Friday, September 11, 2009
The Fascinating Mind of Phil Bronstein, ctd.
This post as well is fascinating.
It's not fun to criticize Barack Obama anymore now that everyone's doing it.
For Bronstein, you print criticism of the President not because he's doing something wrong, but because you want to be out of sync with your peers, so as to be viewed as an independent thinker. Or a visionary. Or something. Fact-based criticism? Oh no, then everybody would criticize at the same time, we can't have that. Imaginary criticism is much better to go against the flow.
Phil then goes into satire, accusing the president of being an "educationist, deeply discriminating against dropouts like, well, me. We admit, it's kinda funny.
But the readers, so used to Phil's empty complaints against Obama, they don't get it.
bbklly: Mr. Bronstein, If I understand your rambling editorial, or whatever it was meant to be, because you were a dropout, the President should not encourage students to finish school and for him to do so is, in your opinion, the height of hypocrisy...
HCVisigoth: Funny thing is, Obama very explicitly said, "don't be blinded by the rap stars, musicians and reality TV stars who make it after dropping out. Odds are, you're not going to be one of those."...
mgoofy24: What a FAIL of an article. Bill Gates was only as successful as he is BECAUSE OF HIS SCHOOL!...
ncoak: pretty sure this article is tongue in cheek. if not, get ****ed, phil :)
And on and on. They can't tell it's tongue-in-cheek, and think it's yet another anti-Obama diatribe from Phil!
It's not fun to criticize Barack Obama anymore now that everyone's doing it.
For Bronstein, you print criticism of the President not because he's doing something wrong, but because you want to be out of sync with your peers, so as to be viewed as an independent thinker. Or a visionary. Or something. Fact-based criticism? Oh no, then everybody would criticize at the same time, we can't have that. Imaginary criticism is much better to go against the flow.
Phil then goes into satire, accusing the president of being an "educationist, deeply discriminating against dropouts like, well, me. We admit, it's kinda funny.
But the readers, so used to Phil's empty complaints against Obama, they don't get it.
bbklly: Mr. Bronstein, If I understand your rambling editorial, or whatever it was meant to be, because you were a dropout, the President should not encourage students to finish school and for him to do so is, in your opinion, the height of hypocrisy...
HCVisigoth: Funny thing is, Obama very explicitly said, "don't be blinded by the rap stars, musicians and reality TV stars who make it after dropping out. Odds are, you're not going to be one of those."...
mgoofy24: What a FAIL of an article. Bill Gates was only as successful as he is BECAUSE OF HIS SCHOOL!...
ncoak: pretty sure this article is tongue in cheek. if not, get ****ed, phil :)
And on and on. They can't tell it's tongue-in-cheek, and think it's yet another anti-Obama diatribe from Phil!
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