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Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?
1-1-02 | Mia T

Posted on 01/01/2002 9:53:23 AM PST by Mia T

Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?
by Mia T, 1-1-02
 
 
George Orwell once asked a Stalinist, "Why all the bloodshed?"
 
"You cannot make an omelet without breaking a few eggs", came the reply.
 
"But", replied Orwell, "where is the omelet?"
 
"Oh, well, it takes practice to get it right", said the other.
 
Utopians, in short, can live for a long time in the future; the present does not prove anything to them. In the mid-70s, I was was talking to Jacques Attali, later to be a special advisor to President Mitterrand and, in 1990, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
 
"You socialists", I said, "never compare capitalism as it is with socialism as it is. You compare capitalism as it is with an ideal socialism that, you claim, will be in the future."
 
"Why not, " laughed this brilliant man, "since socialism is the future!"
 

-- Jean-François Revel, Democracy Against Itself, pp. 96, 97

 
 
 
Scattered, intractable, diverticulitic pockets of useful idiots of clintondom have resumed their throne-sniffing ways, but this time even more absurdly, as the thrones are vacant--or as I would prefer to put it--the vacant are dethroned. (The throne-sniffers, on the other hand, would argue that they are simply handling delicate interregnal matters.)
 
The throne-sniffers can be spotted hither and yon, busy as bees, pasting and cutting, attempting Midas-like to tranmute the seemingly endless pile of clinton -- uh -- dross: the ineptitude, depravity, failure, culpability; the clinton booooos, metaphoric and literal.
 
But will Riefenstahl-esque editing prove sufficient post 9/11? (Indeed, was clinton trash really transmutable pre 9/11?)
 
In this age of real-time propagation of information, real-time dissemination of information, real-time mass duplication of information, only a desperate fool would try to edit out the clinton booooos...
 
Only a desperate fool would fail to recognize that editing out clinton booooos is the paradigmatic exercise in futility. (clinton booooos--past, present and future--are in infinite supply, you see.)
 
Post 9/11, a scatological response to the clintons is reflexive and virtually universal.
 
Post 9/11, even the most hopelessly ignorant and partisan, (with the inexplicable exception of Helen Thomas), are able to comprehend their collective posterior's precarious position; and they are able to connect the dots rather easily from it to clinton hyper-narcissism, ineptitude and depravity.
 
The American aesthetic, if not American good sense, dictates that someone--Carville would be a poetically just choice--really ought to clue the clintons in. "It's the terrorism, stupid."

Q ERTY4 + Q ERTY6 = rodham clinton REALITY CHECK!

To his astonishment the handshake was declined. "You are not fit to be president of the United States," said Shughart Senior. "The blame for my son' s death rests with the White House and with you. You are not fit to command."

Dead Hero's Father Tears into Clinton

London Sunday Times

Copyright 1994 Times Newspapers Limited 

May 29, 1994, Sunday

2-27-01

Frankenstein, The Sequel:

'Black Hawk Down' Was Set to Blame Clinton for 9/11

Hollywood--premier clinton creator--decides instead to edit out its own culpability for 9/11 by editing out clinton's culpability for 9/11

 

As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial....By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions," by eliminating the human, Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman.

Film Noir in the White House

Film Noir in the White House
by Mia T
"Read my future." - "You haven't got any."
--Exchange in Touch of Evil between Orson Welles and Marlene Dietrich (as a gypsy fortune teller)
 
 
 
Leni Riefenstahl, the film genius who outmaneuvered propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels to chronicle Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rallies in perhaps the most notorious documentary ever filmed, Triumph of the Will, symbolizes the naïve actress and director who is induced to deal with devils -- Nazi-pantalooned then. . . nasty, pantless (or nasty, pantsuited) now . . .
 
After the war, Riefenstahl excused her effort as pure documentary -- watch for Streisand, Spielberg, Geffen et al. to do the same one day -- yet she compiled one section, Hitler's motorcade to Munich, from several different events and shot the closeups of Nazi leaders at the podium in a staged studio sequence.
 
As Riefenstahl told it, editing-to-perfection was crucial. She insisted that the finished quality of Triumph of Will came from her editing, not from any imposition of "posed shots" or choreography on her part. With her innovative editing techniques, Riefenstahl deliberately and selectively aestheticized Hitler and the Congress' proceedings. By editing out a shot of Hitler wiping his nose and including instead "more interesting expressions," by eliminating the human, Riefenstahl eliminated the inhuman.
 
