{"id":76534,"date":"2021-01-21T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76534"},"modified":"2021-01-21T06:34:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:34:49","slug":"president-of-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76534","title":{"rendered":"President Of Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitch BERG is out on his porch waiting for some food delivery.  He&#8217;s committed &#8211; can&#8217;t go inside yet &#8211; when Avery LIBRELLE happens around the corner. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Merg!   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Uh, hey, Avery&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Stop with all the scare talk.  Joe Biden is a moderate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:   Biden is a moderate in the exact same sense that Brooke Shields was George Michael&#8217;s girlfriend in the &#8217;80s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  What?  Go on&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:   In the &#8217;80s, various publicists circulated the story that Brooke Shields was dating George Michael &#8211; a fantastic singer who tripped every &#8216;gaydar&#8217; set in the world when &#8220;Wham UK&#8221; started releasing music videos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The &#8220;Relationship&#8221; was imposed on the couple, and the world, by the execs at Michael&#8217;s label for a bunch of reasons;  in an age when being &#8220;gay&#8221; was still pretty closet-y and the likes of Freddy Mercury and Elton John kept their orientations very much under the radar, it protected Michael&#8217;s marketability.  It benefitted both of their careers. It kept the whole &#8220;is he gay?&#8221; discussion from hampering record sales.  And it was neither of their idea &#8211; it was a concoction of publicists working for their various record, studio and management companies, to keep everyone&#8217;s nests feathered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  And&#8230;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Biden is the same thing.  He was brought in to put a &#8220;crazy grampa&#8221; veneer on a party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2021\/01\/democrats-will-pay-the-price-for-placating-the-squad\/\">whose extremism has exploded like a diet Coke with a Mento dropped in<\/a>.  To make incipient communism less scary for soccer moms.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  That&#8217;s just&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Just what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  I&#8217;m torn between &#8220;Racist&#8221; and &#8220;Anti-Palestinian&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG: Naturally&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>BERG&#8217;s delivery arrives. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitch BERG is out on his porch waiting for some food delivery. He&#8217;s committed &#8211; can&#8217;t go inside yet &#8211; when Avery LIBRELLE happens around the corner. LIBRELLE: Merg! BERG: Uh, hey, Avery&#8230; LIBRELLE: Stop with all the scare talk. Joe Biden is a moderate. BERG: Biden is a moderate in the exact same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76536,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76534\/revisions\/76536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}