much more sense. Ablow and Stone were made for each other, and if they weren’t both homophobic bigots we might see them one day tie the knot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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