Sometimes ya just gotta say, “WTF-nutsville?”

by Brian Brady

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The Obama Adminstration’s henchmen are whining about the proliferation of new media , in a Vanity Fair article and I just couldn’t resist poking some fun at the irony of their complaints and the foreshadowing of the “perfect business” in an economy they “design”

First, they bitch about the stamina required to work in the West Wing:

“There’s a relentlessness to this that’s unlike anything else, especially when you come into office in a time of crisis,” says Obama senior adviser David Axelrod. “We did not exactly ease into the tub. The world is so much smaller, and events reverberate much more quickly, and one person can create an event so quickly from one computer terminal.”

The State hates the internet; we all know that.  Rather than ignore the brays of  pajama-wearing boys, blogging in their parents’ basements, they long for a more genial, controlled speech:

Emanuel calls it “F****nutsville,” and Valerie Jarrett says she looks back wistfully to a time when credible people could put a stamp of reliability on information and opinion: “Walter Cronkite would get on and say the truth, and people believed the media,” she says.

Maybe,  just maybe, these people in The West Wing are…old.

Not old  in chronological age but definitely in hipness.  Despite the hip-hoppity nature of the campaign and his addiction to Blackberry, the President thinks young people need to turn off their iPhones.   The President doesn’t sound so hip anymore.  He sounds like a humbug father of two tween daughters.

Maybe it’s just a philosophical desire to be in control of everything, including the choices consumers make.  Forget the health insurance hijack or the nationalization of the residential real estate finance industry, the West Wing Big Dawgs dream of a business suitable for any Soviet Republic:

It got so bad last December that President Obama and Emanuel would joke that, when it was all over, they were going to open a T-shirt stand on a beach in Hawaii. It would face the ocean and sell only one color and one size. “We didn’t want to make another decision, or choice, or judgment,” Emanuel tells Purdum. They took to beginning staff meetings with Obama smiling at Emanuel and simply saying “White,” and Emanuel nodding back and replying “Medium.”

I suppose if the aforementioned national health plan works, all Americans will be small enough to wear those white, medium T-shirts.

Now, for the  irony of this upcoming Vanity Fair article:

The September issue of Vanity Fair will be available on newsstands nationally and on the iPad on Tuesday, August 10.

Sometimes, ya just gotta say, “WTF-nutsville?”