That was Rachel Maddow yesterday during the first of two segments she did on "Tea-bagging." And it's true. The stuff she was talking about is virtually parody-proof. The folks writing the scripts for the GOP base these days are better than the folks at SNL. By a mile.
Yesterday, David wrote a very strong diary, "Are We Making Irrelevant Conservatives More Relevant?" in which he expanded on a discussion he had had with Rachel on the radio show he is guest-hosting. And he made a good argument questioning the wisdom of continuing to focus so much on political figures who wield no real political power. It's an important argument, and we definitely need to question whether we're not just doing the same old thing we've been doing, simply because it's familiar and it feels good. But I think there's something more that needs to be considered as well.
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