PBS can be instructive
Who knew PBS could be helpful to a conservative?
It was raining yesterday, so I turned on the tv and was browsing when I hit on PBS. Usually if it's not Britcoms, I don't watch. There is enough liberal bias in the media, but it especially annoys me that some of my tax money goes to support this branch of the liberal media. However, this program was instructive; It was about the British royalty and apparently ran for several hours.
I hit on the Charles and Diane period. Frankly, I didn't much care for the presentation, but it did bring back memories that seemed to have a certain bearing on our current election.
You remember, if you're of a certain age, just how overboard so many went about the "fairy tale" wedding of Charles and Di. So many people wanted to believe that Prince Charming could meet the right young lady after so many years and have a "happily ever after" marriage.
Well, it was a fairy tale: No, it was a lie. Even while the wedding plans were being made, the principals and the coterie/hangers-on knew it was false. Charles was a cad who loved someone else; Di was apparently willing to sell herself for a chance to become queen. But the power of believe and hope was so evident in the British population (and to a ridiculous number of Americans) that the truth had no chance of being told. It took a few years, but even the most dense or hopeful finally understood the truth.
Well, we Americans now have our another of our Prince Charmings (a previous example was John-John Kennedy), who goes by the name of Obama. Too many of our people are so besotted with hope and change, they cannot/will not see the cold facts that are so evident. They believe, don't you know, and that makes them foolish, and just a bit stupid. His hope/change persona is a lie. Those of us who see it so clearly can't understand why the Obama true believers can't. Some will come around pretty soon, but by then it may be too late. But it will become apparent to all but the most dense that hope is something you wish to believe, but experience is something you can evaluate and maybe trust.
It was raining yesterday, so I turned on the tv and was browsing when I hit on PBS. Usually if it's not Britcoms, I don't watch. There is enough liberal bias in the media, but it especially annoys me that some of my tax money goes to support this branch of the liberal media. However, this program was instructive; It was about the British royalty and apparently ran for several hours.
I hit on the Charles and Diane period. Frankly, I didn't much care for the presentation, but it did bring back memories that seemed to have a certain bearing on our current election.
You remember, if you're of a certain age, just how overboard so many went about the "fairy tale" wedding of Charles and Di. So many people wanted to believe that Prince Charming could meet the right young lady after so many years and have a "happily ever after" marriage.
Well, it was a fairy tale: No, it was a lie. Even while the wedding plans were being made, the principals and the coterie/hangers-on knew it was false. Charles was a cad who loved someone else; Di was apparently willing to sell herself for a chance to become queen. But the power of believe and hope was so evident in the British population (and to a ridiculous number of Americans) that the truth had no chance of being told. It took a few years, but even the most dense or hopeful finally understood the truth.
Well, we Americans now have our another of our Prince Charmings (a previous example was John-John Kennedy), who goes by the name of Obama. Too many of our people are so besotted with hope and change, they cannot/will not see the cold facts that are so evident. They believe, don't you know, and that makes them foolish, and just a bit stupid. His hope/change persona is a lie. Those of us who see it so clearly can't understand why the Obama true believers can't. Some will come around pretty soon, but by then it may be too late. But it will become apparent to all but the most dense that hope is something you wish to believe, but experience is something you can evaluate and maybe trust.
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