Phil Bronstein of the San Francisco Chronicle (!) has noticed that the press is a little too easy on King Barackus.
No...really.
It's a little convoluted, and not terribly cutting, but it is an acknowledgment of the screaming reality that is driving most of us crazy.
That the Marxist Chronicle would even publish such a thing indicates that the message may be penetrating at the most infatuated levels.
I don't suggest anything will change soon. The Media are still nearly monolithic in their abject adoration of the Anointed One. (The Press must be held responsible for much of the damage being loosed upon us by the empty-suit mangler. If they told the simple truth, he would never have been elected, nor would he enjoy the absurd popularity he does among the Zombies.)
But it's nice to see even the tiniest chink of light in the seemingly perpetual darkness.
The Gunslinger
Joebama American citizens 2024 print
9 months ago
I noticed the "thumbs up,thumbs down" reaction-counts to comments on the article.Anectdotal,fer sure,but...heartening,in a small way.There IS a difference between "public" and "true" popularity (i.e. media vs. regular people)...
ReplyDeleteObnoxious Addendum..."popularity" snipe is a flashback to lessons I learned 35 years ago reading "Ringolevio" book by Emmett Grogan,chronicling the counterculture of SF in the 1960s,and the true Diggers' frustration at Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin,Haight-Ashbury proprietors,Stokely Carmichael,rock bands,Radical poseurs...you get the idea. First half of the book is a heterosexual Genet's "Thief's Journal" set in 50s-early 60s.Cool book.Grogan heroin-o.d.'d later.Broken heart,the schmuck.I highly recommend the book.
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