Media vs Trump

by Jack

There are things on NPR that I enjoy listening to, like Radio-lab or the MOTH Hour, but since the election the news has been terrible. Seems like everytime they interview somebody from Washington they slander Trump and I’m about ready to stop listening to NPR.

For example, recently a female news anchor asks this leading question to a guest. “We know Trump was very supportive of Putin throughout his race, do you think this will have a bearing on our foreign policy?” NO WE DON’T KNOW THAT he was supportive of Putin and he didn’t praise him throughout his election! THAT IS FAKE NEWS. During a debate with Hillary Trump said re Putin, “I think that I’ll be able to get along with him.” Early in the race when his rhetoric was pretty hot, he said he thought Putin was a better leader than Obama. Another time he said Putin had, “tight control over his country.” Yes, Putin does have tight control, he’s a former communist hardliner, what would you expect? These are not exactly glowing praises of Putin, as NPR is fond of saying about Trump.

The news media that is unfriendly towards Trump is often guilty of using questions that are really designed to skewer Trump with outrageous innuendo. “Do you see Trump’s election as the end of democracy as we know it?” Or, “Given his racist, bigoted statements of the past and his hatred of women can he….” THESE ARE NOT reporters asking need-to-know questions. These are more like statements posed as questions and designed to get a favorable answer from their far left interviewee. They should be ashamed and I’m glad Trump has the guts to stand before the people and call them evil….because they are. They hate Trump because he won’t cater to them and he’s not a leftists socialist like Obama. Trump also blew Hillary right out of the water, despite their (medias) best efforts to get her elected! So the media has plenty of motive to go after Trump, but if their ratings start to fall, they [might] wise up eventually…key word MIGHT.

I think our biased fake news agencies are doing more to divide this nation than they are to hurt Trump. Trump can take it too, but I don’t think I can. I’m about to boycott all of them.

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21 Responses to Media vs Trump

  1. Libby says:

    Jack, google “Trump quotes in support of Putin”. Is every single one of those news sources lying to you? The International Business Times?

    All this denial is getting you and Tina nowhere. You can climb into a hole and pull the hole in after you … Trump still has spent the last eighteen months admiring Pooty. He flat out said that if Pooty moved on another Baltic State he didn’t care. One of the many probable reasons why The Twitter Lord feels his business is none of our business is that he’s in debt to Russian oligarchs.

    The man is a disaster on too many issues to count … but you just enjoy your sojourn in the hole.

  2. No Longer Deplorable J Soden says:

    Used to watch Gov Reagan’s press conferences, but when the media reported on them Reagan’s words were always twisted 180 degrees. (Oops, I’m telling my age!)

    Same thing today with the Moron Media Presstitutes – and we all know who they are. And now we hear about “fake news,” but it seems like that the MM Presstitutes can’t deliver anything BUT fake news!
    Words for the wise: Consider The Source!

    • Libby says:

      I was just thinking that very thing. All through those God-awful Reagan years, every time the fourth estate had the temerity to point out the bad effects of Reagan policy, you claimed they were harping on “bad” news, and now it’s “fake” news, and very little changes with you folk, does it? That’s conservative, all right.

      • Tina says:

        Several major stories loom large from the Reagan years:

        Reagan would send us into WWIII…couldn’t be trusted with his finger on the button…the man played a huge part in, bringing down the wall in Germany, ending the cold war, freeing peoples of many nations, and signing an agreement to destroy nuclear weapons and the fake news made sure he was never credited for any of it…he remained an “amiable dunce” to the fake news MSM.

        Reagan cut taxes promising it would unleash the entrepreneurial spirit and economic vibrancy. They called his plan Reaganomics and swore “trickle down” would not work…they continue the lie to this day!

        Reagan was blamed for the homeless situation in America, although the roots of it began in 1956 when the psychiatric community convinced politicians to release some patients from mental facilities…schizophrenics for instance. The homeless remained a front news story every day of his presidency. The very minute Clinton was elected the homeless stories disappeared from the front pages despite the fact that the situation had not changed. In this case we had homeless people but the fake part was they were used to destroy in one case and ignored in the other. That’s a manipulation of news for political outcomes.

