The legend owed something to Hollywood:
"D.C. powerful gather to salute Ben Bradlee" by Peter Baker | New York Times October 30, 2014
WASHINGTON — They came together to bid farewell to one of their own, Benjamin C. Bradlee, a “journalistic warrior” and “human blizzard.” They paid tribute to his fearless fervor for a good story, his old-school patriotism, his impatient energy, his irreducible magnetism, and his sailor’s vocabulary. They mourned the passing not just of a larger-than-life figure but the bygone era he represented.
The legendary editor who helped force out a president and transformed American journalism, Bradlee long before his death had passed into icon status, as much an idea as a person. But at a power-packed service at Washington National Cathedral on Wednesday, his family, friends, and admirers celebrated the man as well as the myth, offering a eulogy for a Washington that is no more.
That's a lot to take in, and does indeed shatter the myth around today's $lavish ma$$ media since we not only have current and former war criminal presidents, the propaganda pre$$ colluded, collaborated, and enabled it all.
(Sound taps)
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For Washington, it was a tribal event, one of those occasions like inaugurations or State of the Union addresses when the city briefly suspends the petty bickering, cynical spinning, and strategic conniving to take stock and reflect on the lives and forces that shape its ways.
The "tribe," huh? I mean, when you read the rest, quite honestly, they are behaving like a certain historic tribe that also begins with a h and which seems to have bought loads of power in Washington through taxpayer-funded campaign contribution kickbacks along with subtle threats when being visited by lobbyists.
The tribe, strained as it has been in recent years and on the verge of another election threatening a new seismic shift, assembled to grieve the loss of one of its leading protagonists.
There, they used the term again and that election yesterday's news (btw, nothing changed and the forthcoming posts this morning will prove that)!
The service for Bradlee, who died last week at 93, bore all the hallmarks of capital ritual:
That's when I left the service.
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I suggest you get your own room and do some different reading.
That's not to say Nixon was lovable and not a war criminal and scum, but it let's you dig a little deeper than Hollywood mythology and self-serving propaganda pre$$ narratives.
