Posted by
rycK on Thursday, October 08, 2009 4:33:09 PM
The Old Brown Lady of the New York Times [Old Gray Lady] Mumbles Dootifully about the Criminal
Good Time Charlie Rangel
We are
always privileged to read the New York Times, the Main Propaganda Engine and Slime Slinging Machine
of the far left. This nearly bankrupted ragzine is celebrated daily by the drug-addicted
and rabid abortion crowds and their Islamo-Fascist allies. This is always a treat for me as I can have
fun with my bolding and bright
colors. As to my blog format, my choices for the particular font colors and
boldness provide emphasis for the names and comments from the New York Times’– which I think should be
celebrated as the Walter Duranty Papers --and
are based loosely on the banner and
poster colors of
the Communist
and Bolshevik
politics of 1919 and fractured artistic interpretations thereof. Other selected
colors frequently represent my political
caricatures of the busy various little workers that haunt the lower catacombs
of that newspaper.
For
today’s exciting episode, Gail Collins, the journalist
of the day, is represented by a singular emphasis in shade. Lacking inspiring cognitive skills, a
praiseworthy countenance or even approaching the electric prose style of the
other old lady at the Times [Maureen Dowd], I have chosen to give her a
slightly different color, also based on her [rather plain] hairdo and not,
necessarily, in honor of her politics. Thusly, she can be thought of as The Old Brown
Lady of
the Old Gray
Lady. [Do they still use bowls for haircuts like that?] The NTY
staff is a menagerie of cast-off leftist hangers-on from the 60s and 70s some
of whom survived drug rehab and whose collective purpose in life is to stodgily
turn the political crank against capitalism.
A secondary mission is to blindly endorse any far left Marxist
for any office or judgeship anywhere this side of Jupiter. Such a philosophy
probably has its roots in the angst of reverse bytch-slapping or something
related to ceremonial flagellation: Verbero totus insquequo caput est mortuus.
In today’s
little piece Mx
Collins stimulates her keystrokes wearing the
literary mantle of The Mumbler following the authorized
agenda she has been given as she attempts to water down the nasty case of Good Time Charlie Rangel, the
Criminal and Tax Cheat, and tries to offer us alternate rosy paths to wander down to deflect some heat off
her homie’s ugly case.
The Launch!
“In my
capacity as a person who has held the House up to public ridicule on numerous
occasions, I would like to go on record as saying I do not need any 79-year-old
committee chairman to help me do it.”--
The Lion King in Winter
By Gail Collins Op-Ed Columnist
Published: October 7, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]
We must
presume that she is alert and Johnny on the sweet spot as she objectively
analyzes the various political entities who would ‘represent’ us in the lower
half of Congress. Omitted from her last quoted paragraph [by me] she includes
the name of Tom Delay. Spite? With such an introduction we might expect, if we
were not reading the NYT, to read about some advice on how to deal with her homie Charlie.
Let us see what she offers:
She Continues:
“The
Republicans are, however, completely right
about Rangel. Whenever a powerful committee chairman has so many
problems that you need a timeline to keep all the allegations straight, he is a liability. When those problems
revolve around things like failure to pay taxes, it is not a good plan to have him be in charge of tax
policy.” -- The Lion King in Winter By Gail Collins
This is a crude attempt at offering a
concession to the opposition—a favorite deception in propaganda pieces although
a little weak here. This is vague, on purpose, as Gail falls short of discussing or offering any new accusations and
discusses the ‘problem’ as if she were analyzing some chess ending problem from
some recent tournament. The political elastic word liability used here may simply mean that, again, the left need to find some way to ameliorate Charlie’s dance in the public view and shift the focus onto Sarah Palin or
other such maneuver.
“I say
this with great sadness because Rangel is my
congressman.” -- The Lion King in Winter By Gail Collins
What is
sad about justice and catching crooks?
“Despite
my great stake in keeping Rangel in his current
post of power, I’m not prepared to
argue [really??
