Revised and Originally published 2.04.2009
The Dowdy Dowd[1]--aka The Old Red Lady
of The Old Gray
Lady –writing in the Walter Duranty Papers [2]
--is known to flaunt her opinions with an acidic flamboyance while glossing
over a few singular bits and pieces that would derail her argument if they were
permitted in her blistering texts. It
has been some time since she waxed worthy of my attention as the economic
voodoo dances of Paul Krugman[3]
and the Convoluted Mental Follies of Our Babbling David Brooks[4]
have been more interesting of late. Dowd has finally passed from her virulent attacks
on Sarah Palin[5]
as she scoured ever dumpster and rabbit hole in Alaska in search of political
dirt, and now and seems to be back to her normal occupation that of stirring
the liberal cauldron so as to persuade the disnimble that words and taxes and
massive spending can salvage the US Economy. It must be time to rescue young O’Bozo
from his inheritance.[6] The economy is crashing and the liberals are
celebrating with more spending. These
derailing points are omitted from her screed.
We open Act 1
with this auspicious and timely theme:
“You know you’re in trouble when Old Europe
chastises you for being too socialist.”[7]--
No More Hummer Nation By Maureen Dowd March 31, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes. This link references all quotes in this essay
unless otherwise noted.]
In most
propaganda pieces, at least the kind that have been carefully honed and crafted
by the Walter
Duranty Papers, the central political point is established early on
and usually in the first sentence.[8]
Here, we deviate from the standard propaganda lever-pushing of the Times
and ring in a bit of what appears to be hyperbole. This is the only mention of socialism in this
propaganda piece.
That was sufficient for a whole act. Let
us now mine for substance:
“As President Obama renegotiates the terms of
American leadership this week in Europe , those
of us left at home struggle to get over our affluenza. That
condition, the bane of the middle class, is defined in a book of the same name
as “a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety
and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.”
Resume Propaganda
Generation:
We
now get back to leftist dogma. Apparently the dogged pursuit
of more taxes is immune to affluenza . It appeared, for a while,
that Maureen’s
handlers had let her slip from the essence of reality that now stimulates certain
prose guidelines in a bankrupt newspaper. The oblique message here is that we are too
successful and need a lesson in humility. After all, how many Africans drive
Hummers?[9]
How many in Cambodia Cuba
“The president is obviously worried about leaving us alone
and under the economic weather…[this goes no
where..rycK]…[shift
to some government advice]: “Economic turmoil
(e.g., increased unemployment, foreclosures, loss of investments and other
financial distress) can result in a whole host of negative health effects —
both physical and mental,” the government Web page sympathized, offering
warning signs such as “persistent sadness/crying” and “excessive
irritability/anger” and tips for managing stress, including: “Trying to keep
things in perspective — recognize the good aspects of life and retain hope for the
future.” And one particularly useful for
Rick Wagoner and those of us in the newspaper business: Develop new employment
skills.”
We
wonder if taking more drugs or smoking medicinal marijuana would help out.
“I heard a French scientist on a radio show
once explain that Americans would always insist on supersizing things because
our “reptilian brain” likes things big. We’re still big, as Norma Desmond said.
It’s everything around us that’s collapsing and shrinking.”
That must be true. Frogs are amphibians.
Now, we search for
answers to the imponderables:
“How big do we need to be to still feel
American? How big can our national debt grow? How big can our cars be? And how
big is our clout abroad these days? Will Michelle’s style in Europe
make as big a splash as Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s?”
Michelle
needs to get back on the Angry Black
Woman theme[10]
and intimidate the ‘bigness’ out of us.
Back onto Hummers:
“But Mr. Obama’s move [firing the CEO of GM...ed] was
bracing, a sign, at long last, that the president will not tolerate failure, not when he has to print all the money in
the universe to underwrite obtuseness. Wagoner showed no foresight or
willingness to curb an unhealthy appetite for the big. He failed to
eliminate brands and launched the Hummer line in 2001. (Hummers remain icons of
power in Iraq
A Quiz: If GM is $60 bln in debt then how much sales volume do they
have to generate to pay off this with a 10% profit? Answer: 660 bln dollars.
How many cars is that at $30,000 for a ‘small car?’ See the answer in this
footnote:[11]
I wonder how a healthy appetite we have for such a huge number of cars. By the
way, what should Honda and Toyota
“The Ford Motor Company, the
only Detroit Apr 1, 2009 .
