I just made the egregious mistake of watching a few minutes of the GOP's best friend, Cenk Uygur, on MSNBC. What a dreadful fool.
He was lambasting President Obama -- again -- this time for not involving himself and fighting enough in the Wisconsin budget-union-political battle. His guest, Ed Rendell, calmly explained to the adolescent host that the president probably wouldn't want to entangle himself in 40+ state-budget conflagrations, and besides, the Wisconsin battle is about the workers, not the president.
Uygur didn't want to hear that, naturally. Because to Uygur, the Wisconsin battle isn't really about the workers, or even the president. It is, rather, about Mr. Uygur: how loud Cenk Uygur can be, how outraged Cenk Uygur can be, how bloody self-righteous Cenk Uygur can be.
The workers are a showpiece, a stage prop, a mere trifling for Uygur's extended melodrama. And the president? In Obama, Uygur is disappointed not because he's presidentially restraining himself in this fight, but because Obama isn't delivering a screaming, podium-pounding, four-year food fight that Uygur could relish.
What a dreadful fool ... excepting that Mr. Uygur was sly enough to somehow con MSNBC out of an hour of network time and, I assume, some pretty good pay.