The only difference today, in this era of ubiquitous cameras, continuous news and the shameless auteur-tyrant, is that the useful-idiot Washington Press Corps, spun by and on the Hollywood-Arkansas Axis, edits out the clintons' inhumanity (and ineptitude) in real time. . .
 
 

12-21-01
 
CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme Fails in its 1st Effort
 
Bill O'Reilly Laughs Lanny Davis Off Stage
 
Calls "It's the economy, stupid" an Utter Absurdity Post-9/11
by Mia T

NEW YORK, Dec 21--Diehard clinton lackey, Lanny Davis tested the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme in what the clintons likely regard their most difficult venue, "The O'Reilly Factor." The top-rated Fox News show demonstrated once again that its motto, "the no spin zone," is no spin.

The eponymous host swiftly stopped the spin (and the spin). O'Reilly debunked all the shameless clinton-directed revisionism spewed by Davis, exposing the absurdity of the CLINTON-WAS-AN-UTTER-FAILURE Containment Team Scheme even as he underscored clinton's immutable legacy of depravity and failure.

more...
 
The Placebo President (aided and abetted by the media myrmidons of the left) strikes again
by Mia T
 
Most interesting about the impeached ex-president's revisionist schemes is his calculation that incompetency is a preferable legacy to idiocy or a sui generis narcissistic sedition.
more...
compulsive clinton CYA-ing CONTINUES

(so does 4th-estate malfeasance)

VH1 re-broadcasts the concert for America where Hildabeast was booed off the stage - except this time they edited out the boos AND REPLACED THEM WITH CHEERS!!!

Calling George Orwell!!

7 posted on 12/31/01 9:26 PM Pacific by Rockinfreakapotamus

 

hillary's head revisited:

hillary clinton's brain (such as it is) II
 by Mia T

The smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it.

hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind...

In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."

(More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent.")

Clinton's failure to grasp the opportunity to unravel increasingly organized extremists, coupled with Berger's assessments of their potential to directly threaten the U.S., represents one of the most serious foreign policy failures in American history

Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize

 

 

Bill Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is the worst person to be president.*

---GEORGE WILL, Sleaze, the sequel

 

Had George Will written Sleaze, the sequel (the "sequel" is, of course, hillary) after 9-11-01, I suspect that he would have had to forgo the above conceit, as the doubt expressed in the setup phrase was, from that day forward, no longer operational.

Indeed, assessing the clinton presidency an abject failure is not inconsistent with commentary coming from the left, most recently the LA Times: "Clinton Let Bin Laden Slip Away and Metastasize."

When the clintons left office, I predicted that the country would eventually learn--sadly, the hard way--that this depraved, self-absorbed and inept pair had placed America (and the world) in mortal danger. But I was thinking years, not months.

It is very significant that hillary clinton didn't deny clinton culpability for the terrorism. (Meet the Press, 12-09-01), notwithstanding tired tactics (if you can't pass the buck, spread the blame) and chronic self-exclusion. ("I knew nuttin'.")

If leftist pandering keeps the disenfranchized down in perpetuity, clinton pandering,("it's the economy, stupid"), kept the middle and upper classes wilfully ignorant for eight years.

And ironically, both results (leftist social policy and the clinton economy) are equally illusory, fraudulent. It is becoming increasingly clear that clinton assiduously avoided essential actions that would have negatively impacted the economy--the ultimate source of his continued power--actions like, say, going after the terrorists.

It is critically important that hillary clinton fail in her grasp for power; read Peggy Noonan's little book, 'The Case Against Hillary Clinton' and Barbara Olson's two books; it is critical that the West de-clintonize, but that will be automatic once it is understood that the clintons risked civilization itself in order to gain and retain power.

It shouldn't take books, however, to see that a leader is a dangerous, self-absorbed sicko. People should be able to figure that out for themselves. The electorate must be taught to think, to reason. It must be able to spot spin, especially in this age of the electronic demagogue.

