Saturday, March 3, 2018
Liberal media is giving us a remake of “The Night of the Living Dead.”
We’re currently in the scene where the President and his family are
trapped in the house with the zombies breaking in at the windows, looking for
weaknesses in order to get at the real people inside.
But these are passive aggressive media zombies, and the general public
is supposed to feel sorry for the zombies.
In fact, I do feel ashamed of myself for comparing media to zombies. In
these days of political correctness, we’re not supposed to insult zombies like
that.
Watching media work is like watching maggots swarming over some poor
fool’s festering wound. We are assured that the maggots serve some noble purpose,
but it makes us retch to watch them work.
Like the zombies in the old-fashioned movies – when zombies were still
considered bad guys – media continues to probe for weaknesses hoping to provoke
the president into an overreaction they can exploit.
This, of course, is a sign of desperation as we in media seek out every
petty thing we can in order to cause the president and his family pain.
As I said, this is a noble profession, even one that Mark Twain might
admire, we maggots turning eventually into disease-ridden flies that – when we
finish our job – get to swarm on our dead victim’s eyes.
To strike back at media is as pointless as swathing at flies, too. We
just land some place else to deposit more larva and start the maggot cycle all
over again, creating some new wound of some new victim we can infest.
Media, of course, likes playing the part of victim, those noble settlers
in a wagon train making its way to settle the Great American West.
After we have butchered the buffalo and humiliated the Native Americans,
we circle the wagons to defend good and bad settlers against the inevitable
back lash against our noble profession.
When someone like Trump screams “fake news” we in media try to convince
ourselves that we are the innocent victims inside the house the zombies are
attaching, and Trump and his political kind are the zombies.
This is what I mean by passive aggressive.
No matter how vicious media becomes, how unethical are reporters act,
no matter how mean our motives are, we as people and our profession are the
real victims, not the people we attack.
And so we see ourselves inside the house, looking through the broken
windows at the hoards of savage faces outside, trying to convince the American public
that that those brainless, unethical maggots are someone else other than us.
It is a weak argument at best, not quite fake news, but close.