Bob Herbert: Why is everyone missing the phallic symbols in McCain’s Britney ad?

I'm sorry; I should have made a reference, truly. Robert Campbell and Robert Bly are writers whose works you might have seen underpining most the radical feminist rants about "evil" men and their obsessions with "penis" representations. There are pennings by Bly that I like much. Mr. Bly is the representative "drum beater" that various leftwing men's groups herald. Mr. Joseph Campbell, OTOH, writes about archetypes as well; but focuses more purely on how "mother earth" gets repeatedly raped by "evil men". For example: "According to Joseph Campbell (1964), the original Greek creation myths have ..... omnipotent phallic mother who must be castrated if the son is to survive. ...

A men's author (Bly) and one, a man, who writes for the female perspective (Campbell).

Both are focused on those things "phallic".

Herbert thinks he's activating both wings of the truly academic "phallic obsessed" in the left to "fight the right". If he's successful in doing so, (not only will Howard Dean thank him); but we can expect a ton of lengthy, wordy, articles of pure streaming lunacy and global "warming" to be hitting the web soon.

Obviously, Herbert feels Obama needs such protections from such things as simple questions and debate items during a Presidential Election run.

I can almost hear the drumbeating beginning. Yes, it is horrifically boring; but can be quite entertaining.

Pardon my error in response. In re Paul McCartney and the Abbey Road and the Magical Mystery Tour reference - when I was quite young, the Beatles had a PR blitz re the albums Abbey Road and Magical Mystery Tour. The PR blitz had Paul McCartney dying on Abbey Road... "he blew his mind out in a car"; That Paul had died, but you had to understand all the "mystical references". The Walrus being a Scandinavian reference to "death"; and the Walrus standing behind Paul on the Magical Mystery Tour Album was another "sign".

This, right here, the two albums, is where the whole "play the albums in reverse for the secret message" began. It began with these two albums. That if you played certain songs backwards, you'd get a secret message.

My fam and I watched the whole "special" on TV.

It was treated as NEWS, like a special news report. It was a pure PR blitz.

Nonetheless, it was freaky sufficient to where I had nightmares (I was a kid); and dreaming that Paul McCartney's head was buried under my bed. And I kept the bedding wrapped tightly around my neck, sure the Chopper was coming for me next! I finally summoned my nerve to leap from bed to doorway to exit my nightmares in the middle of the night. It was one heck of a PR stunt done for The Beatles. And once I figured the whole thing out, I became a Rolling Stones Fan, leaving The Beatles to being a delight of my past. As a kid, I was purely disgusted that such a PR blitz was worthy of TV time, and treated as "real". That marked my disillusionment with The Beatles.

But OTOH, it did alert me to being aware to similar scams which began, raised by liberals, on the local and nationwide scene.

I'll handily concur that Paul McCartney composes some fine music. But I'll be bloody damned if I think its worthy of being "knighted" in England.

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