Insightful Media, Helping With Our Understanding

Yahoo US homepage, June 25:

“Counterpart?” How morally vacuous and ignorant. For no US president is a “counterpart” to the likes of that.

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Later, Wolf Blitzer on CNN actually gave this credence:

Iranian Ambassador to Mexico: CIA May have Killed Neda

And why do we suspect, had they been around in early September 1939, that CNN would have dutifully passed along the Berlin official line that Poland had attacked Germany on the night of August 31, and Germany was now merely counterattacking?

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Separately, yours truly has also stumbled across a few small asides in various places on the passing of 1970s-1980s pop star, and genius, Michael Jackson.  That between President Obama’s current live TV appearance and his last live TV appearance.  And that latest appearance always comes long after the previous one . . . increasingly seemingly all of 2 or 3 hours previously.

In the insignificant media coverage of Mr Jackson, we are hearing a great deal about his having “lost his childhood.” At that assertion, yours truly must admit it is a tremendous surprise to learn he had labored in a coal mine.  That being so, it would seem no children under age 17 should be allowed on stage.  No?

Also he is being much compared in those afterthought reports to Lady Diana and Elvis.  Yet it would seem another, and perhaps more apt one, would be with Howard Hughes.  Especially given the two decades of incredible weirdness desire for privacy and the fact of Jackson’s having been, in the words earlier this morning of Fox News’s astute Steve Doocy, a “real shrewd businessman.”

Except of course for the continued contrived desire to maintain a public persona.  And also that that same FNC reports Jackson managed to die $400 million in debt.  Yet actually, if one thinks on it for all of two seconds, that latter is, indeed, quite an accomplishment for a genius and a “real shrewd businessman.”

[Posted 8:55 AM, NY time.]