"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Monday, January 4, 2010
The One is Not Amused
Little Miss Attila has an excellent post dealing with the interesting combination of hypersensitivity and skewed perspective displayed by Obama and his self-appointed Praetorian Guard.
Everywhere I've looked, not one person has suggested that maybe somebody on the White House Flickr team posted that photo precisely because it makes Obama look bad. I mean, you have to wonder if all the people who work for and around him truly like him as much as his worshippers insist they do.
Obama's staff are a bunch of untalented political hacks who couldn't get a job paying more than minimum wage; clerking at a 7-11 would put stress their abilities to the limit.
But, as a reward for their political loyalty, they are given jobs that can performed using a checklist. For example, taking pictures of events, and uploading them to Flickr.
This amounts to make work, but such people would be able to pull it off....except when it comes having a certain amount of discretion, the sort of thing that a professional photographer might have gained through training and experience. Instead, they task the political equivalent of the idiot cousin to record and publish the personal reactions of important public official. Such the President of the United States.
I can easily imagine such a checklist saying things like "Don't talk to the guests", and "No pictures of Obama eating his ear wax". But "Don't show Obama's true personality"? Those sort of people wouldn't understand it, let alone believe it.
This isn't as silly as it sounds; patronage is the practice in Chicago. While living there, I met more than public employee who had their job strictly because they had a patron. God help them if they had to actually earn a living on their own. I recall one major who pretty much had a full time position in the Guard because he was the personal gopher for a certain full colonel.
I really prefer the idea of a mole. It's never a good idea to count on the stupidity of the opposition. But it's an excellent to take advantage of when they are stupid. Which seems to be more and more often these days with the Dhimmicrats. And the Republicans, to a lesser degree.
Everywhere I've looked, not one person has suggested that maybe somebody on the White House Flickr team posted that photo precisely because it makes Obama look bad. I mean, you have to wonder if all the people who work for and around him truly like him as much as his worshippers insist they do.
ReplyDeleteA mole, eh? You might be on to something, there, Rebecca.
ReplyDeleteThere's another possibility here:
ReplyDeleteObama's staff are a bunch of untalented political hacks who couldn't get a job paying more than minimum wage; clerking at a 7-11 would put stress their abilities to the limit.
But, as a reward for their political loyalty, they are given jobs that can performed using a checklist. For example, taking pictures of events, and uploading them to Flickr.
This amounts to make work, but such people would be able to pull it off....except when it comes having a certain amount of discretion, the sort of thing that a professional photographer might have gained through training and experience. Instead, they task the political equivalent of the idiot cousin to record and publish the personal reactions of important public official. Such the President of the United States.
I can easily imagine such a checklist saying things like "Don't talk to the guests", and "No pictures of Obama eating his ear wax". But "Don't show Obama's true personality"? Those sort of people wouldn't understand it, let alone believe it.
This isn't as silly as it sounds; patronage is the practice in Chicago. While living there, I met more than public employee who had their job strictly because they had a patron. God help them if they had to actually earn a living on their own. I recall one major who pretty much had a full time position in the Guard because he was the personal gopher for a certain full colonel.
I really prefer the idea of a mole. It's never a good idea to count on the stupidity of the opposition. But it's an excellent to take advantage of when they are stupid. Which seems to be more and more often these days with the Dhimmicrats. And the Republicans, to a lesser degree.
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