Humpty Daddy

New York Post | 11-16-01 | Mia T

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Humpty Daddy

by Mia T

 

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful

tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less."

 

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean

so many different things."

 

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master that's all."

--Through the Looking-Glass

 

"Punctuating everything were thoughts of Humpty Dumpty. 'Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall' . . . It just seemed as though the world were falling down, like Humpty Dumpty."

--Chelsea Clinton's claimed contemporaneous comtemplation of the collapsing Twin Towers, Talk Magazine

 

 

Strictly speaking, any bill-clinton/Humpty-Dumpty conceit would be more synonym than metaphor. Or as Christopher Hitchen once put it, the clinton years were "Through the Looking-Glass for real."

It is entirely conceivable then, that on the morning of 9-11, thoughts of Humpty-Daddy would race through chelsea clinton's head, a head -- if we are to believe the mother -- in imminent danger of burial by Twin Towers debris. After eight years of the parents, no one still sentient, and certainly not the daughter, would miss this latest detritus of clinton fecklessness and depravity.

What is not believable--and what not only calls into question the truth of the entire statement but reveals chelsea clinton's likely descent from abused child to abuser in her own right -- is chelsea's claim that while she was dodging debris-- virtually running for her life if we are to believe the mother--she had the presence of mind to simultaneously trash Bush and recycle clinton trash, that is to say, to claim that while she watched the towers collapse she "was worried that with the [Bush] tax cut, we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C., and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died...Once we stopped running . . . [I] thanked God my mother was a senator representing New York."

Standard issue, balkanizing, insulting clinton claptrap. Economic and psychological non sequiturs, to be sure, and political logic of the arrogant, dimwitted clintonian sort facilitated by equally dimwitted, arrogant media.

In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."

The dysfunctional Humpty Dummies had a great fall, indeed. It was inevitable...

 

 

  

Rumor has it William Jefferson Clinton himself is to recite Honest Abe's lines in this New Year's Eve pageant. Whoever writes these scripts has a natural talent for irony. For some irrepressible reason, one cannot help but think of that costume party in "The Manchurian Candidate,'' complete with Red Queen and Abe Lincoln in stovepipe hat and fake beard.

Hillary Clinton says it's a great opportunity to unite the nation. (The way she's united New York?) But the Clintons are never so polarizing as when they are intent on uniting us. How can that be? Maybe it's their perfectly fabricated authenticity. The Nineties have had much the same effect, stirring the same vague dissatisfactions -- and sparking sudden outbursts of temper. What was it that poor, embarrassed David Brinkley, thinking his mike was off, said after the president's victory speech in '96: "We all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more goddam nonsense.''

Still not finished, Mr. Brinkley added that this president "has not a creative bone in his body. Therefore, he's a bore, and will always be a bore.'' Oh, dear. The commentator's unintentionally public thoughts were all the more embarrassing for being so widely shared by any Americans still sentient four years into the Age of Clinton. But it's one thing to notice such things, quite another to say them out loud. Why belabor the obvious?

Hey, what a party! New Year's at the White House

 

Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy

by Mia T

John Podhoretz recently asked, "Whence comes hillary clinton's reputation for brilliance?" For the answer, he intuitively, rather brilliantly in fact, looked to her anatomy and noted,"This isn't the first time she's shot herself in the foot."

The above anatomical analysis supports the Podhoretz thesis. Notwithstanding The Pod's erroneous conclusions concerning hillary clinton's heart and nerve, he basically has it right. Anatomy is destiny...

Ian Hunter recently observed that our leaders are shrinking. "From a Churchill (or, for that matter, a Margaret Thatcher) to a Tony Blair; from Eisenhower to Clinton; from Diefenbaker to Joe Clark; from Trudeau to Chretien -- we seem destined to be governed by pygmies."

The pols understand their anatomical limitations well; they attempt to mitigate them with veneer. And so we suffer mindless alpha-beta-beelzebubba grotesquerie. . .

 

and rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy.

With all the media genuflecting before the press-conference podium of bill clinton, it bears remarking yet again that the clinton intellect (an oxymoron even more jarring than AlGoreRhythm and meant to encompass the cognitive ability of both clintons) is remarkable only for its utter ordinariness, its lack of creative spark, its lack of analytic precision, its lack of depth.

The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.

Politicos and reporters are not rocket scientists . . .

