Our country tis of thee has lost a distant, senile FatherFigureHead. The media truly loves wallowing in non-events like the passing of Rap_Master Ronnie.
Fortunately the larger world online and off don't seem to sheepishly follow their lead anymore. In fact outside the mainstream "media-ocrity" life seems to be carrying on pretty much as usual. Though this could change in the next few days.
Unfortunately, it does take away from time they could spend covering much more relevant events...such as the 60th anniversary of D-day (Most of those vets won't be around for the 70th and what they did for the country and world was far greater than Ronbo) or Smarty Jones or even that little dust-up I heard about over in Iraq.
But while I'm not exactly broken up about the passing of a 93 year-old ex-President I was never too crazy for and who's been slowly dying of Alzheimer’s for 10 years anyway...I must admit I'm going to miss Ronnie. At least he was good for some laughs...albeit many nervous or unintentional. I'll especially miss him when I listen to the current occupant of his old office. Someone once said-"I'd rather have FDR in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse." I'd rather have Reagan on a horse than the HORSE'S ASS who stole an election and is running the country into the ground.
So to my old cowboy-actor, chimp-hugging, Jellybean-munching, reactionary Commander-In-Chief, I give a final SALUTE.
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branchandroot
Final Bedtime For Bonzo
Date: 2004-06-07 07:19 am (UTC)The media truly loves wallowing in non-events like the passing of Rap_Master Ronnie.
Fortunately the larger world online and off don't seem to sheepishly follow their lead anymore.
In fact outside the mainstream "media-ocrity" life seems to be carrying on pretty much as usual. Though this could change in the next few days.
Unfortunately, it does take away from time they could spend covering much more relevant events...such as the 60th anniversary of D-day (Most of those vets won't be around for the 70th and what they did for the country and world was far greater than Ronbo) or Smarty Jones or even that little dust-up I heard about over in Iraq.
But while I'm not exactly broken up about the passing of a 93 year-old ex-President I was never too crazy for and who's been slowly dying of Alzheimer’s for 10 years anyway...I must admit I'm going to miss Ronnie. At least he was good for some laughs...albeit many nervous or unintentional.
I'll especially miss him when I listen to the current occupant of his old office.
Someone once said-"I'd rather have FDR in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse."
I'd rather have Reagan on a horse than the HORSE'S ASS who stole an election and is running the country into the ground.
So to my old cowboy-actor, chimp-hugging, Jellybean-munching, reactionary Commander-In-Chief,
I give a final SALUTE.