My dear friend and mentor, Cliff Schecter, has a new post up; Cliff has given me permission to share his work with you, so I’ll give you the latest edition of what I call Cliff Notes.
He skewers better than a chef at Smokey Joe’s BBQ. He has comedic insights that rival those of our mutual friend, the hilarious Lizz Winstead. He’s sharper than the point on Sarah Palin’s pin head.
Here are a few excerpts from his latest, with permission. Please read the whole thing, because he has way more than I’ve included here. He explains why DC bipartisanship, as opposed to real outside the Beltway bipartisanship, should be taken to task for it’s warped values and how it repeatedly fails us and promotes evil and stupid people, while ignoring important things.
It’s a must-read. Here are bits and pieces that don’t do it justice. Please, link over for the entire post:
Bipartisan is just so darn cool. It’s hip! It’s now! It’s Rand Paul’s talking filibuster [...] Or, and I’m just thinking aloud here, perhaps when that word is uttered in Washington there is only once choice to be made: Run.
Because you see, there is actually bipartisanship that makes sense. It is all over the US. It will tell you that over 90 percent of the American public thinks there should be a 3-minute background checks before you purchase a combat weapon that can dismember kindergarten-aged kids, that the minimum wage should surpass that of Heilongjiang Province and that marriage equality is a concept long overdue.
But that is not the bipartisanship that exists in Washington… It’s the variety that just gave us the 10-year anniversary of the tragedy in Iraq and rewarded Condoleezza Rice of the “smoking gun”, “mushroom cloud” and “what does ‘Bin Laden determined to attack in US‘ mean” with a new role as a political analyst on CBS – as if she can figure out day in and day out how to tie her shoes.
That’s bipartisanship DC style. It ignored Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora, Trayvon Martin and finally got around to thinking we have a gun problem after grotesque inaction reached its logical conclusion, with 20 six and seven year olds mowed down like cattle in their classroom. [...]
Spawn of the dead, Liz Cheney, is close buds with key DC media gatekeepers – so by all means let’s have her on the Sunday shows even though she’s a cretinous dolt whose father is so evil – he’s literally burned through something like four hearts by now.
A recent Sunday morning talk-show lineup resembled a chain gang, with Ralph Reed, onetime Jack Abramoff water boy, Tony Perkins… alongside the Ku Klux Klan and the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre… Because being right-wing, malevolent and wrong is an actual career advancement plan in Washington!
Cliff Schecter is an author, pundit and public relations strategist whose firm Libertas, LLC handles media relations for political, corporate and non-profit clients.
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