        The left stream media has been corrupted since the early sixties. They were unchallenged for several decades. Thank God they are being challenged now.

    • Peggy says:

      Out of curiosity I watched the ABC national news last night. It was so filled with anti-Trump commentary it is no wonder people are acting like bratty kids who didn’t get their participation trophy. Trump was presented as the anti-Christ trying to obtain entrance into the heaves again. Or better yet, an illegal from our southern border claiming the right of passage. The hypocrisy is astounding.

      How will the media act if Kissinger’s predictions (I posted elsewhere.) are fulfilled? If they and the Dems don’t want to facilitate their own demises they’d better change and listen to their consumers and voters.

      • Tina says:

        Peggy you and I have watched the media for decades. they have not changed their stripes in all of that time. Too many of them are true believers in the socialist nirvana.

        They have already facilitated their demise, they just don’t know it yet. Just read the NYT, the so-called paper of record, just gave up eight floors in their building and will rent them out to others to make some money…they’ve been failing for years.

        Right now TV anchors in the alphabets are playing to the sore loser crowd so their viewership is up a bit. It won’t last. They are making absolute fools of themselves.

  3. Peggy says:

    The media will eventually loose Jack, because the majority of us are not as stupid as they think. This election just like the 2010, 2012 and 2014 are proof voters aren’t buying the media and Dems lies.

    The New York Times has been holding meetings with professional people on turning around their decline. But, based on the report they are having to close down floors and rent them out to generate some income is a sign it may be too little to late.

    New York Times Will Vacate 8 Floors In Its HQ To Generate “Significant Rental Revenue”:

    “Remember when The NYT reported that its ad hoc campaign to boost revenue by selling subscriptions in response to the vicious back and forth with Donald Trump, was said to be a smashing success? Perhaps it was subscriptions for the crossword puzzle because it appears the monetary success was not smashing enough, and according to a just released note from executives Arthur Sulzberger and Mark Thompson, the newspaper will vacate at least eight floors in its iconic building, allowing it to “generate significant rental income” because it is “frankly, too expensive to occupy this many floors when we don’t truly need them.”
    Maybe the lesson here is that when the newspaper business model no longer works, one can just pivot into a REIT?

    The remaining staff will be consolidated on the remaining, redesigned floors in a “more dynamic, modern and open workplace, one that is better suited to the moment.”

    Furthermore, the NYT publisher and CEO will lose their corner offices, which they call a “vestige from a different era” and will “introduce more team rooms and common spaces.”

    It is unclear if NYT would distribute pink slips as part of the cost-cutting effort, however as the letter adds, “in the end, these changes will impact every employee at 620 Eighth Ave. In the near term, we will have to move about 400 employees out of the building to nearby office space while the first phase of work is completed. We expect that group, which includes parts of marketing, technology, the newsroom, news services, corporate finance and print products and services pre-press operations, to move in the first quarter and return by the end of 2017. Your manager will notify you if your position is affected by this temporary move. We understand and appreciate the disruption this will inevitably cause and we will do everything in our power to mitigate it.”
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-16/new-york-time-will-vacate-8-floors-its-headquarters-generate-significant-rental-reve

  4. Peggy says:

    Two news items worth sharing.

    From “Face the Nation” –
    Kissinger calls Trump a ‘phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen’:

    Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump could go down in history as a “very considerable president.”

    “Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven’t seen,” Kissinger said on CBS’s “Face The Nation.”

    “So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office. At the same time, extraordinary opportunity.”

    Kissinger said every country now has to consider two things.

    “One, their perception that the previous president, or the outgoing president, basically withdrew America from international politics, so that they had to make their own assessments of their necessities,” he said.

    “And secondly, that here is a new president who’s asking a lot of unfamiliar questions. And because of the combination of the partial vacuum and the new questions, one could imagine that something remarkable and new emerges out of it.”

    When asked if he has a sense about the president-elect’s emerging foreign policy vision, Kissinger said he and the billionaire appear to operate differently, but offered some praise for the issues Trump has raised.

    “I think he operates by a kind of instinct that is a different form of analysis as my more academic one,” Kissinger said.

