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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."--C.S. Lewis
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:: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 ::
On Camels
I liberated this photo from Powerline shot by Captain Ed on blogrow at the 2004 Republican National Convention. It depicts, from left to right, John Hindraker (rocket man), novelist Roger L. Simon, and Tom Bevan of RealClearPolitics. I can't look at this photo and not think we are wittnessing a pivotal moment in the history of the written word. Nothing less than the birth of an outrageous new media, a distributed media, in which the power of the 'press' has finally been returned to the people for which it was intended to serve--all the people.
There is something else depicted in the photo; if you look closely, you will see a rather large camel who has breeched the proverbial tent-walls entirely and is now wreaking havoc in its inner sanctum. In fact, there are more camels on the way--a hord of camels that media's small, private tent is plainly unable to accommodate.
Main-stream pundits, if they are to remain viable at all (which is, at this juncture, an open-ended question) must now find a way to coexist with these unruly, spitting beasts because they ain't going away anytime soon.
Ironically, What is so bizarre about this whole situation is that the preening talking-heads and their their effete, print-media peers seem to be missing what may be the biggest story of their entire professional careers; here's a clue guys--it's camels stupid!
:: Max 11:35 AM [+] ::
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