When I was working as a reporter down in south Georgia near Plains, I was covering an event where former President Jimmy Carter was speaking. I was taking notes and got this feeling I was being watched. I glanced to my left and saw a Secret Service guy standing five feet away or so staring me down.
I just glanced back to my notepad and continue writing. That’s why I don’t believe anything that happened a year ago today. I know good and well if there was a real immediate threat, the Secret Service agents would’ve covered him like baby opossums as he was immediately rushed to a car and it would be gone in 6.0 seconds.
I also know that if he had any real damage, his ear wouldn’t have repaired so well. I cut my left index finger open ripping open a soft drink can. It was less than an inch long and bled like the bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street. I had the scar for years. I was 10 when this happened and I had it well into my 20s if not into my 30s.
Let’s not forget at the end of the day, he has always wanted the spotlight. He has been in movies and on TV back in the 1980s. He appeared in a McDonald’s commercial and became a TV game show host. He even sung the theme from Green Acres alongside Megan Mullaly at the Emmys. He knows how to act and act badly.
I’ve lived almost 20 years at my house and my neighbor across the street raises cattle and has horses. I know bullshit and horse-shit when I smell it. His theatrics of raising his fist in the air followed by the mugging and kissing of the uniform of Corey Comperatore, a Pennsylvanian firefighter, is obvious to anyone who even acted in a Thanksgiving play during elementary school. The man is putting on a show.
And he doesn’t care who has to get hurt for him to get his fame. As the bodies of the people were still smoldering in the ruins of the World Trade Center towers, he boasted about how he now had the tallest building in New York City. He tossed paper towels to hurricane victims and lately said the waves from the flooding in Texas could make for good surfing. The man had no empathy for anyone but himself.
And I’m using that word “man” very liberal. He’s an overgrown child who never got a good old-fashioned trip to the woodshed. I’m no fan of parents who spank, hit or whip their children. But a broken clock is correct twice a day.
I’m no conspiracy theorist. But I know that whenever the average white guy goes nuts and shoots up a school or public place, we find out everything including what they got for Christmas when they were 9. We’ve learned so little of Thomas Matthew Crooks. Or it’s not been reported by the media as much. I still had to Google his name to get it correct but I know Mark David Chapman shot John Lennon and Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy Sr. Maybe it’s because the media no longer does independent investigative reporting, but caters to the corporation gods.
Assassination attempts on Presidents aren’t run of the mill even though they don’t always happen. Despite what was shown in The Last Boy Scout, Carter never had someone shoot at him. But Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford did. They tried to shoot Ford twice with a span of 17 days and he still lost the election. Bill Clinton was resting in the White House watching a football game when a man fired over two dozen rounds from a semi-automatic rifle at The White House. And Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoe at George W. Bush about a month before he left office.
But we’re not hearing much about Crooks. I wonder why. Maybe it’s the same reason Paramount Global chickened out and settled a $16 million lawsuit with him over something news media have been doing for decades and his own favorite news networks do all the time.
The reason we’re in this mess now is because 10 years ago, CNN aired that asshole’s press conferences in full length. This man sounds more and more like someone who has dementia or Alzheimer’s. And that should be very concerning for a lot of people but it isn’t. He’s 79 and counting. All he’s worried about is making money and staying out of jail.
I, like other people, weren’t surprised that the Epstein List “doesn’t exist.” And it’s funny this has become the line in the sand MAGA are mad at. The outrageous part is that they wanted to see the liberals on the list go down like Bill Clinton. They still have a hard-on for Clinton. The man hasn’t been President for almost 25 years and they still can’t get passed it. The only thing they didn’t really like about Clinton was he wasn’t a Republican.
He also proved Reaganomics didn’t work.
So, it’s no surprise that Ghislaine Maxwell will probably get a pardon as she has a hearing coming up this week. The level of corruption is so obvious and in our face nowadays that it can’t even be dismissed as ignorance on the common person. Yes, people may not have heard about Watergate before the hearings back in the 1970s but they didn’t have all the access to information literally in the palm of their hand.
If you don’t see anything wrong with this, you’re either complicit or really don’t need to be using the safety scissors they give pre-schoolers.
What do you think? Please comment.
Zane Says 