5/16/08

Obamagasm!

Or, the media's strange infatuation with audaciously vacuous hope of the type that only seems to be emergent from the confluence of free-love 60's socialism and third world lechery. Says the Times of London:
But it's fairly clear now that, with the near-certain nomination by the Democrats of Barack Obama everything is in place for the media to indulge in one of the greatest, orgiastic media fiestas of hero-worship since Elvis Presley.

You will not see a finer example of the genre than the cover story of this week's Newsweek, which was entitled “The O Team”. This rhapsodic inside account of Senator Obama's campaign reads a little like a cross between Father Alban Butler's Life of St Francis and the sort of authorised biography of Kim Jong Il you can pick up in any good bookshop in Pyongyang.

Continue a worthy read here.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I actually picked up that issue of Newsweek, hoping to learn a little bit about the mechanics of a presidential campaign.

Instead, I felt like I was reading the gay version of Penthouse Forum as the esteemed Evan Thomas treated Obama to the love that dare not speak its name.