Fake But Accurate Arguably Germane
By Mitch Berg
Sunday evening, as I was driving to drop Scarlett Johannson off at her hotel after a torrid, memorable weekend, we were talking about the free-market solution to the mortgage crisis. Now, as you know, Scarlett is a bit of a a lefty, but by the time we got to the hotel, she was nodding in agreement.
“The market has an inherent wisdom – almost an…”, she thought, “invisible hand, that is both faster and smarter than thuddish government regulation”, she said, running her tongue up my neck under my ear as I drove.
I love economics.
UPDATE: OK, so I’ve never actually dropped Scarlett Johannson off at a hotel. But the real point is, that most rational people will agree that the free market is the best solution to most problems, including – somewhat paradoxically and, to leftists, counterintuitively – problems caused by corruption and malfeasance in sectors of the market.
UPDATE 2: Lev from Miami writes “but you kicked off the story, correct as it may have been in economic terms, by claiming to have gotten this anecdote in the context of a “torrid, memorable weekend” with Scarlett Johannson. Isn’t that inherently dishonest?”
Sorry, Lev. There was a time I might have thought so, too. According to the Associated Press, as long as the point you’re making with an allegedly-fictitious story is legit, really, anything goes.
(Well, and as long as the point agrees with the AP’s institutional bias, of course).
Fake but accurate; the new “true”.
Oh, Lev? Scarlett says “hi, and shut up”.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Heh, I was going to email this to you. The exact same phrase popped into my mind. Looks like MSM is still promoting the Clintons afterall. I thought they had turned and Bill and Hill to promote O’bama.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Mitch, weren’t you and Scarlett dodging sniper fire too?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:23 am
she said, running her tongue up my neck under my ear as I drove… OK, so I’ve never actually dropped Scarlett Johannson off
Then, uh, whose tongue was that?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:24 am
“UPDATE 2: Lev from Miami writes “but you kicked off the story, correct as it may have been in economic terms, by claiming to have gotten this anecdote in the context of a “torrid, memorable weekend” with Scarlett Johannson. Isn’t that inherently dishonest?””
No Lev. As Mitch presents it, the “torrid weekend” was an allegory perfectly representing the free market: two people enter into an agreement that is perceived as mutually beneficial where neither force nor fraud was used:viola’- the free market! No government regulations, taxes or any other government interference.
How I long for the good old days when the God and the Constitution ruled!
May they come again and soon!
April 8th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Hillary changed the facts in the story to make her tragedy seem more a more commonplace occurrence then it really was. In fact the woman’s difficulties were sui generis. In essence, then, Hillary’s story was a lie.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:46 am
What, did Scarlet win a catfight with Marisa Tomei to win your affections?
April 8th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Chuck, AmX and Terry:
Yes!
Brad, Jeff and Kermit:
Will possibly be resolved in an upcoming post.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I love the smell of journalism at work, it smells like horse manure.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
“Sunday”…”Torrid”….”Scarlet”…”hand”…”tongue”…yeah. Allegory or not?
You got some ‘splanin to do buddy.