I'm sorry to post this if you have seen it before but if you haven't, then please watch the most assine display of political numbskullary I have ever seen. Al Gore would look like a piker next to John Kerry and we still think he is a representative of the people. I see this **** and want pluck my eyes out.
Who elects these people ...really ?
Oh, to have been at John Kerry’s meeting Tuesday with a dozen Hollywood executives at Universal Studios. To have sat in one of the cushy leather chairs beneath a vintage poster for The Phantom of the Opera, sipping bottled water, relaxing in the Mediterranean climate of southern California, and been solicited by the U.S. secretary of State for advice on how to defeat radical Islam. What a confirmation of one’s status in the film industry, of one’s place in the global economy, of one’s importance to the Democratic Party. “Great convo w studio execs in LA,” Kerry tweeted after the discussion, “Good to hear their perspectives & ideas of how to counter #Daesh narrative.
The State Department would have us believe that Kerry schlepped to Universal Studios in service of national security. “This is not just a military battle. It’s a battle of ideas between competing narratives,” Kerry’s aide Richard Stengel, a former parrot of the conventional wisdom at Time, told CBS. “Hollywood is one of the greatest competitive advantages we have as a country. It’s revered all around the planet. It’s our second largest export.”
A successful U.S. “narrative” and “storytelling” campaign would highlight combat success at the platoon level, military valor, the economic and scientific and moral triumphs of our democratic society, would argue feistily and confidently that the American system is not only one system but the best system, for everyone, and that Western values of freedom and equality before the law are superior to all others.
But let’s interrupt Stengel’s rationalizations with some real talk. This meeting wasn’t public diplomacy. It was donor service.
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Who elects these people ...really ?
Oh, to have been at John Kerry’s meeting Tuesday with a dozen Hollywood executives at Universal Studios. To have sat in one of the cushy leather chairs beneath a vintage poster for The Phantom of the Opera, sipping bottled water, relaxing in the Mediterranean climate of southern California, and been solicited by the U.S. secretary of State for advice on how to defeat radical Islam. What a confirmation of one’s status in the film industry, of one’s place in the global economy, of one’s importance to the Democratic Party. “Great convo w studio execs in LA,” Kerry tweeted after the discussion, “Good to hear their perspectives & ideas of how to counter #Daesh narrative.
The State Department would have us believe that Kerry schlepped to Universal Studios in service of national security. “This is not just a military battle. It’s a battle of ideas between competing narratives,” Kerry’s aide Richard Stengel, a former parrot of the conventional wisdom at Time, told CBS. “Hollywood is one of the greatest competitive advantages we have as a country. It’s revered all around the planet. It’s our second largest export.”
A successful U.S. “narrative” and “storytelling” campaign would highlight combat success at the platoon level, military valor, the economic and scientific and moral triumphs of our democratic society, would argue feistily and confidently that the American system is not only one system but the best system, for everyone, and that Western values of freedom and equality before the law are superior to all others.
But let’s interrupt Stengel’s rationalizations with some real talk. This meeting wasn’t public diplomacy. It was donor service.
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