    “But he’s raised a number of issues that I think are important, very important. And if they’re addressed properly, could lead to good – great results.”
    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kissinger-calls-trump-a-phenomenon-that-foreign-countries-havent-seen/ar-AAlIfTK?OCID=ansmsnnews11

    From the New York Post –
    Time to face reality, Obama — Trump is going to be president:

    “So this is how it ends — in a whimper wrapped in self-pity and recriminations. With President Obama on the defensive at his final press conference and Hillary Clinton’s last campaign event resembling a wake, the Democratic Party is limping off the stage and into the political winter.

    It was supposed to sit atop the national power pyramid for decades, a new paradigm of liberals, progressives, the young, the old, the unions and blacks, Latinos, Muslims and Asians.

    The torch would be passed from Obama to Clinton, a liberal Supreme Court would vastly expand executive power and the regulatory state would enforce climate-change orthodoxy on all industry and elitist dictates on every American. Globalism would be the new patriotism.

    But a funny thing happened on the way to one-party dominance: The people who work for a living said no, hell no. Their revolt brings Donald Trump to the White House amid hopes of a revival of the economy and of the American spirit.

    Thoroughly beaten, the Dems are at their lowest point in nearly a century. From the White House to Congress to statehouses, they are on the outside looking in.

    ….. Because they are doomed to fail, we could be witnessing the death throes of the Democratic Party as we know it. With Obama and the Clintons encouraging the attempted theft of an election they lost and failing to denounce intimidation and death threats against Trump electoral voters, most Americans have reason to consider the Dems a dead letter.

    …. Obama leaves office with Russia, Iran and China eating our lunch, with the Chinese theft of a Navy drone a goodbye insult. The unspeakable horror of Syria and the rise of the Islamic State will forever be part of the 44th president’s legacy.

    So too will be domestic divisions, which grew more stark and bitter in the last eight years. We are now perilously close to a boil, and that too falls partially on Obama’s shoulders given his fear-mongering about Trump.

    Against that dark reality, it is reasonable to worry the nation is on the verge of a crack-up. But there is also a possibility that America is on the verge of a new greatness.
    It’s up to Trump. The ultimate outsider and a historic disrupter, he bears some responsibility for the polarization. But victory presents him with an opportunity to make government work for the people, instead of the other way around.”
    http://nypost.com/2016/12/18/time-to-face-reality-obama-trump-is-going-to-be-president/

    Be sure to check out the DeBlasio article too.

    • Libby says:

      “Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in an interview Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump could go down in history as a “very considerable president.”

      Praise indeed, coming from an indicted war criminal. Did you know that if Henry ever sets foot on the Continent, he’s likely to be arrested and packed off to The Hague? Put’s a crimp in his travel plans, I dare say.

      • Peggy says:

        Oh there you go again Libs telling lies and spreading more Fake News. Other than fictional writings there is nothing that indicates Kissinger was charged with any indictments for war crimes. There were two civil suits brought by family members in Chile that were dismissed by the judge before the trial. If you have proof of Kissinger’s indictment provide it!

        If Kissinger ever is charged with war crimes then his good friend Hillary should be charged too for all of the crimes against humanity she’s committed in Libya, Iraq and Syria, just to name a few. And we do have to give her full credit for the 200 girls taken in Nigeria by Boko Haram, most of which are still captures and sex slaves today.

        Oh Libby you are just so much fun to prove wrong. Turns out he not only set one foot on this continent he’s had both feet here all along since he left office. In fact he met with Trump just a couple of weeks ago. Once again, it was all there in Wikipedia. You know that biased liberal provider of facts.

        From liberal Wikipedia.

        “Kissinger’s record was brought up during the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries. Hillary Clinton has cultivated a close relationship with Kissinger, describing him as a “friend” and a source of “counsel.”[132] During the Democratic Primary Debates, Clinton touted[133] Kissinger’s praise for her record as Secretary of State.[134] In response, candidate Bernie Sanders issued a critique of Kissinger’s foreign policy, declaring: “I am proud to say that Henry Kissinger is not my friend. I will not take advice from Henry Kissinger.”[135]”

        Kissinger in the US timeline –

        “Kissinger was then appointed to Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic and International Studies.[95] He taught at Georgetown’s Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service for several years in the late 1970s. In 1982, with the help of a loan from the international banking firm of E.M. Warburg, Pincus and Company,[25] Kissinger founded a consulting firm, Kissinger Associates, and is a partner in affiliate Kissinger McLarty Associates with Mack McLarty, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton.[96] He also serves on the board of directors of Hollinger International, a Chicago-based newspaper group,[97] and as of March 1999, was a director of Gulfstream Aerospace.[98]

        From 1995 to 2001, Kissinger served on the board of directors for Freeport-McMoRan, a multinational copper and gold producer with significant mining and milling operations in Papua, Indonesia.[99] In February 2000, then-president of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid appointed Kissinger as a political advisor. He also serves as an honorary advisor to the United States-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce.

        From 2000–2006, Kissinger served as chairman of the board of trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships. In 2006, upon his departure from Eisenhower Fellowships, he received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Leadership and Service.[100]
        In November 2002, he was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the newly established National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States to investigate the September 11 attacks.[101] Kissinger stepped down as chairman on December 13, 2002 rather than reveal his business client list, when queried about potential conflicts of interest.[102]

        Kissinger—along with William Perry, Sam Nunn, and George Shultz—has called upon governments to embrace the vision of a world free of nuclear weapons, and in three Wall Street Journal op-eds proposed an ambitious program of urgent steps to that end. The four have created the Nuclear Security Project to advance this agenda. In 2010, the four were featured in a documentary film entitled “Nuclear Tipping Point”. The film is a visual and historical depiction of the ideas laid forth in the Wall Street Journal op-eds and reinforces their commitment to a world without nuclear weapons and the steps that can be taken to reach that goal.

        On 17 November 2016, Kissinger met with President Elect Donald Trump during which they discussed “China, Russia, Iran, the EU and other events and issues around the world”.[103]”

        • Libby says:

          The French summons was what I was thinking of:

          On 31 May 2001, French judge Roger Le Loire requested that a summons be served on Henry Kissinger while he was staying at the Hôtel Ritz in Paris. Le Loire wanted to question the statesman as a witness regarding alleged U.S. involvement in Operation Condor and for possible US knowledge concerning the “disappearances” of five French nationals in Chile during military rule. Kissinger left Paris that evening, and Loire’s inquiries were directed to the U.S. State Department.[87]

          In July 2001, the Chilean high court granted investigating judge Juan Guzmán the right to question Kissinger about the 1973 killing of American journalist Charles Horman. (His execution by the Chilean military after the coup was dramatized in the 1982 Costa-Gavras film, Missing.) The judge’s questions were relayed to Kissinger via diplomatic routes but were not answered.[88]

          In August 2001, Argentine Judge Rodolfo Canicoba sent a letter rogatory to the US State Department, in accordance with the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), requesting a deposition by Kissinger to aid the judge’s investigation of Operation Condor.[89] On 10 September 2001, a civil suit was filed in a Washington, D.C., federal court by the family of Gen. René Schneider, murdered former Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army, asserting that Kissinger ordered Schneider’s murder because he refused to endorse plans for a military coup. Schneider was killed by coup-plotters loyal to General Roberto Viaux in a botched kidnapping attempt. As part of the suit, Schneider’s two sons filed for civil damages against Kissinger and then-CIA director Richard Helms for $3 million.[90][91][92]

          On 16 February 2007, a request for the extradition of Kissinger was filed at the Supreme Court of Uruguay on behalf of Bernardo Arnone, a political activist who was kidnapped, tortured and disappeared by the dictatorial regime in 1976.[93]

          ***

          So you’re right, a summons is not a warrant, but why do you suppose he high-tailed if for the airport?

          Nasty man.

          • Peggy says:

            Like I said he’s no different than Hillary, yet you defend her every move. Including the four men she left to die in Benghazi and the hundreds of thousands if not millions that are dying and fleeing Syria that are the direct results of her’s and Obama’s crimes against humanity and messing with ousting the leaders of other countries.

            If there’s an indictment issued it should be against her.

            Nastier woman!

  5. Tina says:

    Jack I googled “Secretary Hillary Clinton Putin” and guess what came up from the Washington Post no less? The article is titled, “The roots of the hostility between Putin and Clinton,” and reveals how Hillary brought all of this on herself. A few excerpts:

    Russian President Vladimir Putin repeatedly accused Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state of interfering in Moscow’s affairs — and if Russian security was behind last week’s release through WikiLeaks of the hacked Democratic National Committee emails, it would look a lot like Kremlin payback. …

    In December 2011, large protests unexpectedly broke out in Moscow following parliamentary elections that featured brazen cheating. Clinton, as secretary of state, called the election “neither free nor fair,” …

    Clinton had also pushed hard for the Libya intervention in the spring and summer of 2011, which Putin was appalled by, seeing it as unwarranted interference in another nation’s sovereignty. …

    Charap says it unlikely that the Kremlin was responsible for the release of the DNC emails — the hacking, yes, but not the release, because it seems out of character. Still, he said, Russian officials could say, “ ‘This is what the U.S. does everywhere. You guys have been training opposition activists for years.

    Tell me about it…the democrats have an well funded activist army.

    Her own post state speeches show she attempted to suck up to Putin:

    Though Hillary Clinton has bashed Donald Trump over his alleged fondness for Russia, excerpts from her purported post-State Department speeches in the WikiLeaks files show she also sought “a positive relationship” with Moscow and praised President Vladimir Putin as recently as 2014.

    Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, called Putin “engaging” and said he was a “very interesting conversationalist” in some of those speech excerpts, which were revealed when WikiLeaks began releasing alleged emails belonging to Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta.

    “I would love it if we could continue to build a more positive relationship with Russia,” Clinton said during a speech to Goldman Sachs on June 4, 2013. In the same speech, Clinton said “obviously we would very much like to have a positive relationship with Russia and we would like to see Putin be less defensive toward a relationship with the United States so that we could work together on some issues.” …

    …“I sat next to [Putin]. He’s an engaging and, you know, very interesting conversationalist,” she told international trade consultant Sanford Bernstein on May 29, 2013. “We talked about a lot of issues that were not the hot-button issues between us.”

    Clinton went into detail during remarks to the Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago on Oct. 28, 2013.

    “In terms of interesting, Vladimir Putin is always interesting,” she said. “You’re never quite sure what he’s going to do or say next, and he’s always – he walks around with, you know, a redwood chip on his shoulder defending and promoting, you know, Mother Russia. So he and I have had our interesting moments.”

    Later in the speech, Clinton recalled bonding with Putin over his interest in protecting tiger habitats.

    “One time, I was visiting with him in his dacha outside of Moscow, and he was going on and on, you know, just listing all of the problems that he thinks are caused by the United States,” Clinton said. “… I said, ‘You know, Mr. Prime Minister, we actually have some things in common. We both want to protect wildlife, and I know how committed you are to protecting the tiger.’ I mean, all of a sudden, he sat up straight and his eyes got big and he goes, ‘You care about the tiger?’”

    Clinton said Putin then took her into his “private inner sanctum” and began showing her a huge map of Russia, pointing out “the habitat of the tigers and the habitat of the seals and the whales.”

    The phony positions of the left are to be found in nearly everything they do. If anyone should jump into the massive hole they’ve dug and pull it in over them it is our friends on the left.

    Libby you can wield the shovel; you’re an expert at shoveling the excrement.

  6. Harold says:

    If your of a liberal mindset and continuing to doing what you do best, which is, blame someone else for your failures, then you haven’t learned a dang thing.

    The Media hasn’t corrected their mistake of fake news, and it seems the leadership of the DNC party is in that same sinking ship.

    Obama has blamed any and everything he can, well that is but his own parties failure, they will never own up to their mistakes, and that’s where is starts. Even though Clinton was a house hold name, automatic winner, a shoe in if you will against a fractioned GOP seeking answers as well (actually they didn’t do such a great job either) and therefore both the media nor the liberal party were campaigning on any real issues that are facing America. Just a bunch of personial attacks, actually both of them, but Trump also talked to the American workers as well.

