“We”? Who the Fuck Is “We”?: The Triumphant Return of America’s Sad Clown of Centrism

Just when you think America's Sad Clown of Centrism has had the good taste to disappear from sight forever --

Democrats, please drop the couch crap. It’s a lie. We aren’t the liars. They are.

It’s juvenile. It’s dishonest. It’s off brand. And we don’t need it.

Be better

— Ron Fournier (@ron_fournier) August 7, 2024

-- he bobs right back to the surface like some unflushable 2016 turd. H/T to Alert Reader @VijayKSaraswat for pointing this in my direction.  I had to get the embed code through various devious means because Mr. Fournier blocked me years ago for, well, writing stuff like this.

A clip from me in January of 2019, with vintage Chuck Todd included for no extra charge!

...How much of a gift is Howard Schultz to cable news?  So much that the were able to haul discredit farce of nature Ron Fournier out of mothballs and put him in front of a camera to recite the only poem he knows:  The Road Not Taken Because The K'rupt Duopoly Ruined Everything!

When I was coming up, I was taught (at the wee schoolhouse shanty I walked to five miles both ways uphill and up to my knees in snow) that the five basic forms of literary conflict were: Human versus Human, Human versus Nature, Human versus Society, Human versus God and Human versus Themselves.  Which, as basic Lit 101 lists go, isn't terrible, although it does omit legitimate variations like Human versus Technology/Science.

However given the absolute mindlessness with which corporations pursue their own ends often to the detriment of humanity, it really is long past time to add Human versus Corporation to the canon of recognized forms of literary conflict.  As writers from C.M Kornbluth and Fred Pohl to William Gibson have shown, corporations -- which are not quite nature, and not quite society, and not quite human but are composed of humans -- can make splendidly relentless and aggressive antagonists and should be officially blessed as such by whoever bestows such blessings.

Point being, Ron Fournier may be a clown and an embarrassment to his former profession, but he isn't the main villain here.

The main villains here are media corporations which will grant priceless air time and column inches to virtually any talentless clown who will help advance their bold agenda of not paying taxes by poisoning healthy public discourse with Both Siderist bullshit.

* UPDATE:  Because he has stopped cashing checks by shouting "Both Sides Do It" under the cover of journalism and started cashing checks by shouting "But Both Do It" for a PR shop, I have pretty much stopped giving a damn what America's Sad Clown of Centrism does with his time.

But this is hilarious (h/t Alert Reader Jeanne):

Ron Fournier Is President Of A ‘Bipartisan’ PR Firm, But His Clients Are Republicans

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“The firm remains committed to its bipartisan roots,” [Michigan-based public relations firm] Truscott Rossman said in a recent press release announcing that it would open a new D.C. office. In a phone interview with TPM Wednesday, Fournier said the new office would “get me up to Washington at least once a month,” presumably to bring his Democratic perspective to the capital.

But, as it turns out, none of Fournier’s known clients at the firm are Democrats; in fact, TPM couldn’t find an example of a Democratic client at the largely Republican-leaning firm at all...

 

And this, boys and girls, is why bloggers have archives.  

 

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