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Now look what you big meanies have done. Poor Lynx and Lamb "were in tears," after the reaction to their Primetime debut, their lawyer tells Newsweek. "This is going to follow them for the rest of their lives," he says, adding that they "are living in an undisclosed location and there will be no personal appearances until this thing is long blown over."

Who knows when that will be. The floodgates are now open, and while readers of this site have long known the joys of Crushin' Blue, the rest of the world is eagerly playing catch-up (though I do wish I'd been the one to think of Cute Klux Klan).

Little there will be news to you, though local columnist Bill McEwen has some fun background color on the twins' parents. Apparently dad once pissed off a crowd that had gathered to see an image of the Virgin Mary that had appeared on a tree by chainsawing the fucker down and shouting, "You Catholics! There's your virgin!" Which is pretty funny, really. And mom "burst into local lore in 1994 riding a horse -- white, of course -- near Blackstone and Shaw avenues while wearing bumper stickers across her breasts, a G-string, a cowboy hat with bunny ears, a white bunny tail and cowboy boots." Which, if you've seen mom: eew.

But anyway I finally watched the Primetime segment and I have to say, it is an amazing comment on the state of TV news that I came away from it more disgusted by Primetime than by the neo-Nazis. I almost never watch this kind of show, but I was absolutely stunned and horrified by the hacky narration and ham-handed production.

First of all, despite the fact that you could actually hear some Prussian Blue music -- certainly enough to tell that it is horrendously off-key and off-putting -- and that L&L are not nearly as cute "live" as they are in their photos -- the Primetime segment was built on the premise that "Lynx and Lamb Gaede may be one of the most effective recruiting tools in the white nationalist movement today." Yeah, "may be" as in "or maybe not." Evidence that anyone actually enjoys Prussian Blue's caterwauling was presented exactly never.

Then, if there's anything so self-evidently evil as a Nazi, I don't know what it is. A pretty effective show would have been to just turn the camera on Lynx & Lamb and their wack pack and just sitting back. The bit about them playing the ethnic cleansing video game worked OK for that reason. But apparently the producers thought that merely wanting to kill "muds" didn't seem evil enough, so they slathered on the ominous music and even, at one point, did that thing where they show the girls photo in creepy black and white negative. At the end, the poor NAACP guy dragooned into commenting on this non-story says, "We now live in a nation that is inclusive and that recognizes that diversity is a strength. And frankly, if people do not think that they want to live in that country, they're in the wrong place." And Primetime cuts to a multi-ethnic crowd somewhere in urban USA and then -- I'm not kidding -- dissolves to a fluttering American flag.

Exactly how dumb does Primetime think its viewers are? Well, you know that picture of them in the t-shirts? You'd think that would speak for itself, right? Here's the narration that accompanied it:

"April Gaede misses no opportunity for her blonde-haired, blue-eyed girls to talk about race, even on their clothes. The girls' smiley-faced t-shirt has a message. [pause] Look closely at the face. [pause] It's not just a smiley face. [pause] It's Adolf Hitler's face."

You don't say!

But wait, the show ends on a note of hope, as a seemingly wonderous Cynthia McFadden says, "But in fact, the more time we spent with... the girls, the more it seemed most Americans don't accept their racist messages."

No, most Americans are psychopathic hatemongers? Well thank god for that. And it's a good thing you spent enough time with them to figure it out, or you might have left us with the impression that these fringe nutjobs were some sort of threat to the nation.

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Posted by Daniel Radosh

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