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ReplyDeleteSo they did the same goddamn thing they always do: take a basic government function and blow it up into a three day news story that resolves pretty much the same way it was before they started the buggery only hours before their hostage was set to expire.
ReplyDeleteYes, they did manage to make it worse, they always do that, but what they harvested was attention. "Look how important we are before we're even in office" they yawp.
The fact that they got their asses handed to them will not penetrate their media fog to the great majority of lames responsible for their election. Well, Elmo wasn't elected. Like his companies, he just bought the Fergus campaign and now wants to play with it for a while, and get it set to make him a shitload of money.
But the demonstration of just how clueless they are about how the goddamn government works was in their advocacy for shutting down the park service just ahead of the inauguration. Mr. Crowdsize's head would 'splode.
I remember the Australian journalist calling out Friedman over his money and his indignance at the mere thought of calling his judgement into question over something as trivial as the billions of dollars in his bank account.
We don't see a lot of journalism like that any more, which is why Marcy Wheeler says it's counterproductive for the kind of weak journalists we have now to call Fergus and his felons on basic breaches of the constitution. She says they always flip the script and turn such questions into evidence of their persecution. She calls the process "Cotton swabbing" after one of it's chief practitioners, Tom the fuck Cotton.
But we don't have Royko or Molly Ivins any more, so it's on us now. And on that note, thank you again for the podcast. It's winter as of today, but almost all of the snow has melted, which means we can make it to town to buy groceries.
Isn't it Zappadan starting today or some shit?
-Doug in Sugar Pine
OK, so it was the last day, not the first. Shoulda done the Google before clicking publish...
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine