GOP Infighting? You’d Never Know It From Fox Fluff
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Cameron’s so far up Rep. Paul Ryan’s ass that he can taste the hair gel:
Still, Ryan is comfortable zinging the White House budget director by day and hobnobbing at the White House with the chief of staff and treasury secretary by night.
He’s confident, not cocky — he picks up his own dry cleaning — but he’s clearly being groomed.
Ryan, however, is wary of party elders. Like last year’s GOP presidential nominee, John McCain, he fancies himself a reformer, blaming "them" — the nameless Republican old guard — for abandoning principle and shrinking the party.
Oh, he’s being groomed alright.
In the YouTube above, Lester Bangs in Almost Famous tells young William Miller rules of the journalistic road. Applies equally to politicos:
…they are not your friends. These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars, and they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it.
Guess Carl Cameron didn’t get that memo. Wish I could say it was an anomaly within the Village.
In the meantime? GOP infighting over who is preening too much, whose decisions are hurting whose career and ambition prospects and all sorts of other melodramatic GOP gobbledygook are swirling about the Beltway rumor mill. Or oozing, as the case may be. Restyled and warmed-over Newtie anyone?
Missing from this morass? The needs of the American public. Ambition and machinations trump all. That goes for journalists as much as politicians, doesn’t it?
Anyone for another round of Beltway deja vu?
(H/T to lennonist for the reminder on Lester Bangs.)
Newt really needs to just give it up. Course it would be nice if he started a third party…