I am not hopeful. As Bertrand Russell noted, "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "

Mia T, hillary clinton blames hubby for terrorism

(SHE knew nuttin')

Meet the Press, 12-09-01

 

 

*George Will continues: There is reason to believe that he is a rapist ("You better get some ice on that," Juanita Broaddrick says he told her concerning her bit lip), and that he bombed a country to distract attention from legal difficulties arising from his glandular life, and that. ... Furthermore, the bargain that he and his wife call a marriage refutes the axiom that opposites attract. Rather, she, as much as he, perhaps even more so, incarnates Clintonism



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1 posted on 01/01/2002 9:53:30 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?

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It will if it's repeated often enough and it's the only source of information available to evaluate the Clintons. With leftists in control of TV news, that is the way it will be.

2 posted on 01/01/2002 11:16:39 AM PST by RLK
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To: Mia T
By covering unfairly for Clinton, the shills draw attention to his flaws, and their corruption. Do these folks never learn it's the cover-up that's remembered?

'Black Hawk Down' Was Set to Blame Clinton for 9/11

Hollywood--premier clinton creator--decides instead to edit out its own culpability for 9/11 by editing out clinton's culpability for 9/11

3 posted on 01/01/2002 11:31:24 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: RLK
 

Your implicit assumption, that leftist-controlled TV news will be the only source of information, is, IMO, incorrect. It is already only a vestige of its former self.

4 posted on 01/01/2002 11:54:55 AM PST by Mia T
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To: Mia T
that leftist-controlled TV news will be the only source of information

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The only source, no.

The one that useful idiots "rely" upon, yes.

Foxnews, the web, FR, and other alternative news sources reach only the interested, the involved and the intelligent. The voting masses still rely primarily upon the boob tube.

5 posted on 01/01/2002 12:14:26 PM PST by the
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To: Mia T
(And I forgot to mention -- Another great piece, Mia T. Your work, as always, is fantastic.)
6 posted on 01/01/2002 12:15:28 PM PST by the
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Always amazing, as usual, Mia! Thank you for your posts.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!......FRegards

7 posted on 01/01/2002 4:48:44 PM PST by gonzo
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To: Mia T
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8 posted on 01/01/2002 6:09:42 PM PST by GOPJ
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To: the
  • IMO, 9/11 changes the whole dynamic. Personal posteriors will tend to trump political agendas and intellectual sloth.
  • Leftist-controlled TV news appears to be approaching extinction, in any case.
Have you noticed that the useful-idiot Washington press corps (with the inexplicable exception of Helen Thomas), has become somewhat less so post 9/11?  

One example: Eleanor Cliff actually selected bill clinton as the "McLaughlin Group Loser Politician of the Year." (Admittedly, Cliff didn't abandon useful idiocy completely; by giving as her reason for selecting the rapist some lesser clinton achievement than causing 9/11, she was implicitly denying that clinton did, in fact, cause 9/11.)


9 posted on 01/02/2002 1:28:42 AM PST by Mia T
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10 posted on 01/02/2002 1:48:04 AM PST by f.Christian
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To: Mia T
Great post! I actually believe that the bitch is more evil than the bastard.

While the male Clinton could fake sincerity, the female Clintons eyes give her away.

They show a bitter, condecending, vengeful swine. God help us conservatives if the pig is on the democrat ticket in 2004.

The soccermoms, blacks, hispanics and elderly will flock to her. The leftist media will genuflect before her.

She is a true marxist who would prefer to disolve the legislative and judicial branches of government and abolish the Electoral College.

11 posted on 01/02/2002 3:01:31 AM PST by johnny7
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To: Mia T
Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?

Of course.

Speaking of Leni Riefensthahl, she herself, is in the process of being "rehabiliated". Jodie Foster is making a film of her, from the propsective of Leni being a feminist icon.

Still, it must have been a hard sell for Jodie to raise the money in Hollywood, don't you think?

12 posted on 01/02/2002 3:05:23 AM PST by bulldog905
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Q ERTY4 + Q ERTY6 = helen thomas REALITY CHECK BUMP!

Post 9/11, a scatological response to the clintons is reflexive and virtually universal.
 

Post 9/11, even the most hopelessly ignorant and partisan, (with the inexplicable exception of Helen Thomas), are able to comprehend their collective posterior's precarious position; and they are able to connect the dots rather easily from it to clinton hyper-narcissism, ineptitude and depravity.

Mia T, Will Riefenstahl-esque "editing to perfection" resurrect the clintons?

 

 

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15 posted on 01/02/2002 8:38:39 AM PST by Mia T
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