It’s Been A Long Day
August 16, 2018 by 21 Comments
It’s a been a long day. You’ve turned on the tube and flip to a cable news channel. Any news channel will do. MSBC. CNN. Fox.
You expect a deluge of the following:
Amarosa. Secret Tapes. Hush Money. Collusion. Russia. Manafort. Cohen. Yanking Security Clearances. Secret tapes. Rigged Witch Hunt. Michael Avenati. Stormy Daniels. Putin. Cover-ups. Tariffs. Trump Tower Meeting. Lies. Fake News.
Instead, you sit mesmerized watching the media and Sarah Huckabee Sanders at the Daily Press Briefing in a back and forth exchange:
- Media A: “Sarah: Can you tell us about the President’s plans to improve the math, science and english scores for all of our children?”
- Media B: “Sarah: Can you tell us what the government is doing to return the 450 migrant children who have been separated from their parents?”
- Media C: “Sarah: Can you tell us what the Government is doing to prevent the spread of red tide and the killing of hundreds of species of sea life in Florida? And what we’re doing to prevent this from happening again?”
- Media D: “Sarah: Can you tell us about the President’s plans on improving the state of our nation’s airports, highways, subways and railways?”
- Media E: “Sarah: Can you tell us what we are doing to stop the spread of the California wildfires?”
- Media F: “Sarah: Can you tell us what we are doing to protect our children from gun attacks in our schools?”
- Media G: “Sarah: Can you tell us what we are doing to prosecute the 300 priests who molested 1000’s of children in Pennsylvania over the last 70 years?”
Photo: Washington Post
Vintage 1942: The more things change, the more they…
August 3, 2016 by 32 Comments
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed […]”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks, 1935-1942
Notes: Quote Source – Schonwiener. Photo: George Horner on The Bowery Billboard (via this isn’t happiness)