Gee,
that sounds great! Why not subsidize GM by giving out 100,000,000 vouchers for
free cars as long as we are thinking big and spending a bunch of money? Free
cars ought to attract some urgently needed votes for the problems the liberals
see in 2010 at the polls. So, will O’Bozo tolerate failure after he ‘fixes’ up GM? Spending and inflation are not a problem
we must conclude.
A number count: It seems that “Automakers sold 857,735 light vehicles last month, a 37
percent decline from a year earlier, according to Autodata Inc.”[13] That is 14 million cars by last year’s
standards. Is it true that if GM as a 10% share it can only sell 1.4 million
cars and they are about 20,000,000 cars short after you check out the footnote?
A 20% share doesn’t help. The other salient matter is that they have lost 82 bln dollars in the last 5 years and
cannot seem to sell cars at a profit! What GM needs is a 157% share. Can Barney Frank [Backside Barney[14]] manage to get that through Congress?
The
French are right! This is a big reptilian episode in finance and government
nonsense.
Dowd wonders off into Lala Land
“But
Detroit
President Obama must nurse us through our affluenza,
addressing both our visceral need to be big and our cerebral decision to be
leaner — and much, much smarter.”--Dowd
Don’t worry Maureen, O’Bozo is working on the affluenza affliction. Our need [or ability] for the average person
to buy a new big car will certainly diminish in the near future. Keep printing
money and we can all be rich enough to afford small cars. That makes sense to a
liberal. Obama knows all about auto production. We are in great shape.
For the first time in
my adult life I am ashamed of my country.
rycK
Comments:
ryckki@gmail.com
[1] The Old Red Lady of The Old Gray Lady
Waxes Sour Against Moose and Religion.
The
Old Red Lady of the Old
Gray Lady Howls about Wall Street and Fat Cats
[2] In honor of that celebrated Communist
stooge and liar and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the NYT . The color RED is used in my essays in honor of Walter Duranty,
a saint, if there could be one, in the Marxist Archives of Honor.
[3] Krugman of the NYT Complains about a ‘Failure to
Rise.’ We Should Spend More and Nationalize theBanks.http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/13/krugman_of_the_nyt_complains_about_a_%E2%80%98failure_to_rise%E2%80%99_we_should_spend_more_and_nationalize_the_banks.thtml
Krugman of
the NYT Complains about the Low Level of
Spending. Spend More and More and More!http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2009/02/09/krugman_of_the_nyt_complains_about_the_low_level_of_spending__spend_more_and_more_and_more!.thtml
[4] The Babbling Brooks
of the NYT
Babbles
and Fantasizes about Financial Reality and Economic Certainties.
[5] The Old Red Lady of The Old Gray
Lady Harps about Harpies and Barbies and Finds
Nothing in Alaska
The
Old Red Lady of The Old
Gray Waxes Sour Against Moose and Religion.
[6] The
White House during a depression.
[7] No
More Hummer Nation By Maureen Dowd Published: March 31, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/opinion/01dowd.html?_r=1 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes. This link references all quotes in this essay
unless otherwise noted.]
[8] Propaganda Gem: Krugman Distorts History as He Grubs for More Taxes.
Propaganda
Gem: Frank the Crank Clarifies Anger for the
Women Voters and the Polls Show Obama Wins the Most Women!
Propaganda
Alert: The New York Times Axes the Right Questions and then Answers Them with
the Left Answers.
Political Lessons from the Fairy Tales by the New
York Times: Propaganda at Work.
http://rycksrationalizations.townhall.com/g/1a8b21b3-4d72-4558-bece-fce7920b4d13
[9] Most of
their Marxist Dictators do when they have their Mercedes limos in the shop.
[10] Friedman of the NYT Drinks the Obama Kool-Aid and Sails off
into the Depression Era in Song and Dance.
[11] ]660 x 10^9]/[30 x 10^3] = 22 million cars.
[12] Auto Sales for March Offer Hope http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/business/02sales.html?hp
[13] Glimmer
of hope in March's steep auto sales drop By
Kimberly S. Johnson and Bree Fowler – 18 hours ago as of April 1.
[14] Backside Barney or”I think my bunny ought to be publicly financed.” Would you
like to rub my bunny? Backside
Barney Announces More Taxes and Spending! What Else?
[15] A
reference to EcoNazism.
The EcoNazis and Reality: Klaus Offers to Debate Al Gore.
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