MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Wolf Blitzer: All Praise to Our Heroic Elite
By DF on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 6:06pm |Wolf Blitzer takes a break from his busy schedule starring as a sycophantic Muppet on CNN to pen a blog post as sycophantic Muppet on CNN's web site. His thesis: Rich politicians surely are noble creatures for getting out there on the campaign trail instead of enjoying their upper crust lifestyle. The pudding gets a bit richer when he erases all hope that he might somehow be talking about a real person somewhere by naming the current crop of animatronic GOP hopefuls as the specific people that he is actively admiring.
Yes, Wolf Blitzer took time out of his day to write about how gosh darned swell Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman, Ron Paul and Rick Perry all are. Like, as human beings. Like, by name. Words cannot express what a vacuous piece of human detritus hides behind that beard. Are we still operating under the assumption that Blitzer is a journalist?
h/t Alex Pareene @ salon.com
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http://www.salon.com/2012/01/11/wolf_blitzer_presents_a_salute_to_politicians/
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Just watched this abomination on last night's Daily Show. What in the hell is wrong with these people? May CNN be unceremoniously sucked into a wormhole.
by DF on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 1:37am
In TeeVee land, rich media executives and pundits say that all the rich are noble people!!
WaPo columnist and general pundit Bernard Goldberg in 2010, in Thank God for Rich People:
I have an idea for a monument in our nation’s capital. I envision a big bronze and granite statue that would honor an entire group of Americans who are true heroes, and unsung heroes at that. It is time — no, make that long past time — to pay tribute to those this nation of ours owes a great debt; to those who give and give and give and in return get anything but our gratitude.
This is an idea whose time has finally come.
Right there, amongst the sacred national structures that honor great Americans, we need to build a shiny monument to …The Rich......
by NCD on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 1:01pm
Damn. I was hoping that was satire, but it appears to be sincere(ish).
by Verified Atheist on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 2:20pm
Right. They get anything but gratitude in return. As in, literally, anything. Care, planes, yachts, land, stocks, bonds, healthcare and all the political influence money can buy. However, if what they really want is gratitude, I'm sure we can work some sort of, ahem, free trade agreement.
Is there anything more repugnant than these callous, rich bastards for whom being disproportionately wealthy and powerful still isn't enough? When they talk about returning to the values of the past, are they really talking about the values of, say, ancient Egypt? Because they're really starting to sound like Pharoahs.
All hail the shiny golden gods.
by DF on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 2:53pm