Whenever a Republican woman or a black Republican is appointed to high national office the Democrats immediately realize that their self-appointed status as champions of the people has suffered a devastating blow. It robs them of this threadbare legitimacy and exposes them as posturing advocates of enlightened social progress. They, and their supporters in the liberal press, recognize that Sarah Palin is not only a mortal threat to them in this election but also in many more elections to come, hence the unprecedented level of hostility towards her.
The late Malcolm Muggeridge, himself an extraordinarily accomplished journalist and writer, once noted that journalists are like sharks following an ocean liner feeding off the waste it discharges and hoping for someone to fall overboard, from time to time, in order to provide a positive feast. He went on to say that in order to be successful as a journalist one has to make one's way to the front page or the television screen the ways to which are often paved with bad intentions.
We have had ample evidence of this in recent months. Chris Matthews telling us that when he heard Obama's speech on race relations in America it made his leg tingle, is one of the most egregious examples of sycophancy one can imagine. One wonders what his reaction would have been after hearing Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech, or after reading The Sermon On The Mount, Lincoln's second inaugural address, the speeches of Edmund Burke, or almost any of Churchill's wartime speeches. Doubtless his entire body would be convulsed in a mass of tingles to the extent that he would be unable to sit still long enough to be able to appear on our television screens. The sooner he reads these genuine leg-tingling speeches then the better. Instead of being an objective journalist he has become, along with most of his colleagues, an eager and supine apologist for the Democrats and their weakest of presidential nominees.
Obama's trajectory is now heading south. It is due to the unsustainability of his cult of personality based on a biography that simply does not exist. It is due to the sinking realization that the emperor is naked after all and that the self-idolatry, the lofty, meaningless, speeches, and the air of Harvard hauteur, have become something of a parody. The southbound trajectory should be due to a rigorous examination of his policies and his resume by the Press, but this is not to be expected since such a procedure is best accomplished when not on one's knees or in a prostrate position. They have become lickspittles.
The mere application of printer's ink on paper does not denote Press anymore than the application of paint on canvass denotes art. We must beware the motives of those who seek to influence rather than to inform us. Stanley Baldwin, a British Prime Minister in the 1930s, had it right when he said that the Press seeks power but power without responsibility which, of course, has always been the prerogative of the whore.
Obama's trajectory is now heading south. It is due to the unsustainability of his cult of personality based on a biography that simply does not exist. It is due to the sinking realization that the emperor is naked after all and that the self-idolatry, the lofty, meaningless, speeches, and the air of Harvard hauteur, have become something of a parody. The southbound trajectory should be due to a rigorous examination of his policies and his resume by the Press, but this is not to be expected since such a procedure is best accomplished when not on one's knees or in a prostrate position. They have become lickspittles.
The mere application of printer's ink on paper does not denote Press anymore than the application of paint on canvass denotes art. We must beware the motives of those who seek to influence rather than to inform us. Stanley Baldwin, a British Prime Minister in the 1930s, had it right when he said that the Press seeks power but power without responsibility which, of course, has always been the prerogative of the whore.
Paul: As usual, dead on!
ReplyDeleteGreat observations,in historical context, beautifully expressed.
Thanks for sharing your talent with us.
Vince MVNY
Great observations, Paul!
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