The Brave Charge of The Incontinent Brigade . . . . .

Oy Jeebus . . . .

A retired Army general and Fox News analyst told a Tea Party group that he would lead a military coup against the U.S. government, if only reluctantly.

Paul Vallely, a retired major general and senior military analyst for the conservative news channel, told the Surprise, Arizona, Tea Party Patriots during a Dec. 3 speech that other retired military personnel and veterans groups had contacted him about the possibility.

“I had a call this afternoon from Idaho, the gentleman said, ‘If I give you 250,000 Marines to go to Washington, will you lead them?’” Vallely said as the group laughed and gasped. “I said, ‘Yes, I will, I’ll surround the White House and I’ll surround the Capitol building, but it’s going to take physical presence to do things.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/27/fox-news-analyst-tells-tea-party-group-he-can-lead-a-military-coup-against-obama/




The Gadfly was going to post a very indignant, quite likely profanity-laced observation about this idiocy, but thankfully one of the user comments caught his eye and it effectively disarmed The Gadfly's distemper with some good old fashioned, snarky humor:

sneakerup • 2 hours ago −
Yeah OK, let's see your army of senile old cranks in their hoverrounds, gramps. Be sure to bring the applesauce for their meds. The nice nurse will tuck you in now.

And lest you feel that comment to be a cheap shot, fret not, for the audience demographics eggheads pretty much concur:

A key data point from Frank Rich's profile of Fox News:

Fox News is losing younger viewers at an even faster rate than its competitors. With a median viewer age now at 68 according to Nielsen data through mid-January (compared with 60 for MSNBC and CNN, and 62 to 64 for the broadcast networks), Fox is in essence a retirement community ... If it is actuarially possible, its median viewer age will keep creeping upward. (It rose by two years over the course of 2013.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/half-of-fox-news-viewers-are-68-and-older/283385/


So essentially - Fox is the cable "news" network for the old, rural, cranky white guys screaming "get off my lawn you meddling kids!"

While it may be true that a xenophobic, conservative, overtly biased political propaganda outfit masquerading as a "news" organization might make for a winning formula in the ratings wars, it is decidedly a losing formula in the trust and integrity arena. Outside of the worldly knowledge bubble of Fox's average white, bigoted, homophobic, 68 year old neanderthal viewer, the network is actually a laughing stock to the rest of the world, at home and abroad.

Anyhow, if the old Army General loon can actually gather a quarter million retired U.S. Marines (providing they are ambulatory enough to make the trek) and surround Obama's White House, if nothing else it will make for a damn entertaining Geritol commercial.



----TFG