I couldn’t help but think that Canadian and American media are doing, now, to Barack Obama and Bill Clinton and other liberals, what they succeeded in doing with Edward Kennedy and Michael Jackson —boosting them to “fairly land”, iconic status on a fallacious premise. Promulgating a cult of personality, rather than questioning and reporting honestly on events as they actually occur, whether it serves the interests of their own liberal-leftist world views or not. Shielding them from their own failures or misdeeds and in fact even promoting their personalities during their lives, notwithstanding their failures, lies, or misdeeds.
Andrew Breitbart calls the lives of Kennedy and Jackson fairy tales, and he’s right. But I also call this a cautionary tale. Don’t let the liberal media head-fake you into sycophantic stupidity. Once you rise above their story-telling and fables and view things objectively, you understand the stories in the mainstream media as a little more than yet another terrible CBC comedy; or a bittersweet comedy or at times, alas, just an epic tragedy, or a travesty of history.
SPOILER ALERT: This snippet contains the opening and closing paragraphs of Breitbart’s excellent column. I suggest you just read the whole column (2 minutes) rather than this snippet.
BREITBART: End to two grim fairy tales
With the deaths of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and Michael Jackson, the summer of ‘09 marked the merciful ends to Camelot and Neverland, iconic American fairy tales whose story lines should have come to merciful ends long ago when their charismatic protagonists took dark and irredeemable turns.
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The supporters of Mr. Kennedy, and to a lesser degree Mr. Jackson, elevate and promote “social justice” and “economic justice” as the highest human goals. Upon the deaths of Mr. Jackson and Mr. Kennedy, the media continue to erase their ugly backgrounds hoping their eternal celebrity can serve these collective ideals.
But the rubes – those of us skeptical of moral relativism, media manipulation and the cult of celebrity – prefer “justice justice.”
Only when the “elite” among us begin to see things like us – and not in the unrealistic fairy tales crafted by our liberal betters – will Americans begin to live happily ever after.
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