A Quick Thought on the Inauguration
“A quick thought on the Inauguration”
These days it seems that you can’t turn on the news with being sucked into the 24-Hour News Cycle Beast. That beast is what I am speaking of when I talk about “Glam-Media.” ”Glam-Media” is the world of news which creates and is inhabited by individuals such as Katie Couric, Tom Brokaw, Matt Laurer, and whatever the hell passes as an anchor on Fox News Broadcasting. It has the format of said “anchors” who have had a cookie cut life; most if all all of them have Colgate fresh smiles [Proctor-Gamble} or Colgate [Proctor-Gamble} fresh colons in Katie Couric's case, shiny if not impossibly glued into place hair and a certain "je ne sais quoi" about them that looks like they may just pass gas at any any second. After a few segments or exposes that instill fear of public bathrooms, public schools or retirement homes, they may interview Angelina Jolie about her next slave/baby adoption and they tend to finish up by "interviewing" (moreso introducing ) a pundit. [Note: If something politically charged has happened like today's inauguration or Chicago's governor auctioning of a little something, something well...the format changes and Angie has to skip the baby talk and chime in on that. Because what Angelina Jolie feels about a political incident is very much important to my day.]
pun⋅dit
[puhn-dit]
–noun
1. a learned person, expert, or authority.
2. a person who makes comments or judgments, esp. in an authoritative manner; critic or commentator.
Today, I have decided that the next pundit that compares Barack Obama to Martin Luther King Jr. is going to get hurt. I mean, I will get on the MTA, to AMTRAK (or Jet Blue) and after a short journey punch him or her in the face. Bonus punches (….er points….) if this idiot is actually broadcasting out of New York City, or anywhere in reasonable Metro Card distance or where I can hide with friends, family, or frenemies.
[Chester Kent]
