Licking the Boot that Kicks You
September 23rd, 2009 - 6:33 pm
On the first of this week’s Trifecta segments, I’m sitting in the host’s chair, and Bill Whittle and Scott Ott take questions on what could possibly be wrong with hack artists taking your money to support someone else’s political agenda.
“We won,” right?
Hmmm. . . I’ll take “Piss Christ” for $200, Alex.
Let’s go with “dung-painted portrait of the Virgin Mary” for $400.
I listen to a lot of NPR (though I often can’t explain why) and I clearly recall a Sunday afternoon in early spring, driving in my car. Just before This American Life came on they took a station break and announced a policy that NPR, a tax-payer supported radio broadcaster, would not report on Obama’s smoking. They’re reasoning was that if the media pressured Obama to give up smoking then then he would be perfect and the pressure of being perfect would cause him to cheat on his wife, which would be devastating to his supporters.
I know how that sounds, but they delivered it straight, with no hint that they were joking and, besides, I don’t think the staff at NPR is capable of the sort of self-deprecation necessary for this to be a joke.
In the face of that, I’m not wowed by Breitbart’s latest scandal. In fact, I don’t even see it as news. It’s exaclty what I expect from government funded culture.