Look who’s giving the Trans-Texas Corrdor a five star review: Gene Shalit’s mustache-fluffer turned third-tier Republican apologist Michael Medved. While rightfully calling out his talk radio colleagues over their Ruby Ridge fever dreams that the Texas “monster highway” will usher in some Illuminati-approved marriage of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada into a “North American Union,” he strictly reaches for the low hanging fruit. Instead of a reasonable look at all the things wrong with the TTC, including that Republican cause célèbre, overzealous use of eminent domain, Medved spends all his meager load creaming the jackbooted Y2K crowd – shooting survivalist straw-men in a barrel.
He does dispense with this chestnut: “Actually, I am afraid of wasting government money on useless mass transit or light rail projects, but I’m hardly terrified by road-building. Any time they want to build super-highways and lay down old-fashioned asphalt to facilitate cars and reduce traffic, every red-blooded American ought to stand up and cheer.” Looking at that face however, I don’t think Medved could be roused to cheer a John Stossel presidency. With that perpetually hangdog puss, it’s like his home’s being foreclosed on every minute of his life. (Via)
This article appears in 2006.