Title : Shamelessness Unbounded
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Shamelessness Unbounded
Courtesy of Pacific Pundit, this morning we have the following:
David Fahrenthold is a reporter for the Washington Post, and has also appeared on PBS, NBC, and MSNBC as a commentator. If we combine the secretive tone of this document-seeking email with the Post’s notorious and unbridled anti-Trump bias, the immediate conclusion must be that Fahrenthold is seeking “dirt” on President Trump and / or his organization. At least, that’s the only conclusion I could reach from the above.
Fahrenthold has defended his email as “normal journalistic protocol.” Really? Did he take any comparable steps during the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama? A great many things about Obama were scrupulously concealed from public view. For example, to this day no one who attended Columbia University is willing to testify that he knew Obama there.
Journalists once did things out in the open. They “pounded the pavement” seeking out the facts about important events. Why the furtive probing for disloyal employees at the Trump Organization? What’s the end in view?
If I were President Trump of any member of his family, I would be incensed. The president can’t afford to act against Farenthold or the Post, but he can express himself about it. He can also advise his sons, who now operate the Trump Organization, on how to discourage responses to this sort of fishing expedition.
Mind you, this isn’t something we should think to be “outside the playbook” for the Post, or for the media generally. The Post has already come out against facts, reason, and civility. Why not encourage disloyalty to one’s employer, if the employer is a Post target for calumny? Why not pretend that there’s nothing untoward about such machinations?
As I wrote just yesterday, I want it all to go away. But it’s been a long time since I last gained the sympathy of any wish-granting entity.
The shamelessness of the Left and its various allies appears boundless. It’s consistent with their priorities, of course. To him who cares about power and nothing else, there are no binding constraints of any kind. At one time leftists at least exhibited a desire not to be “found out” for such tactics, but that appears to have gone by the boards along with the rest of the moral-ethical rules the rest of us are expected to observe.
It’s no wonder Americans are weary of politics and political discourse. It’s become unbearable. The maneuverings – the ones we know about, at least – are shocking. We can’t help but be aware that we’re being lied to and manipulated by conscienceless aspiring dictators whose servants are the basest of thugs. It’s enough to daunt anyone.
An increasing fraction of the country is entering fight-or-flight mode. If we elect to fight, where do we aim? Whom do we target – and with what?
Yet there’s nowhere to flee. Venus is too hot and Mars is too cold. Halley’s Comet isn’t expected back this way until 2061. As for other, more fanciful destinations, there’s no convenient wandering planetoid in prospect.
All that’s left is to pull one’s head into one’s shell and hope to outlast the whole miserable mess.
The great majority of Americans are perfectly decent...if you can get them not to talk about politics or government. That can make the most decent of us froth at the mouth and tip over backwards. The entertainment media have abandoned all pretense of allegiance to traditional American values, so there’s no balm to be had from them. Not that there’s much worth watching on the big or small screens, anyway.
If there’s refuge to be had, it lies in rigidly avoiding politics and political discourse, shunning government at every level, and cultivating an ethic of privacy in all things. Relating to other people as friends and neighbors only, and never making any slightest suggestion about larger organizations and involvements. With 88,000 governments all striving to insert themselves ever more deeply into our lives – yes, Gentle Reader, there really are that many in these United States – that’s a harder task than it’s ever been before – for anyone.
And as I have just realized that I’ve reached the edge of recommending that my Gentle Readers not come here for any more of this upsetting drivel, I believe it’s time to close.
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