THERE SEEMS TO BE THIS OVERWHELMINGLY HARD-WIRED BELIEF INHERENT AMONG THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT AND THEIR DROOGS as implies that the Lower Classes, especially so the "chronic and habitual welfare basket cases," are somehow "lacking in healthy respect for morals and decency" to the point of having this overzealous fondness for the crudest and most explicit forms of pornography known.

Especially so such as goes beyond "schoolboy" soft porn in the likes of Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler to the point of full-on hardcore--the which these same specimens of Zealotry and True Belief would just love to deploy as a means of cheap and cheerful pacification most extreme, espeially where such can be displayed in its most explicit form possible (and especially so where children and animals are involved).

Talk about your doublethink right there....

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MEANWHILE, PERHAPS IT WAS TIME TO SHOW THE REAL, JANUS-FACED, SARAH PALIN FOR WHAT SHE REALLY IS, AND WHAT SHE REALLY REPRESENTS--first, by way of the American News Project, ultimately via Brave New Films, showing just how hard-wired (as it were) the Elmer Gantry element is in parroting out nothing but a carefully-scripted series of hagiographic paeans:

And, for the sake of "fairness and balance," Fox Prolefeed notwithstanding, Comedy Central's Daily Show has the following, starting @ about 3:08 into the following:

And Another Thing:

In reply to Ms. Palin's unflattering attack on those unselfishly giving of their time and talents to the community in the name of a perverted ideal of a Greater Collective Good as is up there with what totalitarian regimes see thereof, may I call your attention to these immortal remarks of Theodore Roosevelt in his speech entitled "Citizenship in a Republic" @ the Sorbonne in Paris on 23 April 1910 (by way of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Society), remarks as relevant today as they were shorly after Teddy picked up his Nobel Peace Prize for brokering the Treaty of Portsmouth as ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1907:

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

In a similar vein as above are these much earlier remarks of Theodore Roosevelt before he acceeded to higher things (credit as above):

...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic-the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done. (1891)

Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger. (1894)

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MEANWHILE, THE GREATER CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT'S FEAR, LOATHING AND CONTEMPT FOR ELITISM, WHAT WITH ITS SUBTLE TURNS TOWARDS ANTI-SEMITISM and other displays of paranoia, suggests to Your Correspondent what may best be described as Producerism, pure and unadulterated.

Which, simply put, holds as follows:

• The Working Classes, as of unwritten right, custom and tradition, are entitled to special rights, privileges and powers by virtue of their role and place; however,
• Said rights, privileges and powers are under constant threat of being compromised and undermined,
• on the one hand, by banking, financial, media, Hollywood and Wall Street elites, dominated for the most part by Jews working as part of an Evil and Sinister Conspiracy to undermine Christians and Christendom (per that infamous forgery known as the Protocols of Zion), and
• on the other hand, by National Minorities of "inferior races," "chronic and habitual" welfare cases, "freaks and travesties of Nature" (as in homosexuals and transsexuals) and other "troublemakers"generally; hence,
• Using "whatever means necessary," no matter how loathsome, offensive or repugnant--and excusing such as True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command if and when pressed to explain--to protect as much as defend the "antient and pecuilar rights, privileges and powers that the Working Classes are entitled to as of right and custom."

Which, given this same element's fear and loathing of the Establishment Media Elites as being part of a Greater Liberal Media Conspiracy ("Liberal," methinks, being anti-Semitic code), is also enough to wonder if the messengers thereof have this warped nostalgia for the likes of gazettas such as Grit, Comfort, Capper's Weekly and the National Weekly Edition of The Kansas City Star ... or, for that matter, the populist-leaning programming overnights on high-powered Mexican "border-blaster" stations whose calls invariably began with XE. And looking upon them with a maudlin sense of emotional nostalgia rivalled by certain specimens of German Heimatroman such as the Nazi regime was fond of pushing in cheap editions.

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CLOSING OUT THIS EDITION, WE HAVE ANOTHER ROUND OF "THE SCOOP" from the back page of the Minnesota State Fair Daily News for Day 5 (Monday, 25 August):

Rachel head of sellers at gate 5 won silver for marching ask her

Thank you Liz F for the VERY special treat just when I needed it! Mary M.

Thanks to Leia from Sales for helping us out in a last minute bind. Much appreciated. Admin. Dept.

WBIII, like I said they will be lining up!!!

Mary at Gate is old but awesome

KF, you just made a families [sic] day!

BD: are we going to have some kick butt tan lines tomorrow! Wear them with pride!

TD, your announcement skills blow my mind!

BES you are just a ball of fun!

Fairchild and Fairborne you did great work!

WEN sometimes we don't know what to do with you down here ... but I guess you've been here for four years we'll take you for another fair!

Teflon: your left arm is going to be so muscular from lugging that gorgeous piece of jewelry around

RG the handshake is beyond awesome it is beloved by all

AH you are one heck of a gal ... fair secrets and all!

Oh those dogs at the Pet Center were a hoot!

Anyone tired yet??

Man oh man that pie was out of this world

Frisky as a puppy ... yeah I dig it

WE LOVE THE FAIR!!!

Andrea: nothing wrong with multiple fair friends....

FoN stage ... what a hoot

I would love to learn how to carve a beautiful flower out of some fruit or anything really

Who's up for a ride in Adventure Park!?!

Sleep in eight days!

Who thinks it's time to go eat? Andy we know you're in

I'm ready to rumble Peter!

Backstreet is back and ready for action!

AH I heard you tried to rush the stage last night ... how'd that turn out for you?? I always felt that you could be a really good groupie for some lucky band

Teflon: My ovs are burnin!!

Continued tomorrow....