The Monkey, The Organ Grinder, & the Swift Boating of Van Jones

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-wellington-ennis/the-monkey-the-organ-grin_b_281181.html


It's kind of like the organ grinder and the monkey. The guy with the music box gets the monkey to dance and act out for the people. And when huge corporations, media interests, and high-priced consultants unleash desperate distortions on public policy, they get a robust jig and a squeal from right wing reactionaries, hot heads, bigots, and people who don't know enough to know they don't know enough.

The problem is, the Media, and apparently some in the Obama Administration, listen to the monkey.

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Where the signs typically say, "Do Not Toss Items to the Monkey," this is where to start. Feed the monkey peanuts, cotton candy, popcorn to gobble down. Throw it gossip, confusing riddles, internal strife, distraction. Give them more chew toys to tire themselves out with. Wave shiny things in front of their wide, eager eyes. Delude them with relevancy and mock them as the alienated, small-minded, insecure, intolerant sociopaths that they are. We need rope, lots of it, to let them hang themselves in their xenophobic obsessions.

Because what won't deter them is shame. There is no shame to these hacks like Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, John Boehner, Tom DeLay, and their cadre. Beyond cultural bias, this is an automatic opposition to anything that could be successful. Seeking to earn the approval or inclusion of this deluded minority is ruinous. It offers easy exploitation from predatory industries that have long proven their disregard for American citizens in the interest of profits.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. 'swift boating'... haven't heard that term for a long time