Simon Says Think This
Watching news clips of the pack of hungry jackals beseiging a pathetically wounded Britney Spears I was struck by the analogy with the media journalists and pundits covering the presidential campaign, breathlessly creating the story they're supposedly covering. Hillary Clinton had a moment during a Q and A in New Hampshire where she momentarily choked up when a questioner touched a nerve. Within minutes it was trumpeted around the world as a meltdown that would destroy her political ambitions. The next day it was being proclaimed by the same "experts" as the reason for her victory in the New Hampshire, and for the next week the media couldn't talk about anything else. But the fact is, there was no story. She was understandably exhausted and got emotional for a few seconds. The pundits saw it first as a crack in her armor, and then as her humanity being revealed, and they attributed their screball ideas to what they seem to think is a monolithic public. They make their cheesy living inventing that craptrap the way the scumball paparazzi make their living hounding Miss Spears, and if they all went away I'm convinced the public would be the happier for it.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:40 AM
8 Comments:
Who in the hell would want to be famous? Once out in the public eye... your life (successes and failures thoughts ideals emotions) are manufactured "to order" by the low life playing God behind the camera lens or keyboard.
If visual artists are often surprised (and sometimes irritated) by what viewers read into their paintings... imagine for a moment how devastating it would be to have the same thing happen to your life all in the name of making a buck.
Whatever happened to DO UNTO OTHERS?
Oh and John... I like the cartoon... it's so great to be back at the Beer and Barf! (((LOL)))
Oops... make that Brew and Barf... the place must have changed hands!
LOL, Jean. It's also been incarnated as the Beef 'N Barf. As far as "do unto others" is concerned, I think nowadays it's too often, "do unto others before thay do unto you."
The problem here is that these poor souls (yes even the ones who went out looking for it) can't "do under others what has been done to them"... as they have no real form of defense (or recourse) against the media pack.
Sadly... the mud that is flungeth unfortunately sticketh! LOL
Hillary was entirely sincere. She was exhausted, had taken so many hits from the media that it would have made a less strong person give up but she stayed in there, fighting for what she believes is correct. Wish that Bill would stay out of the limelight as every times he opens his mouth, he puts Hillary in an awkward position. I may not agree with all her policies but I do think that she is a strong, courageous woman who is political savvy and just might make a darn good president. Maybe she is not warm and fuzzy but is that what we need in a president?
Oddly...if Hillary were a man her strength and steely resolve would be considered a good trait to have.
I agree wholeheartedly with you Lee that her momentary lapse of (understandable) emotion was that of a very human person. I have seen male Prime Ministers break down. It's a natural human response... and not something we should be admired (or admonished) for. It's what we humans DO if we possess a heart at all... (an essential attribute in my book for any hopeful aspirant!)
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