    The DNC failure starts with the economy, and paralleled with more Government regulations, wasn’t what the inner states wanted to hear. It might have been enough for the elitist coastal populous to accept, but never addressing the problems of a hard working middle America was their downfall, along with Clinton and her problems.

    Their party platform of ignoring Jobs, recognizing the frustration with the failures of Obama with his continued acceptance of “illegal migration” (what a PC BS label) and calling for more layers of restrictive anti freedom gun rights through duplication of regulations. But in my opinion and dumbest (or most crippling) was supporting a candidate that labeled hard working blue color Americans as “deplorable” given the fact that Clinton has more baggage (political) than a major airline handles on any given day, nope they ignored all that and it was not what America was willing to support.

    A margin of 2.5 million votes could be challenged by multiple votes and non legal voters and the dead ones who voted as well, and add in ballot box counting mistakes, all that may very well have been a swing in Trumps favor of the popular vote. Who knows?

  7. No Longer Deplorable J Soden says:

    The Electoral College has spoken. Congratulations to President-Elect Trump and Vice President Pence!
    January 20th can’t come soon enough!

  8. Libby says:

    Oh, Geez …

    http://www.salon.com/2016/12/18/donald-trumps-questionable-intelligence-all-those-false-claims-about-his-academic-record-and-derision-of-others-bespeak-profound-insecurity/

    … but these are the “Aarrrrgggh!@#^!@#&*%^#&!!” paragraphs:

    Trump’s father — whose name had been besmirched in New York real estate circles after investigations into windfall profits and other abuses in his real estate projects — was an essential silent partner in Trump’s initiative. In effect, the son was the front man, relying on his father’s connections and wealth, while his father stood silently in the background to avoid drawing attention to himself.

    Fred Trump’s real estate fortune was hardly due to his faith in the free market, but instead stemmed from his reliance on government subsidies. He made his money building middle-class apartments financed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). In 1954, when Donald was 8 years old, his father was subpoenaed to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on allegations that he had ripped off the government to reap windfall profits through his FHA-insured housing developments. At the hearings, the elder Trump was called on the carpet for profiteering off public contracts, including overestimating the construction costs of his projects in order to get larger mortgages from FHA. Under oath, he reluctantly admitted that he had wildly overstated the development costs.

    ***

    If there is a way to rip us off, and make themselves rich … these damned Republican “entrepreneurs” will find it.

    • Tina says:

      Salon should include at least a modicum of evidence if it’s going to write such a story. Could they not reprint a transcript or something?

      Obama destroyed the middle class. I can’t think of anything more”rip off” than that!

  9. Harold says:

    The dictionary defines “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

    The word “post-” when used as prefix doesn’t mean “after” so much as it implies an atmosphere/closed mindset in which any fact is irrelevant — with liberals who seem to be led by the current fake news media, even after the actual facts be known, who is to say they will accept an opposing word for it?

    Their hunt for justification of how they view the current turn of events in a Alinsky like determination only prevents them from improvement in future like situations. not to mention their continued denial of having to accept the results of events in a adult manner, hence the expression “Special Snowflake” applies.

  10. Harold says:

    But wait there is help for those Special Snowflakes, so before they turn into tearful whining crybabies, or even melt away, with your help some may recover.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9-5fYFjrbs

  11. RHT447 says:

    Some more “fake news”. Heh. Enjoy.

    Notes from a Lost America: Chuckie Manson, Thor, and the Ark. Average Day in California
    Posted on December 22, 2016 by Fred Reed
    _________________________________
    This is a reprint of a column from long, long ago. I do it not from laziness, though I am fond of laziness, but because it may provide a window into a happier America that we will not see again. These days, we need any cheer we can get.

    In the year of the Great Radioactive Goat-Curd Craze and Flood-that-Wasn’t, Matamoscas was just another sleepy California town in the high desert near Barstow. The only geographical feature of note anywhere near was a low mesa called Las Pulgas, about three miles out of town where the Ark was.

