Fifty Shades of Mitt Romney

Written by John Escher

Wednesday, 18 July 2012 20:05

Just as the novel OBLOMOV by Goncharov is an allegory about old Russia getting up off of her couch, FIFTY SHADES OF GREY by E.L. James is about how Mitt Romney, if elected president, will put the United States down on a couch.

The fact that one of these novels is good and the other extremely horrid has little to do with our American prospects. Neither does the respective popularity of these books, revealing though that topic is. Nor is the actual sex life of Mitt Romney, as women know it, very relevant since all of it (just Mitt�s sex life and not that of his grandfather) will only fully bloom once he has bound the wrists of the United States together with a woven necktie.

What does this all mean? That Mitt is a homophobe who will remove the hair of any gay person as already happened at Cranbrook School? Maybe. More central, starting next February, we will have all private sector and no public sector any more. Is this current plan of Mitt even workable? In history? Where?

From the first pages of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY we can see that Christian Grey, �enigmatic CEO of Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.� is a dead ringer for Mitt Romney.

And his suite of offices is high�very high in the top of a penis-like building.

He is a �dom,� we soon learn, just as the United States or the book�s protagonist Anastasia Steele is a �sub� in search of her inner Republican.

The thing about allegory is that anything can be substituted for anything else. Thus, either the word �amnesia� or �anaesthesia� can be substituted for the name �Anastasia.� And Ana�s typical utterances on every page, �Jeez,� �Jeez, this is hot,� �Oh my� and a series of mild obscenities can all be replaced by the single expression �Gee willikers!!�

Yes, that�s how properly to read the book and how to read the United States, too much of which has a not very hidden wish to be manhandled.

�Gee willikers!!� our nation of subs will say�as the nation itself goes away.

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+10 # Activista 2014-07-11 00:25

Robert Parry writing is very important - especially these days when war on Gaza will morph into the war on Iran.
here I wrote 9 days ago:
Activista 2014-07-01 10:53
"Hamas in Gaza responded Monday evening to the discovery of the bodies of the three Israeli teens, kidnapped on June 12, denying complicity in the kidnapping and blaming Israel for "preparing the ground" for an attack against Gaza."
www.haaretz.com - I find Haaretz or Hamas more trutworthy than Israeli/USA mass media ...
That Israel will use its propaganda blitzkrieg to attack Iran (now IF but when).

+7 # Citizen Mike 2014-07-11 05:48

So much for the conservatives' claim that The Times has a left-wing bias! Damifino how they can say that. Mainstream journalism tends to lean right and support all kinds of government wrongdoing, such as waging wars of aggression, the kind conservatives like.

+1 # Buddha 2014-07-11 10:22

Quoting Citizen Mike:

So much for the conservatives' claim that The Times has a left-wing bias! Damifino how they can say that.

Because many Conservatives are still living in the 1950's, when "Left Wing Media Bias" actually had some small truth to it? And for those who know better and craft GOP narratives, because it still plays with the ignorant base, getting them to drink the Corporate Kool-Aid voluntarily?

+6 # ericlipps 2014-07-11 06:11

Unfortunately, a lot of people, including many liberals, bought the "WMDs" claim about Saddam Hussein, as conservatives keep gleefully reminding us.

I wonder if they'd be quite so gleeful, though, if they realize that what they're really admitting is that (1) our intelligence services are vulnerable to being led by the nose by those willing to provide false information which fits their (right-leaning) institutionaliz ed prejudices, and (2) conservatives are more than happy to provide such false information, even when they know, or have good reason to know, that it is false. Or, to put it another way, that our spy agencies are suckers for right-wing disinformation, and right-wingers are happy to sucker them.

+4 # Buddha 2014-07-11 10:26

Quoting ericlipps:

Unfortunately, a lot of people, including many liberals, bought the "WMDs" claim about Saddam Hussein, as conservatives keep gleefully reminding us.

I always laugh at this chestnut. My come-back is always that this take solely suggests is that the GOP are very effective liars, not that some liberals being duped by them provides any proof that deliberate lies weren't being told. Any psychologist will tell you that Sociopaths are always good at lying.

+6 # RMDC 2014-07-11 07:55

Of course Michael R. Gordon was the co-writer on many of Judith Miller's total fabrications published on the front page of the NYT. Actually, the Miller and Gordon stories were more than fabrications. They were direct dis-information stories from Dick Cheney's office. Gordon and Miller were how Cheney and his lying machine took control of the front pages of the NYT. Of course the editors at the NYT knew this and consented to it. The NYT has been doing this for more than a century.

Now Miller works at FOX news and Gordon is still the well greased conduit for the lies of the military industrial complex.

There is no "free press" in the US. The major media are simply conduits for the ruling elites to tell the masses what they intend to do. They inform the masses so the masses will support the actions, such as a war against Iraq or the funding of a coup d'etat in Ukraine.

There's nothing to say about Anders Fogh Rassmussen. He's simply a whore. He does what the ruling elites tell him to do. There's no lie that is too disgusting to him. There's no amount of wanton killing that he's not willing to authorize. that's why his career has been so successful. He's a political whore of the first order.

0 # geraldom 2014-07-11 09:08

RMDC, allow me to explain an important point here. The U.S. controls the world, and I do not exaggerate this point. I never realized how much so until recently, until even Putin himself has become subservient to U.S. dictates, not because he's necessarily afraid of the U.S. military and its proxy puppet army in Europe, NATO, but because the U.S. controls the world's finances and can hurt most any country with sanctions.

We've a saying: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never harm me." I agree that people like Anders Fogh Rassmussen and Benjamin Netanyahu aren't the nicest people in the world, and calling them names may make one feel good, but it's not going to change anything unfortunately.

I am somewhat depressed right now because the only country in the world today that I thought could've changed anything, that could've stood up to the U.S., that could've opposed U.S. world domination, has just capitulated its power away to the United States, and that country is Russia. I refer you to the following short article that came out today:

http://seekingalpha.com/news/1839155-russia-not-interfering-as-ukraine-surrounds-donetsk

Putin has just told the United States of the world that it will not stand up to the U.S. and that the U.S. is virtually free to do whatever it wants to do in the world today.

Name calling doesn't work when you're dealing with very thick-skinned people, people who are absent a conscience and a soul, evil wicked people.

0 # geraldom 2014-07-11 09:07

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+2 # Pikewich 2014-07-11 11:59

Well.....Duh!

Anyone who depends on any corporate media outlet for accurate information should have their heads examined.

Remember, one definition of insanity is to continue the same behavior expecting different results.

What if we ignored the NYT? Would it figure out it needed to provide accurate information?

0 # Activista 2014-07-11 14:28

0 # LAellie33 2014-07-26 04:46

Did some ugly rightwing extremist take over the NYTimes?

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