Paul McCartneydid a song declaring Trump "mad" and the media - including the conservative media - makes sure the world knows and hears it. But, make a song about the Democrats - and even promote it to conservative outlets - and they'll make sure A) it will never see the light of day, and B) the artist is ignored, or destroyed, if they haven't conformed to their ideological image of conservatism.
Just a warning to any black artists considering a switch: The Right hates you, and will make life as miserable as any Democrats - unless you suck their dicks, too.
Fine - a shot of the Bush-mocking/Maharishi-defending Paul McCartney, coupled with that loopy Alice In Wonderland spend-to-keep-from-going-broke "logic", are almost enough to warrant it - but is there anything, really, in this National Republican Senatorial Committee ad to justify ending it with Obama riding a unicorn over a rainbow? And if not, then why put it in there? This is what I find so frustrating about, pretty much, everything:
If even some of this ad had dealt with Oprah's influence, the talk of the Obama cult, his supporter's weird declarations, his NewAge health initiatives, the gay unicorn porn, and, of course, the connection between NewAge spirituality and Nazi fascism ("ramming ObamaCare down our throats!") the conclusion to this ad would've made total sense. As it stands now, it's just a cheap shot anchored by nothing, unless there's a NewAge belief/basketball bracket connection I'm missing. Here's my take - and it backs up my accusation those in charge on the Right can't fight - or, at least, get their metaphors and symbols right:
This could've been a devastatingly effective ad, especially if introduced at a later date in the campaign, but instead it plays like first year college-level snark, which may make a few people laugh, but doesn't do anyone else much good.
If you're living within the old paradigm, then you're missing it: I'm part of the new paradigm. Maybe even it's leader: educated atheist minority artists, probably conservative, who could give a shit about your obsession with racism - we care about other things.
"Today politics appears a shrivelled and flaccid affair,...there are no political principles at stake, no political leaders or parties worthy of the name. All is small and narrow and petty."
O.K. - here we go:
I'm losing interest in the Instapundit for being so out-of-step. ("Woman Says Citibank Fired Her Because She Was Too Hot." Who cares?) Reynolds once dissed Hip-Hop on his blog and that's just how I see him: one of those non-racist people who still said it's not music as it took over the world anyway.
I know he doesn't link to me, because he doesn't like my style, but fuck him - I won't kiss his ass: he's a gatekeeper, not anybody's judge. What he does with his power is unfair and wrong; his "community" myopic. I'm not spreading look-at-it-this-way-or-that opinion - I'm right as Rush - and, until he recognizes it, he's what we in South Central, Los Angeles, call an educated fool.
End sermon.
Actually, no, here's an example of the very-real phenomena (NewAge) Reynolds isn't addressing - that drives a lot of our world and makes the news daily - within our politics, and elsewhere:
"Move over Chris Matthews, here comes Sir Paul McCartney.
Matthews has been unceremoniously knocked off the Fawning Obama Perch by a more high profile fawn.
Before 'The Won' lets the message go to his Messianic head, McCartney has followed one cult or another his entire life.
First came the Beatles’ adulation of the late Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the 'Giggling Guru', so named for his high-pitched laughter during television interviews.
About the levitating guru of Transcendental Meditation fame, McCartney once said: 'We made a mistake. We thought there was more to him than there was. He’s human. We thought at first that he wasn’t.'
The same could be said about Guru Obama.
In later years, McCartney, like his friend Prince Charles, went organic and vegetarian and was once appalled when a buckshot-touting farmer in response to being reminded who McCartney was, blurted out: 'I don’t give a damn who you are, get off my land.'"
And there it is: baby boomer cultism, as the gateway to our society's obsessions with environmentalism, organics, vegetarianism, multiculturalism (AKA "race") meditation, yoga, and a whole lot more. Most importantly, our politics.
From Al Qaeda and Hamas to various figures in this Vanity Fair piece - including people like Rahm Emanuel:
"After an astrologer told Sally that Quinn would benefit from yoga, she had lunch with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who recommended her own teacher, Pary, whose students included David Gregory and Rahm Emanuel."
