“My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said, ‘Okay. You’re ugly, too.” Rodney Dangerfield
August 28, 2024, And Every Wednesday*
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
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When North Korean President Kim Jong Un’s father died, the people were ordered to love him and cry. Or else.
Now the same thing’s happening to Americans. We’re being told what to think. And what to do.
“Doug Emhoff is a progressive sex symbol!” we’re told. “Believe it!” they say. “He’s “a hunk.” The “modern female fantasy.”
That’s the kind of stuff Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell is trying to sell.
This swill is harder to swallow than the North Korean people being forced to cry bitter tears for Kim Jung Il.
It’s hard to swallow because this is America, and in America, citizens aren’t told what to think.
Until Kamala. Or maybe it was Obama.
Predictably the media lemmings lined up with the Party line.
Tim Walz and Emhoff “embrace a more modern version of masculinity that men should aspire to,” we’re told.
ESPN analyst Mina Kimes praised Walz’s “different kind of masculinity.”
And CNN anchor Dana Bash explained it as “the Democrats are trying to appeal to men who might not be as masculine as their Republican counterparts.”
Hardly something to boast about.
Which in and of itself, is intensely disturbing.
But the brainwashing doesn’t end there.
Now it’s decided that any adverse opinions about Emhoff’s tatted-up daughter Ella are considered “unapologetic misogyny, and “toxic masculinity.”
Amanda Marcotte, senior politics writer (!) for Salon, wrote that the Trump team is seeking to “win over the worst men in the nation by appealing directly to their controlling misogynist desires.”
Because they refuse to say Ella Emhoff “is cute.”
Disturbing as it is if you’ve ever seen Tim, Doug or Ella, what is more upsetting is the “reimaging” of Kamala Harris.
Almost as bad as her “reimaging” the police.
Everybody's seen a show about lawyers, whether it’s Law and Order or Boston Legal, and the lawyers are always gifted speakers, able to think on their feet.
Can you actually imagine Kamala Harris arguing a case, as a prosecutor, in a courtroom?
Until recently, Harris has been considered to be, how shall I say this? Ignorant. A political albatross. Incapable of speaking in complete sentences.
From yellow school buses, and her romance with Venn diagrams, to her uncontrollable laughter, now unburdened from what has been, Kamala has been reframed as an intelligent presidential candidate.
California Gov. Newsom wasn’t happy about how Kamala got the Democrat bid for the job.
“We went through a very open process, a very inclusive process. It was bottom-up, I don’t know if you know that. That’s what I’ve been told to say,” Newsom said with a humorless chuckle.
So as Congress investigates Walz’s connection to China and asks questions about who paid for his 30 trips there.
And as the public mulls over First Gentleman Doug’s Schwarzenegger-like nanny background, Kamala has decided she will do an interview.
But she won’t be flying solo. Walz will be at her side.
The interview will be on Democrat-friendly CNN.
The Trump/Harris debate will be on ABC. That’s the network headed up by Dana Walden, whom The New York Times describes as one of Kamala’s “extraordinary friends.”
Aides have said Kamala is nervous when having to speak extemporaneously.
Of course, that is part of the job of being president. So just imagine how she’s going to feel when she has to speak to Chinese president Xi.
Without a teleprompter.
Hold the line, America.
Stay strong, Patriots.