Trump is Lonesome Rhodes [9/14/15]

The Washington Times ^ | 9/14/15 | Cal Thomas

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Rarely and perhaps not in modern times has a presidential campaign more resembled the classic 1957 film, "A Face in the Crowd." Written by Budd Schulberg and starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal and Walter Matthau, the storyline follows an Arkansas hayseed named Larry "Lonesome" Rhodes (Griffith), whom Marcia Jeffries (Neal) discovers in a county jail.

Jeffries has a local radio show on which she interviews interesting characters. She finds Rhodes irresistible and puts him on the air. Rhodes becomes a sensation, eventually climbing the ladder to his own network TV show and then, as politicians approach him for endorsements, a self-described kingmaker...

[stormer]

Lol - I am, but I thought it would be easier for you to look it up than me telling the whole story. He’s a character from the Thurber short story, “The Greatest Man in the World”.

[Defiant]

I did look it up, and it is ok. I was worried that it was a character I should know as a reasonably educated person, but it turns out it was obscure enough that I don’t feel too bad. I read what the story was about, it sounds interesting and I may read it one of these days.

[stormer]

It’s only a half-dozen pages. “The United States of America had been...blindly constructing the petard which, sooner or later, it must be hoist.”