“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?'
'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.'
'The dog did nothing in the night-time.’
''That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Silver Blaze
The odious TransPacific Partnership treaty is well on the way to ringing another American death knell.
Washington Democraps and Republicants alike have conspired with multinational Big Money in an unconscionable (and almost successful) effort to cloak the entire process in secrecy before springing it on America as a fait accompli.
The TPP and the fast-track authorization that will foist it on us is ready-made for a furious Faux News attack. I have been expecting a Faux News hysterical firestorm any day. Yet the blabbering bobbleheads and FarRightWingNuts that shout at us from boob boxes everywhere are like the dog in the night . . . not a bark, not a growl, not even a whimper.
I expect that from the lapdogs in at the dinosaur networks . . . but Faux News?? It boggles my mind.
What’s happened? Is Faux News just missing the boat??
Imagine the frightening taglines scrolling across the bottom of the Faux News scare-o-vision:
• NEXT UP: 0bama’s Secret Plan to Sell America to Chinese
Or
• Multinationals Join 0bama to Destroy American Sovereignty
OR
• Democrats Ram Secret Plan Through Congress
Wouldn’t that rile up “the base”!!
Nothing like an 0bama conspiracy to skyrocket the ratings. Am I right or am I right . . . wing?
Instead of seeing five stories per show about the perfidious Baltimoreans who dare protest getting randomly shot by police, Faux News could send the TeaPotty off on a witchhunt . . . . . one with a real target instead of a made-up controversy about birth certificates.
And yet, nothing. Nada. Zilch.
If even a single zealous TeaPotty “thinker” saw the Alan Grayson video about Trade Treachery or the Robert Reich chalktalk or the Bernie Sanders talking points . . . just imagine!!
The internet would soon be roaring with TeaPotty diatribes that would blow birth certificates and Benghazi into the distant past.
And yet, nothing. Nada. Zilch.
I have two theories to explain the curious silence of the TeaPotty on TPP:
1. Alan Grayson, Robert Reich and Bernie Sanders are so repugnant to TeaPotty heads that even their full-on endorsement of AK-47 Open Carry would cause the TeaPotty to abandon the NRA and join PETA.
2. Faux News is the handmaiden of the 0.01%. The last thing Rupert the Robber Baron wants is for the TeaPotty to turn its ire on a real issue. . . like Fake Trade. Rupert’s cronies in the 0.01% Club would crucify him if he let Hannity or O’Neill run off at the mouth about TPP. So nothing from Faux News or its bobbleheads.
So Faux News is not going to let the dogs out. That’s why we are being treated to the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.