Fake But Accurate Arguably Germane

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”.

9 thoughts on “Fake But Accurate Arguably Germane

  1. 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.

  2. 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?

  3. “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!

  4. 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.

  5. Chuck, AmX and Terry:

    Yes!

    Brad, Jeff and Kermit:

    Will possibly be resolved in an upcoming post.

  6. “Sunday”…”Torrid”….”Scarlet”…”hand”…”tongue”…yeah. Allegory or not?

    You got some ‘splanin to do buddy.

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