Tuesday, May 1, 2012
It's an odd conflation, no, the mixing of the fourth estate and tawdry celebrity at the White House Press shindig? Were there more of the cloyingly affected at this year's happening or does it just seem that way because Obama's most representative constituency is the nip and tucked botox crowd and he himself is for all intents and purposes more celebrity than president? Regardless, still odd that we so effortlessly conflate without a seeming sense of shame or even irony the press, supposed guardians of truth and integrity and rational oversight and civic virtue with celebrity, the very epitome of vacuous, superficial, self centered idiocy. Says something bad about about us, no? Hard to see how it's a good thing, anyway. The absurdity of it was brought home to me when I was watching briefly that idiot on CNN, Piers something, British wanker who spouts off moronically on all and sundry but because his foolishness is uttered in the green and pleasant tones of the inebriated isle Americans confuse it for intelligence - but to continue, the absurdity of it struck me when this Piers asshole says to Jonah Goldberg, who he was interviewing at time, says, as if the truth of it were self evident, that surely it's a good thing that Obama is perceived as 'cool' and Goldberg, who has just written a book on the liberal tendency to utter nonsensical gibberish as if it were perfectly sensible, had no answer - he just hemmed and hawed and sort of disagreed but without any gusto or decisiveness - I mean, my god, how can you not guffaw with scorn and call the man an idiot for saying something like that? I thought that was an intriguing exchange [that's all of the interview I watched, it was just so annoying - possibly Goldberg acquitted himself with more honor later on].
