By David Glenn Cox
Some days she must feel just jinxed. First, Ronna McDaniel gets pushed out at her RNC job after Trump installed his daughter-in-law to be the gatekeeper at the Party. Making sure the King feeds first and longest on the carcass. Taking his Kingly share and leaving little behind for the pride. So, pack your bags and hit the bricks and file for your unemployment Ronna.
Then the heavens opened up and there came a lucrative offer from NBC. I bet Ronna was already on the phone excitedly telling her friends and relatives of her good fortune…when. When the call waiting went off, and Ronna said excitedly something like “I’ve got to let you go, it’s my NEW Boss!” But instead, it was her ex-boss. The offer had been rescinded after the backlash of NBC revenue generators. You have to keep the stars happy; you know.
It’s all part of that eternal desire to try something (anything) to potentially grow the audience. By hiring McDaniel, the network hoped to attract some Republican viewers. It’s all a part of that Fair & Balanced idea you’ve heard so much about. If you hire a scholar, then you have to hire an idiot to balance it out. If you hire a saint well, then need to hire a serial killer to balance things out.
The visceral reaction to radioactive Ronna being hired was her connection to Donald Trump. The two were once quite close during Trump’s attempted coup. Too soon? A bridge too far? You’re sitting at your desk racking your brain. “How can I grow the audience? Where can I find NEW eyes to watch our commercials? This is the news business. A business that must generate revenue or be replaced.
Edward R. Murrow and William L. Shirer are dead and glad of it. This is 21st Century media slurry, the same people who hired Al Sharpton as a resident “News” expert commentator hired Ronna McDaniel and for the same reason. For the audience she might bring to the table with her name recognition. The same way Michael Steele is all over the media after holding the same job as radioactive Ronna.
Ted Baxter and Kent Brockman are the stereotypical television news anchors. Hunter Thompson once described famous journalists passing a bottle of whiskey around on the press bus at eleven o’clock in the morning. I wouldn’t dare repeat what Thompson had to say about “mainstream” journalists and journalism in general. But basically, these were people too lazy, too stupid or too shiftless to find a job doing anything else without being arrested.
But these days, just Journalism skills just aren’t enough. You needed to work for somebody important first. Nichole Wallace was a trash slinger for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. But I was so much older then, I’m much younger than that now. Lawrence O’Donnell worked for Senator Moynihan. They crafted that message of whatever might be required and sold it to the American public with a straight face.
Big giant North Vietnamese patrol boats were firing torpedoes at us or the certainty of Saddam’s WMDs.
Until some media talent scout noticed them and asked, “Would you like to come tell stories for us? You could lead a panel show with other talking heads giving their opinions on tightly scripted issues. As predictable as buttercups in Spring, and you could lead them. Just like Joe Scarborough, you give your opinion and then they go around the table taking turns agreeing with you.”
Bibles! Get your fresh Bibles! Donald Trump has joined forces with a dried-up country singer and one hit wonder Lee Greenwood to offer to you for an amazingly everyday low, low price. The “I’m proud to be an American” Donald Trump Bible. It’s just like the Bibles found in the better hotel rooms across America. It’s not really the “Good News,” if it doesn’t have Donald Trump’s official seal of approval! For Jesus only said it; before Donald Trump approved it.
“Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred” – Bob Dylan
You’ve eaten his steaks and flown on his airline. You graduated from his university majoring in ballpoint pen repair with a minor in French analog computer design. You proudly wear your new gold lame sneakers with the American flags on the sides. What coffee table in any American trailer park would be complete without a new bible in a genuine simulated leatherette cover issued by two of America’s favorite has-beens. Coming soon! Paris Hilton’s Koran!
Show and amaze your friends and neighbors! Have I ever read it? No, but I own a copy. And for only $59.99 plus S&H it’s a real steal! I’m mean, it’s a real blessing. Order two! You can never be too careful with your eternity. From Adam to Zacharia it’s all there and complete and approved by Donald Trump!
Trump selling bibles is like OJ selling cutlery or Rudy Giuliani promoting sobriety. If I had the money to waste, I would buy a Trump Bible. Just to make sure Trump hasn’t used his Sharpie again to do some major editing and for the antique value. Instead, I’ll wait until I see one at a yard sale and pick it up for a dollar.
I was at an auction years ago. The auctioneer held up a large family type Bible and said, “Folks we have here a Bible for sale. If you’d like to purchase it, you can make an offer up at the desk. Because I’m not going to auction off a Holy Bible, as that would be completely inappropriate.
“Dirty little secrets, dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
Love to cut you down to size, we love dirty laundry
We can do the innuendo, we can dance and sing
When it’s said and done, we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry” – Don Henley
“All media is propaganda” – George Orwell
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