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Went through all comments on today's Sunday Morning Talk thread, feeling truly blessed that Alas and FR members report, so I don't have to watch, the political hacks and media whores.
Gergen hates W because Gergen's raison d'etre is his status as the ultimate "Insider," a status he peddled for money and tv face time, and W has shut him out.
Michael Kelly, in his essay, "Master of the Game," wrote of Gergen, "Every species produces its perfect flower and every culture its perfect moment. In the late Spring of 1993, the perfect flower of the Insider species and the perfect moment of the image culture met in the presidential[Clinton] appointment of David R. Gergen, Washington's circular man.
The career of David Gergen represents the triumph of image. The character of David Gergen represents the apeothis of the Insider.
The two are rolled up in him together, in a shining, seamless roundness whose mirrored surface reveals nothing but the political scene rolling by. In himself Gergen has conflated all the old distinctions.
Over the course of twenty-two years, he has traveled from White House to White House, from government to journalism to punditry....From the Democratic camp to the Republican to the Independent to the Democratic...
So perfectly is he of his time and place and class that he is himself a part of the tribal language. To be Gergenized is to be spun by the velveteen hum of this soothing man's smoothing voice into a state of such vertigo that the sense of what is real disappears into a blur. Nothing is more Gergenized than Gergen himself. The blur is the man. He is his own magic movie, forever revising the reality of himself."
Essay taken from "Things Worth Fighting For," a collection of Kelly's writings published after his death in the early days of the Iraq invasion, in which he participated as an embedded reporter.
Snugs, if you want a straightforward picture of politics and culture in the US, you couldn't go wrong with this book.
Glad to know that your father is up and enjoying the sports.
Peach, how are you enjoying Christopher Hitchens" "Love, Poverty, and War?"
Snugs, one thing the UK exports that is priceless, is the genius of your writers like Hitchens and Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels.)
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