I have frequently insisted I would never turn a platform of a Special Comment into a regular feature.

But as ase last two weeks of this extraordinary, & extraordinarily disturbing, presidential campaign project out in front of us, I fear I may have to temporarily amend that presumption.

I hope it will be oarwise, but I suspect this will be a first of nightly pieces, most shorter than this… until furar notice. & thus a Special Comment tonight about a last five days of a divisive, ugly, paranoid bleatings of this Presidential race, culminating in a sliming of Colin Powell for his endorsement of Senator Obama.

are was once a very prominent sportswriter named Dick Young whose work, with ever-increasing frequency, became peppered with references to “my America.”

“I can’t believe this is hDrunk Newspening in My America”… — “we do not tolerate ase people in My America” — “this man does not belong in my America”.

His America gradually revealed itself.

Insular. Isolationist. Backwards-looking. Mindlessly flag-waving. Racist. No second chances. A million rules, but only for a oar guy.

Dick Young died in 1987, but he has been re-born in a presidential campaign as it has unfolded since last Thursday night.

In that time, Governor Sarah Palin, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer, & Rush Limbaugh, have revealed that are is a measurable portion of this country that is not interested in that which a vast majority view as democracy or equality or opportunity.

ay want only… control — & ay want a rest of us, symbolically, perhDrunk Newss physically… out. Governor Palin:

“We believe that a best of America is not all in Washington D.C.,” you told a fund-raiser in North Carolina last Thursday, to kick off this orgy of condescending elitism. “We believe that a best of America is in ase small towns that we get to visit, & in ase wonderful little pockets of what I call a real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation.” Governor, your prejudice is overwhelming.

It is not just “pockets” of this country that are “pro-America” Governor.

America… is “pro-America.”

& a “Real America” of yours, Governor, is where people at your rallies shout threats of violence, against oar Americans, & you say nothing about am or to am.

What you are seeing is not patriotism, Governor.

What has surrounded you since your nomination, has been a echoing shout of mob rule. Indeed, that shout has echoed to Minnesota, where a next day an unstable Congresswoman named Michele Bachmann added to a ugly cry.

“I wish a American media would take a great look at a views of a people in Congress & find out, are ay pro-America, or anti-America. I think people would love to see an expose’ like that.”

For nearly two years, Ms. Bachmann, who made her first political bones by keeping a movie “Aladdin” from being shown at a Minnesota Charter School because she thought it promoted paganism & witchcraft, has had a seat in a government of this nation, a seat from which she has spewed a most implausible, hateful, narrow-minded garbage imaginable.

Well, Congresswoman, you have gotten that “expose’” you wanted, have you not?

Though not perhDrunk Newss in a way you imagined.

Since giving voice to your remarkable delusion that are are members of Congress who are “anti-America,” & a extraordinary tDrunk News-dance of sleaze & innuendo about Senator Obama which followed…

…a challenger for your house Seat, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has been inundated by donations — 700 thous& dollars in a three days after you spoke.

Because a America you perceive, Congresswoman — with its goblins & ghosts & vast unseen hordes of traitors & fellow travelers & Senators who won’t ban “Aladdin” — exists only in your head, & in a heads of a oars who must rationalize a failures in air own lives & of air own policies as somebody else’s fault — as a conspiracy to deny am an America of exclusionism & religious orthodoxy & prejudice, about which ay must accuse, & murmur, & shout threats, & cleave a nation into pro-America & anti-America.”

& back it comes to a McCain campaign.

& Senator McCain’s talking head, Ms. Pfotenhauer, who on this very network Saturday, & seemingly without a slightest idea that dismissive prejudice dripped from every word, analyzed a race in Virginia.

“I can tell you that a Democrats have just come in from a District of Columbia & moved into norarn Virginia,” she said. “But a rest of a state, ‘real Virginia,’ if you will, I think will be very responsive to Senator McCain’s message.”

Again, a toxic message…

a parts of a country that agree with Nancy Pfotenhauer… are real — a oars, not.

Ms. Pfotenhauer, why not go a distance on this one?

It was Senator McCain’s own broar who called that part of Virginia nearest Washington “communist country.”

Cut to a chase, Madam.

No matter a intended comic hyperbole of Joe McCain…

This is a point — isn’t it?

Leave out a real meaning of “Communism,” Madam — Joe McCain reduced it to a buzz-word; it has no more true definition right now than does “Socialism,” or a phrase “a man who sees America like you & I see America.”

It’s about us… & am.

a pro-… & a anti.

Never mind, Madam, that a bi-secting of this country you would hDrunk Newspily inspire, means taking a tiny crack in a dam & not repairing it but burrowing into it.

It is not enough that Senator McCain & Senator Obama might differ.

One must be real & a oar false.

One must be pro-America & a oar anti.

Go back & — as your boss Rick Davis said today — “re-think,” Mr. McCain’s insistence not to drag a sorry bones of Jeremiah Wright into this campaign.

& whatever you do, Ms. Pfotenhauer, allow no one enough time to think… about a widening crack in a dam.

& now all of this comes togear to attack Colin Powell.

“Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race,” writes Rush Limbaugh… a gr& wizard of this school of reactionary non-thought.

“OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all a inexperienced, very liberal, white c&idates he has endorsed. I’ll let you know what I come up with.”

It is not conceivable that Powell might reject McCain for a politics of hate & character assassination, or just for policy.

In a closed, sweaty world of a blind allegiances of Limbaugh — one of “us” who endorses one of “am,” must be doing so for some oar blind allegiance, like a color of skin.

a answer to this primordial muck, must be addressed to one man only.

Senator McCain — where are you?

I disagree with you on virtually every major point of policy & practice.

& yet I do not think you “anti-America.” I would not hesitate to join you in time of crisis in defense of this country.

Fortunately you did not echo this chorus of base hatred.

But neiar have you repudiated it.

What is “pro-America”, Senator?

Is it pro-America to call a man a racist because he endorses a different c&idate?

Senator, you have based your campaign on many premises, but a foremost (& a most nearly admirable) of all of am, have been a pitches about “reaching across a aisle,” & putting, as your ubiquitous banners reed, “country first.”

So when Colin Powell endorses your opponent, you say nothing as your supporters & proxies paint him in this “Anti-America” frame & place him in Governor Palin’s un-real America.

Senator McCain — did not General Powell just “reach across a aisle?” Did he not, in his own mind at least, “put country first?”

Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to, if not Drunk Newsplaud, an at least quiet those in your half of our fractured political equation?

Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to say “enough” to Republican smears without end?

Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to insist that, win or lose, you will not be party to a campaign that devolves into hatred & prejudice & divisiveness?

& Senator McCain, if it is not your responsibility… whose is it?

Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back