The Magical Mystery Tour (Takes A Wrong Turn)

"Look in the mirror right now—all of you children of the ’60s, and your children, too. The veterans of peace and love and Kent State losses and civil rights victories and your children who’ve heard the romanticized tales of what it was like.

Look in the mirror, because what you’ll see is a reverse image. A reverse image that you can’t stand. This summer, the summer of 2010, you’ll hear the drumming , but it’s the other side that’s inspired. There is no more Uncle Walter to declare Vietnam a lost cause. No Daniel Ellsburg with his Pentagon Papers. No more Ben Bradlee with his Watergate stories. Their legacies have shriveled like your retirement savings and the peace tattoo on your wrinkled skin.

The reverse image that you can’t stand is this: thousands of citizen fact-checkers on the Internet correcting the Dan Rathers of your old world. Countless bloggers to ferret out the lies of Mike Nifong, and free the innocent from politically correct charges.

A new TV news network called Fox, that nightly surpasses the ratings of your CNN, Headline News, MSNBC and CNBC combined. You’re trying desperately to swat a thousand bees, to plug your fingers in a thousand leaks, but the hive is disturbed and the dam has burst."

-- Anchorman, finally admitting what so many NewAgers refuse to - the hippies, at this moment of their greatest triumph, most certainly did "get fooled again" (by a black man!) - and now they're also feeling like it, over at The Daily Caller.



Hat Tip: Althouse

"Uncle Walter"? I Thought Bob's Your Uncle!!!

Damn it, I was going to write a piece on the death of Walter Cronkite (He is still dead, isn't he?) but, while researching information on him, I discovered his most egregious crime was actually committed on my seventh birthday - February 27th, 1968 - and became so overcome by grief I couldn't go on. I mean, I had just turned seven years old when this asshole decided America was worth trashing during a war - just as, years later, liberals tried, again, to prematurely (and wrongly) claim President Bush would lose the Iraq War.

What is it with liberals and losing? Is stubbornly insisting on failure in their blood? Is it a mental disorder? Is it something contagious?

Whatever it is, I don't want it.

Anyway, as I said, I couldn't go on, so I'll leave you with the next best thing to my own "brilliant" analysis - Doctor Zero's connect-the-dots assessment on Hot Air:

"Walter Cronkite and the National Will"

It's basically what I would've said, too - but without all the naughty bits - and I know how much you guys loooove all the naughty bits.

Sorry.

Only Body Thetans Can Make You Credible

"Not exactly Walter Cronkite…"

-- Greta Van Susteren - who is a Scientologist - responding to Anderson Cooper's criticisms, on FOX News.

Funny, but I don't remember Greta acting like a journalist and breaking any stories about Scientology's many lies, kidnappings, and harassment of current and former followers. O.K., it's not-so-funny.