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The death of a brand

November 4, 2008 - 8:45 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-11-05 01:24:33

Ben Franklin — along those lines Ace has helped start a “vet the media” campaign and website to do to the Media what they did to Joe the Plumber.

Expose every dirty little secret, shameful past, tawdry relationship, disgraceful behavior, and put up on the web for all to see and gloat over. Destruction matching destruction.

When the Germans hit London in the Blitz, the British did not answer with ever greater measures of politeness. No. They produced Arthur “Bomber” Harris, and practiced their own version of night bombing and firestorms. They did it better.

It is time for the Media and the Entertainment people and the rest to be on the same plane as Joe the Plumber. To suffer the same consequences. Total exposure of their lives, every bit that they would like hidden, out in public for people to paw over and laugh at and snicker and ridicule.

I’m sure things will go even further. TMZ has a nasty reputation for sticking cameras and provocative young stringers in celebrities faces and provoking awful behavior that is captured on tape and shown on their website. The same thing conceptually could be done to Murtha, to Pelosi, to Reid, to all those of that ilk. Along with Katie Couric, or Charles Gibson, and so on.

The websites might have to be overseas, but hey, there is a market for that. I am actually surprised it has not happened already and with a President Obama, it is quite likely. There is a brewing scandal over his own Monica Lewinsky, ala John Edwards, and whoever had information, on President Obama having sex with a woman not his wife would make his reputation the way Drudge did. Worth potentially in excess of $20 million dollars. A pricey sum, even with inflation.

I understand Wretchard’s reluctance, but the reality of the situation is that we are indeed at war. Like Sherman said, the best and most humane way to conduct war is to achieve total victory as soon as possible to minimize the horrors. We are at war with the elites who want to return to 9/10 forever, no less than we are at war with Jihadist Islam.