That's right:
An astrologer told the Washington Post's Sally Quinn about yoga, who talked it over with The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, and she recommended television's David Gregory and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's "teacher".
All these "movers and shakers" (who move and shake our lives with their, regularly idiotic and simply wrong-headed, take on things) all involved in one form or another of cultism. And not a word from the Instapundit on what kind of effect that has on our information stream.
Cultism is the unspoken lubricant that's greasing our society's fucked-up workings. And, until Reynolds starts addressing cultism, in American society and the Western World, his blog reads clueless.
From a review of Sex and the City2 - tell me this ain't weird, and the result of cultism:
"Samantha's vagina is doing fine. She rubs yams on it, okay? She takes 48 vagina vitamins a day."
Where'd she learn that from? Who told her that was smart? Why is it in a feminist movie? Who's directing our thinking out there? Especially if astrologers and yogis are instructing the likes of Sally Quinn, Maureen Dowd, David Gregory and Rahm Emanuel?
Look at this:
"Most of the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You can not change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.
The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years,...Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards,...exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization."
Professor Reynolds, seriously, in light of the Vanity Fair quote, isn't cultism a better explanation for the weirdness that's happening, than what you're guessing at, daily?
With Oprah Winfrey - purveyor of The Secret and wackjob "spiritual" online Eckhart Tolle seminars - choosing our president. Are you, or are you not, missing a huge cultural/social/political story?
Somebody obviously doesn't know George W. Bush is married to Laura Bush - a fucking librarian. What a moron. And how dare he?
This one-legged grifter-marrying vegetarian, who is very much responsible for the promotion of the dual frauds of transcendental meditation and the Maharisi Mahesh Yogi in the United States, finally decided to open his yap on the subject of our politics - even speaking as though he's an American himself - and caused me to vomit in my own mouth (as I often do when faced with his solo catalogue) for the last time:
We are done, son.
You might even want to consider going into hiding for a while, asshole, because you just seriously fucked up your legacy:
"Beliefs such as creationism or astrology aren't immune to science, they are merely wrong. Take the tale of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian yogi (and physics graduate) who taught transcendental meditation and won a global following after the Beatles joined his Academy of Meditation in India. Maharishi claimed that transcendental meditation gave practitioners access to the 'quantum field of cosmic consciousness'. This, he said, was identical to SU(5), the model physicists were then investigating in their search for a grand unified theory. Sadly for cosmic consciousness, real experiments later falsified SU(5)."
-- Amanda Gefter, joining us in laughing at all the meditators who - for fucking decades - have been spreading this goofy charlatan's nonsense (Hello, Paul McCartney!) unaware their own stupidity is one of the many Signs Of The Times.
She has never been one to shy away from controversy.
So when Heather Mills decided to buy a popular fish restaurant near her home, her first move was obvious:
Take fish off the menu.
Miss Mills plans to turn the seaside eaterie into a vegan restaurant, believed to be the first in a planned worldwide chain.
And there was bad news for staff as well as seafood-loving clientele: the current owner has laid them off and told them they will not be re-employed when the renovated cafe re-opens.
Miss Mills, 41, signed the deal to take over the Big Fish Cafe near her home in Hove, East Sussex, on Friday.
After initially agreeing to part with £255,000, Miss Mills, who clinched a £24million settlement in her divorce from Sir Paul McCartney, forced the price down to £140,000.
Former owner Nick Short said about the price fall: 'I have been well and truly worked over by Heather.'
I believe in karma (laughing), and I believe people get away with murder, too. For a while. Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
-- Paul McCartney, a vegetarian NewAger, trying to make his answer - to a particularly dumb NewAge question - work, in The Los Angeles Weekly.
"Given her obsession with filming even the most insignificant minutiae of her life, it is hard to believe anything could come as a surprise to Heather Mills.