Professions tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects (especially these days) do not generally gravitate towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre, power-obsessed types with poor self-images do.

Thus, clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form with substance, smoothness with coherence, data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic degeneracy with creativity.

Jimmy Breslin agrees. In Hillary Is the 'Me-First' Lady, Breslin laments:

"At the end of all these years and years that are being celebrated this week, the national press of America consists of people with dried minds and weak backbones and the pack of them can't utter a new phrase for the language or show the least bit of anger at a business or profession or trade or whatever this business is that is dying of mediocrity."

 

Listen carefully to the clintons. You will hear a shallow parody of the class president. Not only do they say nothing; they say nothing with superfluous ineloquence. Their speeches are sophomoric, shopworn, shallow, specious. Platitudinous pandering piled atop p.c. cliché

In seven years, they have, collectively, uttered not one memorable word save, "It was a vast right-wing conspiracy," "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,"and, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."

Even the clintons' attempts at alliteration fall flat. Compare Agnew's (Safire's) "nattering nabobs of negativism" with clinton's "preachers of pessimism," an impotent, one-dimensional, plagiaristic echo (its apt self-descriptiveness notwithstanding).

Before they destroy their backs along with their reputations, media gentry genuflecting at the altar of the clinton brain should consider Edith Efron's, Can the President Think?

A wasted brain is a terrible thing.

 

 

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COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN: HAS CHELSEA GONE BYE-BYE? November 12, 2001 -- So Chelsea Clinton is concerned that giving Americans a tax cut would leave the federal government without the funds needed to repair New York and D.C. and to assist the families of the victims ("Chelsea's 9/11 Meltdown," Nov. 9) If Chelsea had to be concerned about paying rent or servicing a mortgage - as most overtaxed working families are - instead of how many secret service agents were protecting her that day, maybe she wouldn't find a tax cut so unnecessary, after all. Gregg Nelson Manhattan   The former First Daughter has apparently learned well from Bubba, as her statement reeks of the "I feel your pain" mentality. As one who was quite a bit nearer to the towers than was Chelsea, I do not honestly recall having feared for my life. I know that if I had though, the last thing on my mind would be the lives of total strangers or the Bush tax cuts. Chelsea's statements are thus about as plausible as "I never inhaled" and "I did not have sex with that woman." Adam Ferentz Flushing   Is making up stories just part of the Clinton family legacy? Gerry Dorman Lindenhurst   What Chelsea should have been obsessing over is the fact that her father did nothing after the first attack on the World Trade Center. Perhaps Humpty Dumpty came to her mind because she was subconsciously picturing her father. New Yorkers have strength of character and tell it like it is. Chelsea is no New Yorker, rather, she's a Clinton, the complete opposite. Patty Ferman Stamford, Conn.   Instead of worrying about how President Bush's tax cut would make it impossible to rebuild New York, perhaps Chelsea should think about how her father's gross dereliction of his duties allowed it to be blown up in the first place. Scott Knudsen Manhattan   How is it that Chelsea Clinton is concerned that the Bush tax cut will alter our ability to pay for the damages caused by the Sept. 11 disaster? Shouldn't a graduate student at Oxford realize that the United States will issue additional debt and produce whatever money we need, or is she too busy reciting her parents' thoughts and ideas? Frank Roughan East Brunswick, N.J.

[Mia T]

 

Bill Clinton may not be the worst president America has had, but surely he is the worst person to be president.

---GEORGE WILL, Sleaze, the sequel

Surely 9-11 removes all doubt for Will regarding the former assessment and compulsive clinton CYA-ing following 9-11 does nothing to dispel the latter.]

 

11-07-01

bill clinton prefers biting lips to beating with sticks

At the end of his speech, Mr. Clinton -- who was impeached for lying under oath about a sexual relationship with a 21-year-old White House intern -- said the entire issue revolves around "the nature of truth."

"This battle fundamentally is about what you think about the nature of truth," he said, noting that God has imposed on us the inability to ever know "the whole truth."

He also championed women's rights in Afghanistan, saying the reason "you see all those sanctimonious guys beating those women with sticks" is because the country's rulers demand strict adherence to the rules.

Clinton calls terror a U.S. debt to past

 

[Prodigal Daughter]

As usual, WOW! She's done it again!!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the flag, PD. Nice to see you!

[William Wallace]

Thanks for the heads-up, PD.

Another Mia T classic!

[AmeriBrit]

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