Unveiling the Marble Douchebag

Meet Josh "Ticky Tacky" Trevino, former Bush speechwriter, and vice president of public policy at Pacific Research Institute, a free market think tank dedicated to privatizing public education.

Hat tips to SadlyNo, Constructive Nihilism via Martin for the title of this post.

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[mudkitty]

What free markets?

[Lindsay Beyerstein]

Freedom for those who own markets, I guess.

[gordo]

Trevino doesn't even pass the laugh test. I followed the link from Chris Clarke's site, and there was Trevino, defender of Cheney, Rove, and Libby, criticizing the incivility of the left because somebody at Kos publicized "information about spouses of political enemies."

And what terrible information was published? Did someone at Kos disclose the identity of an undercover CIA agent? No. The diarist pointed out that Carol Darr's husband is a journalism professor.

Poor Carol Darr. How will she ever manage to cope with the fact that her husband's carefully-guarded secret has been made public?

What I found most amusing was that Clarke's piece, entitled "Fuck your Civility," is completely civil. He doesn't rant at Trevino, or accuse him, Goldstein-style, of trying to stick his finger in a dog's ass (I never understood that particular Goldsteinism).

He merely argues that Trevino and others on the right advocate terrible things, things like invasions and bombings and degredation of the planet. Things like keeping health care from the poor and forcing women to take unwanted pregnancies to term. Things like racism and anti-Muslim bigotry.

You can't say Clarke is being uncivil just because he says that right wingers pushed for an unnecessary war in Iraq, or because he points out that the war has brought misery and death to Iraqis.

So it turns out that Clarke is such a nice guy, he winds up being civil even when he's trying his darndest to be nasty.