Sherman R. Frederick/Properly Subversive
It’s amusing to see otherwise sane commentators like Matt Labash go full-on Donald Duck over former President Trump doing a long interview with Elon Musk on X.
The two engaged in a civil and (in my hearing, anyway) interesting conversation Tuesday evening on a wide variety of topics. Not a lot of news came out of it, but it was at the very least instructive to hear a presidential candidate go on so long in a relatively unguarded fashion.
Yet, Matt dings it for this:
Listening to these two billionaire buffoons tongue-bathe each other while slopping the disinformation hogs with fake news brought to mind the late, great Cormac McCarthy’s line from his novel, Cities of the Plain: “This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we’ve all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?”
I mean, seriously, Matt, the reference to Cormac McCarthy is a nice touch, but what burr got under your saddle?
I guarandamntee you Joe Biden couldn’t do a conversation for two hours without devolving into an incoherent mess. It would have been nice to know that three years ago. And, based on what we’ve seen so far, I’m not so sure Kamala Harris could either.
Also, what’s wrong with long form interviews, even if it is as Matt says “two billionaire buffoons tongue-bathing each other”?
We need more tongue-bathing, I say.
We’d be better off as a country if each candidate did more of them and less staged rallies with teleprompters, goofy hats and screaming fans.
So, how about it, Mrs. Harris. Pick your buffoon — Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates? — and spend a couple of hours with the American voter.
I don’t have a literary figure’s quote to dress up this thought, but I like what Martha Stewart said:
It’s a good thing
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