Ed] that
you can have a chairman of the tax-writing committee who failed to declare
$75,000 in rental income on a Caribbean villa on his tax
returns. Or one who seems to think you can turn yourself into a resident of two
different cities if it gets you cheaper housing — and that the House only
requires its members to list their financial assets beginning with the letters
F through M.” -- The Lion King in Winter By Gail Collins
A list of alleged crimes outlined for us? Then
what? She wants to keep him in power so what do we do about criminal law and
tax evasion? The logic here is doubly
circular.
When you
come to a fork in the road take both paths with you.
“The
Democrats made no attempt whatsoever to defend Rangel when the Republican
resolution came up in the House. They just swiftly and sullenly referred it to
the ethics committee, which is currently embarked on Year Two of its Charles
Rangel investigation.” -- The
Lion King in Winter By Gail Collins
Here is the point of the moment! Can she
criticize the Democrats for sweeping this rotting mass under some political
banner? The Ethics committee will just sit on this matter.
Now, she
strays off into the wilderness.
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi
claims the current Congress is the most ethical and open one in history. And given what’s gone before, who knows? Pelosi actually has instituted some reforms, and
punished some bad apples, or at least nudged them out of critical posts.
But this is a test of
whether the Democrats will follow through when
it’s really, really hard.” --
The Lion King in Winter
By Gail Collins
Yes! And
what will this process be??
“There
are tons of people in Congress who have huge egos and impatience with the minor
irritations of life. If the Democrats made
Rangel step down, it would be a reminder that holding public office means you
have to be more conservative about drawing the line between proper and improper behavior than your humblest
constituent.” -- The Lion King in Winter By Gail Collins
Poof! And there the argument evaporates as a
whiff of marijuana smoke! Argument finished. Moral relativism as an element of
justice! She said nothing at all.
The non
ending:
“It
would be worth it even if my neighborhood never does get a bridge to nowhere.”
-- The Lion King in Winter By
Gail Collins
This is the second cheap shot against a fallen
Republican and an example of the rare use of the future past perfect
subjunctive tense. She mumbles. She can rain veiled spittle drops upon her political enemies, but
cannot bear to even suggest that Charlie’s case be opened up to
investigation. There is no call for him
to resign or even step down. By her definition, this liability is only a temporary political
liability and hopefully bigger and more sensational problems will distract the
state-run media and sick them on the political opposition.
Gail
Collins said exactly nothing in this pedestrian
article, but did toss out some inferences that, on balance, prove, or tend to prove,
that our tax cheat Charlie is no worse that
Republicans who could be mentioned. I wonder if she thought about Dan Rostenkowski, another crooked Demo
who spent some time in the jug. She could have appeared up to date by
mentioning Former Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu who was just sentenced to
24 years in the slammer. She was a good friend of Hillary Clinton? Did Nancy Pelosi comment on Hsu lately?
Charlie has what is known as Rostenkowski’s Disease: he is a criminal and a leftist
parasite. Among Charlie’s exalted colleagues and not discussed is Rep. Cold Cash Jefferson, another criminal that sat in our
government. He is gone now. He also
shares some of the Marxist attributes of another high congressional
chair Commie Jim Wright. Since Tipsy O’Neal, we have had a
string of drunks, Marxist stooges, criminals and social parasites as chairs of
the Ways and Means Committee. Apparently Gail forgot to mention them for balance.
Pelosi may be correct in some respects: People like Rangel have yet to sink to the slimy depths where serpents like Rosty and Jimmy Wright sank. He is a simple tax cheat—not a thief as far as we
know. Sometimes, we are forced to think in relative terms—especially if the
task is to mumble and say nothing about a major criminal in power in Congress.
Thanx, Gail, for a masterful and well-balanced piece. You are dedicated to
the cause. You said nothing of importance as was your charge. Dooty first! But, to be fair, and with full consideration
of Gail’s cognitive station in the journalistic world, she did her very best
and we can thank her for a fine performance.
rycK
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