L.A. Times blogger lies about bridge

Never trust right-wing loudmouths to get their facts straight.

Meet Andrew Malcolm, a far-right commentator at the already right-wing Los Angeles Times. We've profiled him before because of his inability to grasp basic truisms. Now he's at it again.

President Obama appeared at the I-75 bridge in Cincinnati yesterday to speak in favor of his popular American Jobs Act. Contrary to what Andrew Malcolm claimed in a column yesterday, this bridge qualifies under this bill. What's amazing though is how Malcolm lies in plain sight, thinking no Cincinnati area folks will stumble upon his bullshit to debunk it.

He said of the span, "It's the Brent Spence Bridge. It doesn't really need repairs." It doesn't? Lots of Tri-Staters would get a good laugh out of that statement! Except it wouldn't be so funny if it collapsed because Congress won't fund repairs or the proposed replacement bridge.

Malcolm went on to say, "The bridge was built to handle 85,000 cars and trucks a day, which seemed like a lot back during construction in the Nixon era." Except it was constructed in the Kennedy era, dipshit. That's why it needs replacing now. I suspect Malcolm knows this. He makes it sound like the bridge is brand new, even though it was built before Riverfront Stadium was, which has been gone for years now because sports team owners demanded the taxpayers buy them new stadiums. The Republicans were all for a sales tax hike to pay for Riverfront's replacements, but they won't support a bill that replaces a much older bridge - even though this bill is already paid for.

The right-wing intelligentsia has honed lying into an art form. Their lies rule The Media so thoroughly that it's not even news to us anymore. But when they lie so blatantly about something of such urgent interest locally, they will be called out on it for as long as I can catch them.