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1994-02-03
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I've about had it with the national media. Here we have the
greatest president in history and all these bastards can do is
find any way they can to cut him down, and I'm tired of it. I
can no longer bite my tongue in respect for the First Amendment,
because I think this goes far beyond innocent stupidity. Some
people would argue that a person's right to intentionally lie to
the public is protected. I am not one of those people. I wrote
this letter and faxed it out to my newspaper list. It
represents my view of the latest, so called Clinton Scandal.
==> Harumph! Harumph! <==
Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and
being tripped over. In watching the coverage of the latest
so called Clinton Scandal, it is clear to me that the
national press corps hates Clinton. Their coverage is so
unprofessional that they have to spend one third of each
report trying to justify their contention that this story
isn't as sloppy as it appears on the surface.
The real question is, Why are they doing this? Could it be
that they are upset because Clinton is different than other
presidents in that he is a genius? In the past reporters
have been used to presidents who were less intelligent than
they were. The last two presidents, in particular, made
reporters think that they were mental giants.
But now there is someone in the White house who is operating
at a level that is beyond their comprehension. Not only
that, President Clinton identifies himself personally as
being a Small Town Good Ole Boy Country Hick. And this hick
isn't providing the kind of perks that previous presidents
have used to express their respect for the fact that the
media have the power to crush their public image on a whim.
How dare he!
What I want to see is stories about our future and what we as
a society can do to advance ourselves. How to solve the
problems we, as a nation, face together. I'm not interested
in Bill Clinton's (or Michael Jackson's) crotch. I don't
care to see the heinous crimes that occurred that day. I
think it's time for the national press to take a long hard
sober look at themselves and ask the question, Just what is
it that a journalist is supposed to do really?
A major point in the above letter was based on the fact that
smart people are oppressed in this culture and that the press is
uncomfortable covering someone who is smarter than they are. I
have yet to see one person in the National Press Corps who has
demonstrated that they even have a basic understanding of what's
going on, let alone the ability to analyze it. These people are
so shallow that if they ever got out of journalism, they could
easily qualify as an education administrator or a postal
employee.
Normally, smart people learn to hide how smart they are. It's
something I've been struggling with all my life until recently,
when I decided to come out of the back room about it. But the
President and his staff find it very hard to face the nation's
problems and try to solve them while trying to play stupid at
the same time. The Clintons have had to expose to the nation
just how smart they are, for the good of the nation. And I
think that it's time that we count our blessings and be thankful
that our future is in the hands of nerds.
Copyright (c)1993 Marc Perkel
Reprinted with permission from
THINKING MAGAZINE, Marc Perkel, Editor