Posted on 05/16/2008 5:58:17 AM PDT by moderatewolverine
Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet.
In the late 1960s the media placed the halo on Robert Kennedy, the tragic dynast whose antiwar and civil rights credentials made him in life - as he remains to this day in death - a kind of devotional figure for most political journalists.
Kennedy at least had charisma and intelligence. But to prove that these were by no means necessary preconditions for the honour, it was conferred a few years later on Jimmy Carter, the plodding nonentity elevated by a willingly compliant press into Everyman, brandishing his steely sword of Truth against the Manichean mendacity of Richard Nixon's Republican legacy.
Partly because of the Carter embarrassment, the 1980s were barren years for the idolators. Try as they might, they couldn't work themselves into much ecstasy over Walter Mondale in 1984 or Michael Dukakis in 1988, though they had little flings with bit-part players Gary Hart and (I kid you not) Bruce Babbitt, a genial former Governor of Arizona.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
“Partly because of the Carter embarrassment, the 1980s were barren years for the idolators.”
Of course the MSM would never annoint the Great Communicator, one of the greatest presidents in the history of the U S.
More like the Great Pretender. Demonrats have the OJ jury. Obama has proven he’s more of the same anger and issues that permeate that party. Of course, they have to masquerade to the public. That’s what being a Demonrat is all about.
LOLOL!
The Brits have a good media!
That depiction looks like the Marxist-Socialist (”Revolutionary”) art that is seen all over China and Russia, and other Marxist countires. It’s repugnant. Perhaps it was meant to be so, however, to make the point. It also bears a similarity to some Watchtower artwork.
We all know what ends up happening to those who are crowned as saviour’s. To escape that fate one needs to only reject the title.
But when a person doesn’t believe in God they constillate the God complex within themselves. Thus making themself equal with God.
Not that McCain would.
That's funny!
Oh! Bama! Oh! Brother!
“Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet.”
Written by someone who gets it.
More like the new Putney Swope:
When the president of a floundering Madison Avenue advertising agency keels over and dies on the conference table during a meeting, the board calls for a vote to designate a new president. Each of the men are so disappointed that the bylaws prohibit voting for themselves that they all abstain by voting for the only black man on the board. And this is how Putney Swope becomes the president of the advertising agency. He decides that since the company is already doomed he might as well go down in flames. "Rockin' the boat's a drag," he says, "Whatcha do is sink the boat!" He immediately fires all the white people, renames the agency "Truth and Soul, Inc.", and puts all the clients who make war toys and cigarettes on notice.
“His Phoniness, The Prince of PC”
The alert among you will have noticed by now that what all these spiritually uplifting leaders have in common. They are all Democrats. Never in any of the chapters of this hagiography does a Republican, a conservative, appear in a remotely similar light. These alien creatures by contrast have always been portrayed as cartoonish representatives of the Dark Side of humanity, or, if they were really lucky, simply idiots, failed B-movie actors and irredeemably ignorant hicks with embarrassingly neanderthal views on women, religion and communism.
It's been a while coming - neither Al Gore in 2000 (before the luminescence created by his recent joint Nobel/Oscar triumphs) nor John Kerry in 2004 quite fit the bill. But it's fairly clear now that, with the near-certain nomination by the Democrats of Barack Obama everything is in place for the media to indulge in one of the greatest, orgiastic media fiestas of hero-worship since Elvis Presley.
With all due respect I know The Times was being sarcastic. I was making the point that according to the MSM, who The Times was mocking, the 1980’s was devoid of great thinkers and leaders. Hello, can anyone in the MSM say Ronald Reagan? Of course not.
Obama: "I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems, ....I will not weaponize space... I will slow development of future combat systems... I will institute a 'Defense Priorities Board' to ensure the quadrennial defense review is not used ..."
Then, there will be peace in our time without the evil republicans causing war!
My change is good for Muslims, Islamofascists, Black Racists, and Chrislims. $crew the Christians and real Jews!
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