‘Gone’: America declares itself to be god

My Israeli friends want to break with America before it is too late. They who
through millennia have always been a serious people no longer consider us to be
a serious people and feel the shared relationship could now destroy Israel. But
it is to be expected today in our country, where a former president actually
declares himself to be a priest and begins to perform marriages. We substitute
pop stars and politicians for priests and gods and politics for religion. We
have declared ourselves to be our own gods.

Something ended this week. We clearly need a new beginning. It might start with
a sacrifice: After embarrassing our free republic by their pitiful televised
pleas in song to the Real King James, Buckeye state Gov. Ted Strickland and
Sen. Sherrod Brown might be sent to the Great White North and be left on ice
floes naked and alone … more humane than the puppies-in-the river treatment.

It is hard to put into perspective what has been happening here for a long
time. Time magazine, for example,
reports that the Tea Party movement was started by a Fox reporter, but
journalists never start anything and MSM journalists never have. They prevent
things from starting.

In the absence of real reporting, we are left, like the Thermians in the clever
movie “Galaxy Quest,” to discern what is real by the headlines and TV images.
How were they to know that “Star Trek” was not the historical record and
Captain Nesmith (read: Kirk) was wearing a costume, not a uniform?

Observations today from TV images bring more accurate assumptions than the
daily riddles of MSM: Black people seem to be doing really well here. Not only
is the president black, but all the gods are black. Even the white god Bill
Clinton was declared black at deification. And when he left his human form last
year, The Gloved One saw tribute officially played on the light media so very
much longer than the death of Jack Kennedy and longer than the deaths of
Victoria and Lincoln played in the papers. Within a year, altars spontaneously
sprung up to him in the homes of the poor. To this day, his music is
everywhere: in grocery stores and restaurants, in cars and buses, in the
bathroom and the kitchen, everywhere. Even in church. It is impossible to get away
from it.

Banner headlines of newspapers tell the historic tale by their size and spread:
The Death of Lincoln, the Signing at Appomattox. Twelve Days that Shook the
World, Mao’s Long March. Victory over fascism in Germany and Japan. The
assassination of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. But there has never
been a headline or a page spread in all of American history like the one last
week when the very tall and competent Real King James left. The Cleveland Plain
Dealer, which once was a real newspaper,
pictured this god with his back to us walking away from top of the page to the
bottom with nothing else on the page but this bold, historic headline: “Gone.”

And that apparently was the end of things. Too bad. The dance of light and
honor was too difficult. The horse was too strong and too hard to ride. The
competition — China — too tough to face. Reality never had a chance.

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