Oswald
A lying narcissist with a big tie. But any resemblance to a real person is purely coincidental.
Reality TV and the White House
“Omarosa was fired three times on The Apprentice, and this is the fourth time we let her go.” “We”? The blurred line between reality TV and the White House could not be clearer.
“An image of the audience”
Neil Postman on the politician as an image of the audience.
Sean Spicer at the Emmys
Ugh.
Eyes on the plane
Andrew Sullivan’s recent lament about the failure of “elites” to protect democracy from the likes of Donald Trump misses the point that Trump’s candidacy is itself the product of an elite — not a political elite but a media elite, one that has kept Trump (and even his parked plane) front and center for months now.
Why save PBS?
A poster from PBS.