The 40-year-old is permanently followed around by a lackey with a video camera, while she has surrounded her country estate with remote controlled lenses to ensure nobody can creep up on her, unexpectedly.
Which makes it all the more surprising that she didn't see Sara Trumble's lawsuit coming.
The claim - for sexual discrimination, intimidation and constructive dismissal - apparently came as a complete shock when Heather's long-standing nanny lodged it with an employment tribunal in Kent last week.
Coming barely three months after 24-year-old Miss Trumble's resignation in September, it has thrown the notoriously volatile Heather into a black hole of rage and introspection.
She is, friends say, beside herself with fury at the 'betrayal' by somebody she regarded as a close friend, at a time when she was beginning to think that the 'bad old days' were behind her.
She even seems to have been sidelined by her pet charity, No More Landmines, which last year admitted it was ‘allowing a period of calm’ in its relations with Heather, while simultaneously singing the praises of Sir Paul as an esteemed benefactor."
-- Richard Price, describing Heather "you can call me Peg" Mills and her apparent shock and disbelief that she is still her - no matter what she does or where she goes - which is an important safety tip for NewAgers, from Joseph Nigro and The Daily Mail.
"Sir Paul McCartney tried to turn the Dalai Lama vegetarian, insisting the famed Buddhist was 'wrong' to eat meat.
The Beatles legend wrote to the spiritual leader to point out that meat-eaters contribute to the suffering of animals, contradicting his statement that Buddhists 'believe in not causing suffering to any sentient beings'.
And the Hey Jude hitmaker even disagreed when the Dalai Lama insisted he ate meat for health reasons.
In an interview with Prospect magazine, MCCartney says, 'I found out he was not a vegetarian, so I wrote to him saying 'Forgive me for pointing this out, but if you eat animals then there is some suffering somewhere along the line'.
'He replied saying that his doctors had told him he needed it, so I wrote back saying they were wrong.'"
"I think Sir Paul is rewriting history now [that] Lennon has gone."
-- Alan Clayton, The Beatles' biographer, on recent comments by Paul McCartney that it was he who was the political figure in the band, relayed by The Daily Mail.
If you're living within the old paradigm, then you're missing it: I'm part of the new paradigm. Maybe even it's leader: educated atheist minority artists, probably conservative, who could give a shit about your obsession with racism - we care about other things.
Accurate quote:
Another accurate quote:
O.K. - here we go:
Actually, no, here's an example of the very-real phenomena (NewAge) Reynolds isn't addressing - that drives a lot of our world and makes the news daily - within our politics, and elsewhere:
And there it is: baby boomer cultism, as the gateway to our society's obsessions with environmentalism, organics, vegetarianism, multiculturalism (AKA "race") meditation, yoga, and a whole lot more. Most importantly, our politics.
From Al Qaeda and Hamas to various figures in this Vanity Fair piece - including people like Rahm Emanuel:
That's right: 
All these "movers and shakers" (who move and shake our lives with their, regularly idiotic and simply wrong-headed, take on things) all involved in one form or another of cultism. And not a word from the Instapundit on what kind of effect that has on our information stream. 
From a review of Sex and the City2 - tell me this ain't weird, and the result of cultism:
Where'd she learn that from? Who told her that was smart? Why is it in a feminist movie? Who's directing our thinking out there? Especially if astrologers and yogis are instructing the likes of Sally Quinn, Maureen Dowd, David Gregory and Rahm Emanuel?
Look at this:
Professor Reynolds, seriously, in light of the Vanity Fair quote, isn't cultism a better explanation for the weirdness that's happening, than what you're guessing at, daily? 
"Faster, please."
She has never been one to shy away from controversy.
Miss Mills, 41, signed the deal to take over the Big Fish Cafe near her home in Hove, East Sussex, on Friday.
"Given her obsession with filming even the most insignificant minutiae of her life, it is hard to believe anything could come as a surprise to Heather Mills.
"Sir Paul McCartney tried to turn the Dalai Lama vegetarian, insisting the famed Buddhist was 'wrong' to eat meat.
