Yesterday's primary "results" have resulted in endless blather about a GOP race that has been, in the end, entirely predictable. Romney rolls on, with little "surprises" here and there, and ZERO discussion of the issues that the USA actually faces. The Republican field has been singularly debating a rhetorical world of their own devising, without bothering to actually offer solutions or a vision for the problem that We the People actually face.
It is weirdly tautological for animations created to sell a product to ENDORSE that product as celebrities created by the advertising FOR that product.
Punxatawney Phil saw his shadow in the eponymous Pennsylvania town that feeds the rodent. And Donald Trump has endorsed (wait for it …) NEWT GINGRICH! Uh, whoops. They reported FUTURE news, and The Donald, being such a model of consistency, changed his notion at the last minute and ...
If you want to play news, wear a suit and tie, and if you're in jeans, fine, but do it behind a desk. Contrary to popular delusion, you don't need to have a news staff prancing about aerobically to deliver credible, reliable, important news.
And, in its way, that's what I've been leading up to in all of this. The artificial creation of rhetorical bogeymen is a very dangerous tactic. (And, like that GI JOE box, you don't need an actual action figure. You just need language to tell your voting audience what's IN the box. Which may not exist at all, or is merely a series of gut language conditionings attached to the "action figure" you've created.)
HBO is airing Miller’s 2003 “The Raw Feed” comedy special, in which he sneers at anybody who doesn’t “KNOW” that Saddam Hussein was in cahoots with Osama bin Laden, who questions that there are weapons of mass destruction, and pooh-poohs the notion that not having an exit plan is any problem.
Somehow, the words "Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice" caused the elite of the Rightie Blogosmear to use their protean command of logick to formulate the logical statement (Low IQ) + (Conservative Beliefs) = Prejudice and instantly turn it inside-out into the strange self-insult (Conservative) = Stupid + Racist.*
the Roosevelt Administration felt that the "Winkie Situation" was so imminent that they prevailed upon L.B. Mayer at MGM studios to remake the silent film "The Wizard of Oz," as a Winkie War seemed impending and inevitable. J. Edgar Hoover called the "Winkie Affair" "as significant a danger to the health and morality of America and Americanism as the Communists."
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