{"id":13556,"date":"2010-07-06T18:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2010-07-06T18:39:04","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T22:39:04","slug":"endtimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/06\/endtimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Endtimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw<\/p>\n<p><em>M.C. Karl Rove \u201crapping\u201d in 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve known about this video since it emerged from the 2007 White  House Radio and Television Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.\u00a0 But I never had the  stomach to watch it.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/archives\/2010\/jul\/15\/curveball-karl-rove\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Browich\u2019s review <\/a>of Rove\u2019s \u201cmemoir,\u201d <em>Courage  and Consequence: My Life Yadda Yadda Yadda <\/em>in the <em>New York  Review of Books, <\/em>seems to signal that the time has come.\u00a0 The full  Rasputinian horror of the period needs to be witnessed and its  implications contemplated.\u00a0 For example, is that the coddled and  perpetually-grinning-dipstick David Gregory of NBC News also performing  as part of (vomiting\u00a0 in my mouth a little) Karl Rove\u2019s \u201cposse\u201d?\u00a0 Maybe  we all should just start referring to the inside-the-beltway press corps  and the demagogues enabled by them as Romanovs:\u00a0 Karl Romanov, Cokie  Romanov, George F. Romanov, Glenn Romanov, Rush Romanov, Sean Romanov,  Candy Romanov, Wolf Romanov, Bill O\u2019Romanov, and so on.\u00a0 It certainly  befits the historical cycle they\u2019re currently riding into the ground  with their incomes, investments and retirement savings intact.\u00a0 They\u2019re  done.\u00a0 They\u2019re of no use except to make a bad situation even worse in a  more obviously diminishing\u00a0 return.<\/p>\n<p>Frye in \u201cThe View From Here\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The intellectual seems to be aware only of the higher  level of culture, just as the demagogue is aware only of the lower one.\u00a0  Real political guidance, of course, is constantly aware of both.\u00a0 (<em>Writings  on Education, <\/em>562)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hYZre8kEsuw M.C. 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