Even more from the Twilight Zone! Nick Gillespie of Reason writes:
Back in June, Interim White House Communications Director Anita Dunn chatted up her two favorite philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Theresa, to some audience that has now been repurposed for Glenn Beck. Who suddenly seems less insane than sane.
I admit it. I want my reality back. I don’t know when it went missing. But I want it back.
I think reality as we know it departed sometime between September of last year, when the economy cratered, and January, when President Obama and Vice President Biden were inaugurated. Speaking of the latter man and alternate realities, here’s the latest Newsweek cover, which I spotted in a newsstand last night at San Jose airport before flying down to Western CPAC — so at least in some reality, it really is real:
I have no idea who wrote the headline on the cover — and I can understand wanting to protect that person’s anonymity, if he ever wants to work outside of Newsweek. But the article it promotes was co-written by Evan Thomas, so I guess this is damning with faint praise — for Thomas, Obama is “Sort of God”, but Biden is “No Joke.” But once you’ve used the word “joke” and the person you’re carrying water for in the same sentence, isn’t it game over for him?
Sometime last year, Newsweek morphed from being a weekly magazine about, you know, news and became a liberal political magazine found in dentists’ waiting rooms and on supermarket checkout counter shelves. But imagine the hoots that the old Newsweek would have given, say, National Review in 1989, if they ran a cover story whose giant headline read “Why Quayle Is No Joke.”
Meanwhile, the Professor writes:
“AM I THAT DANGEROUS?” Blogger booted by Biden. When Biden’s talking, anyone with a camera and YouTube access is a threat . . . .
Unless it’s Newsweek, whom you’ve rendered perfectly toothless, and therefore, safe. (Unlike those crazy-dangerous gonzo para-journalists at the radical rightwing Fox news, of course.)
Related: Ed Morissey explores alternate realities much more toxic than Newsweek: “LaRouchies and Chomskys and Godwins, oh my!”
I believe Anita “I Heart Dictators” Dunn actually said “political philosophers” when she made reference to Mother Teresa and Mao. That in itself reveals much… Whatever else she was, Mother Teresa was not a “political philosopher.” Gosh, it is almost as if Anita wanted to equate the charitable works of Mother Teresa with the political philosophy of tyranny espoused and realized under Mao. The dissonant gap between the fact that Mao presided over the death of literal millions and Mother Teresa tried to keep people from dying is something we may safely ignore in our unreal age.
I wanted to call it: Joe Biden, The Rodney Dangerfield Vice Presidency, but was overruled, by a cell phone call from George Soros, I think.
what a Sore a$$ Loserman, and Nazi informant at the age of 12, turning in jews to the Nazi’s in Hungary.
“… a vice-president to be reckoned with”? Is that actually *English*?
I look forward to “Why Newsweek is no Joke”. Fortunately, there won’t be any fishwrap around to write it.
Once you say “Why Joe is No Joke” you are admitting that yes, Joe is a joke.
We might not have to worry about Newsweek much longer.
My source inside is apparently pretty good. She tipped me off on the first round of layoffs, the second round, the office closings, the panic when too many people took “the package” and left.
Now she tells me the magazine and its parent are in such dire straits they are looking to merge. With any takers. I have taken a blood oath not to disclose the name of the parent companies discussing merger, but let’s just say Newsweakling may meet a very timely death in the near future.
I was a Mao fan for a short while when as a lad I read “The Long March” by Snow(?) As a grandson of a few hundred generations of farmers, I lost my enthusiasm when I read about the forced collectivization of farmland. Dunn is old enough to know better, like most of the Obama posse. All deluded as the Great Helmsman. The East is Red and Obama is a one term mistake. It would be a miracle if someone could effectively explain why Biden is not a joke. We entered the Twilight Zone on Election Night. Watching the stage show in Chicago. A black guy, sure, that’s pretty cool, but this guy? This can’t be happening to the good old USA. He’s too eager to serve mankind. Can’t we rewind or Restore System to an earlier date? Not until Rod Serling is done with messing with us. One day we will wake up from what has to be just a scripted nightmare and find the Today Show discussing the downside of entitlement addiction and how it relates to affirmative action. Any day now.
“I’ll let ya be in MY dream if I can be in yours!”
–Bob Dylan, “Talkin’ WWIII Blues”