Not Nazis, just elite Chicago thugs
There's that word elite again, this time being used by William Murchison of DMN to describe Obama and his administration.
This isn't Hitler stuff to tell the truth. It puts one more in mind of an elite class of Chicagoans: the kind once widely known for putting the squeeze on merchants who had chosen a different supplier and now needed a little persuasion -- so's the guys could finally see the light, right? Labor unions, too, back in their heyday, were good at a little friendly coercion, slyly demonstrating to bosses the virtues of "cooperation."
The whole thing is well-written; I especially appreciated his sarcasm about "points of view" in the media. As if only FOX news had one.
Point of order: Wm. Murchison is no longer published by the Dallas Morning News, at least no more often than once a year or so in some sort of emeritus thing.
ReplyDeleteRather, we get the Rod-Ster using up all the oxygen whining about how the sound was bad in his cheap seats at U2 (we got a preview blurb from that column one day, and then the whole enchilada a couple days later) (sorry for all the pop-up ads -- DMN is going under) (and sorry for the chain of parentheticals).
BTW, the DMN announced a new business model last week. They're going to charge more for the dead-tree editions, but will be improving the quality to justify it. I'm guessing their idea on what will improve quality will differ from mine (e.g., running Murchison columns rather than you-know-who's).
P.S. The U2 show was great. The new Cowboys Stadium is great. Better yet, the stadium is the antithesis to the Manifesto (i.e., Big, Global, New, Abstract, Un-Restrained, and anything-but-Humble).