I’ve noticed some resonating signals in the political discourse of the last 24 hours or so. I monitor these things, you see…

Yesterday afternoon I heard Rush Limbaugh complain about media’s coverage of the heatwave in the Northeast, charging, essentially, that it was all so much ado about nothing; that, obviously, it tends to get hot in July. “Big deal.” The same essential message was repeated by the local talk radio hacks (Don and Roma on Chicago’s WLS 890 AM, if you were at all interested) this morning. “They’re a bunch of whiners over there in Pitsburg and Baltimore,” was the essential jist of the right wing ranting at sunrise.

On the other side of the political spectrum, on progressive talk radio, two shows – Stephanie Miller in the morning, and then Ed Schultz in the afternoon – were trash talking the airline industry, accusing them of having unsanitary planes and treating passengers poorly.

Seems like the PR organs of both political parties are sticking close to the bullet points these days. Probably has lots to do with the election in November.

Republicans trying to undermine climate change science. Democrats busting the chops of anti-union industries. You’d expect it, but you wouldn’t expect them to be so transpartent about it.

Wait. Nevermind. Yes you would.