    About a year before, a peyote-enhanced guru named Mahmud al Gravid, who looked like Charles Manson but probably wasn’t, had descended on the town with his followers. Gravid had the deeply spiritual look that comes of minor brain damage and exposure to Los Angeles. His followers were scrofulous late-adolescents with love beads. Being teenagers, they thought the world had been invented yesterday and they were the only ones who knew anything about it, especially as regarded matters spiritual. They said they were in Matamoscas to find themselves. It was a good place to look, because that was where they were.

    Anyway, Gravid had received from on high a notification that a Great Flood would soon wash away the world, beginning for reasons not immediately obvious with Matamoscas. Gravid and his lemmings were to prepare by building an Ark on Las Pulgas, made of cubits. They weren’t sure what cubits were, but figured they would find them in the desert. It didn’t hold together Biblically. They didn’t know it, so it didn’t matter.

    Anyway, they built an Ark that would have foundered in a heavy dew and awaited the flood.

    For California the idea wasn’t peculiar enough to stand out from the background, so the locals mostly drove around in pickups and drank beer in the town’s only bar and ignored the seers out on the mountain. Given the way the Coast was pulling down the aquifers, they weren’t really worried about a flood. They would have started one if they had known how.

    Then Otto Swedenborg, a huge square-shouldered Scowegian meatball out of Minnesota, had roared in on a Harley hog with a little trailer in tow. He looked like Thor and had eyes the color of swimming pools. The trailer contained pickle jars of Radioactive Goat-Curd, he said, which would cure anything, and make one’s aura resonate with the inner force of being. He had discovered it while raising goats in land containing uranium ore. Ten bucks.

    The locals needed radioactive goat curd like they needed a third elbow, so they sent him to the mountain. They figured nuts rolled uphill, and there was no other hill around.

    Gravid apparently saw Swedenborg as a threat to his position as alpha-guru. In the ensuing tension one of the followers said the hell with it and went back to L.A., where her father was big with CBS. A camera truck duly showed up at Las Pulgas. The whole kit and caboodle were on national television that night, auras resonating. Swedenborg got thirty seconds to expound the virtues of his goatish pudding.

    The results were astonishing and unexpected. Goat curd took hold of the Californian imagination. First a trickle and then a flood of seekers of enlightenment began to show up in Matamoscas. They were a cross-section of the state: vegetarians, Hare Krishnas, sun-worshipers, fruit-juice drinkers, Ethical Culturists, and a residue of the Orgone Box movement. There were coked-up aspiring movie stars who had believed the desert was a large beach, and Valley Girls who thought the whole idea was groovy to the max. Matamoscas was overrun.

    Having manufactured the event, television also covered it. A reporter asked a slack-jawed blonde beachboy, who seemed to have the IQ of a shinplaster, how he felt about the new spiritual order.

    “Well, I, like, you know, I think it’s really true.”

    “What’s true?”

    “I’m not sure.”

    Swedenborg did land-office business in radioactive goat-curd. In fact, he ran out the first day, and resorted to selling jars of mayonnaise from the local grocery, after taking the labels off. The price went up like taxes in a Democratic administration. When asked how to use the curd to greatest inner advantage, he said to let it age for a week, and then rub it liberally over the entire body. The customer presumably ended up looking like a frankfurter in search of a roll.

    There was talk of building a theme park in Matamoscas based on goat curd, as well as a hotel with a golf course, and a factory to turn out soy-based curd-substitute. Several hotel chains expressed interest. Investors were sought to buy a reactor. Swedenborg was offered a high position that didn’t require that he be able to do anything. Matamoscas was On Its Way.

    Then ABC, concerned about its slide in the ratings, reported that in the cliffs along Route 101-A, out of San Francisco, a rock formation had been found that was an unmistakable likeness of Che Guevara. It glowed in the dark and wept tears of proletarian solidarity, said a professor of psychiatry from Berkeley. He had discovered the likeness while processing his issues among the rocks with the help of some really dynamite mescaline. You could just feel the essence of Che trying to communicate some message of importance to all mankind.

    Next morning, Matamoscas was empty. The spiritual freight train had moved on. Swedenborg left with his remaining jars of mayonnaise. Gravid and his followers vanished. The locals went back to driving around in pickups and drinking beer at the bar. The Ark is still there.

    None of this happened. But it’s all true.

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