Friday, April 09, 2010

Given That It Only Takes About 20 Seconds



To reduce a typical, flaccid, 800-word embarrassment by David Fucking Brooks to haiku-length (Today's example: "The Humble Hound") --

"With better leaders
And much better followers
Things would be better."
-- driftglass

-- (which I actually had to pad out with an extra "much" just to bring it up to 17-syllable spec) you'd think, at some point, the New York Times would get tired of paying Kobe Beef filet mignon prices for sawdust meatloaf leftovers.

Also too, at this very moment on the "Charlie Rose Show", Douglas Brinkley ("The Reagan Diaries", the John Kerry biography, “Tour of Duty”, and a bunch of other stuff, some of which is not bad) and Jon Meacham (Newsweek Editor) are engaged in a sweaty, spirited, Villager mutual reacharound session.

Each decry in detail the many, many, many real, factual examples that point conclusively to the fact that the Right has gone sprinting-into-the-desert-screaming-batshit crazy...and then each conjures out of thin air -- using wholly unsupported assertions and wholly false equivalents -- a wholly non-existent "extreme Left"...solely for the purpose of being able to lay big, wet, Serious Journalimism Kisses like "what we really need, Charlie, is more Centrist Democrats and Republicans!" and "we are being ruined -- ruined I tells ya! -- by the extremes on both sides!" on each other's asses.

Your Liberal Media, ladies and gentlemen!

1 comment:

Cirze said...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, my political intelligence god.

I couldn't believe this last night when I saw it myself.

The purposely blind, no-mind, religion-spouting Meacham was no surprise, but Brinkley has exposed himself sufficiently now for me to never read anything else he has written.

Sheesh. Charlie Rose - home of the propaganda spouters - again and again.

Why do we bother? It's become Faux Snooze 2.

tx

Also too, at this very moment on the "Charlie Rose Show", Douglas Brinkley ("The Reagan Diaries", the John Kerry biography, “Tour of Duty”, and a bunch of other stuff, some of which is not bad) and Jon Meacham (Newsweek Editor) are engaged in a sweaty, spirited, Villager mutual reacharound session.

Each decry in detail the many, many, many real, factual examples that point conclusively to the fact that the Right has gone sprinting-into-the-desert-screaming-batshit crazy...and then each conjures out of thin air -- using wholly unsupported assertions and wholly false equivalents -- a wholly non-existent "extreme Left"...solely for the purpose of being able to lay big, wet, Serious Journalimism Kisses like "what we really need, Charlie, is more Centrist Democrats and Republicans!" and "we are being ruined -- ruined I tells ya! -- by the extremes on both sides!" on each other's asses.

Your Liberal Media, ladies and gentlemen!