Ludicrous Lurita

Meet Lurita Doan, 51. She ran the U.S. General Services Administration for 2 years under dictator Bush.

As expected from a Bush appointee, Doan's time in this post was rocked by controversy and waste - leading to her resignation. She even used her post to help Republican cronies.

Now Doan has been hired as the conservative commentator for 5 - count 'em, 5 - Washington, D.C., area radio stations. The stations have not hired a parallel liberal commentator. Doan is their only opinion writer.

The stations in question are the WFED AM/AM simulcast pair and the WTOP FM/FM/FM trimulcast. In each of these simulcasts, the coverage area of the main station appears to completely subsume that of the smaller stations - so the programming is needlessly repeated on multiple stations.

All 5 stations are owned by Bonneville - which runs explicitly conservative stations in other markets. This in turn raises serious IRS issues, as Bonneville is owned by a religious body.

Doan's commentaries are almost exclusively devoted to assailing the fact that Obama won the election.

Diplomatic criticism of Presidents is patriotic. Perhaps nobody has criticized some of Obama's absurd Cabinet appointments more than good ol' moi. But Doan's commentaries are of the rightist sore loser strain.

Lurita Doan must be upset that a Mitt Romney or a Tommy Thompson isn't basking in the White House right now. All the other side has these days is sore loser fail. The Republican Right is operating entirely on a temper tantrum fueled by their election loss.

This was also true in 1993-94. The difference now is that nobody cares what they think anymore.

The real point of this story is that it doesn't matter how much of an incompetent idiot a Bush appointee is. Once they're out of government, the media always has a spot for them. This enables the cycle to repeat again, as their babblings bring conservatives back into government.

There's not a chance in hell though that this will work in next year's midterm elections. People are too shrewd to allow that now. Still it underscores just how right-wing the media is.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/7/750888/-Liberal-Media-Hires-Yet-Another-Loyal-Bushie)