Canard Cruises

The famous seven dwarves testimony from 1994 has been on my mind lately. It was hard to regard it as emblematic of anything at the time. A bunch of rich guys, CEOs, showed that they had sold their souls and it didn't seem like a big deal. After all, they got a good price.

Those people were paid well by the tobacco companies. But I think it's been on my mind because it was, in fact, emblematic. Americans will do anything for money. Money is powerful enough without being associated with moral goodness and the approval of God. 

But with it?

Total crack cocaine. It's a puritanical innovation, I believe, that association, but you convince them of that. I think it's not possible. Nobody even seems to care enough to ask the pertinent questions. There's an entire entity, FOX NEWS, devoted to the denial of reality.

Not to say that they're liars. They may be delusional. But they are well paid and it makes me suspicious. The stuff they put out there is as patently and provably untrue as "nicotine is not addictive" and they go unchallenged. Their ratings are great and they make lots of money.

There's no equivalent in opposition to their propaganda machine, meaning a reality machine. Maybe reality is too mundane. That faction, those insisting on sanity, isn't getting the job done. A lot of it is the money. The motivation at FOX NEWS is all enmeshed with that.

I view FOX like a cruise line. Canard Cruises, let's say. The ships stay out of port until they sink, which they eventually must, because they are unsupported by reality. The passengers have to live on whatever they embark with in the way of ideas, floating around all misinformed.

One boat is the BIRTHER QUEEN, captained by Orly Taitz, which ran aground in Hawaii. Another is the CREATIONIST, which is floundering about somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle. And the HOMOPHOBIA is taking on water off a nude gay beach in the Bahamas.

SUPPLY SIDE and RISING TIDE, sister ships, previously sank but have been raised and are again out at sea with paying passengers. I mean, how much can a good, used gunboat cost these days, I find myself wondering, but the complicity of the people on those ships is uncertain.

The well-paid people at CANARD don't care at all about them at all and those higher up in the food chain are really making out, in real time, so they don't care even if FOX ultimately fails. The investment is about income and the income is immense.

So the whole cruise line is sinking along with its ships under the weight of the craziness. The sad thing is the damage they leave behind. This wonderful country of ours--wonderful in spite of its many faults--is left way worse off by these people and their fantastic greed.