I call him .... OreO Obama.... aka Silly Vanilli...
nominal9
On Sep 5, 10:20 am, Georges Metanomski <[email protected]> wrote:
> NOTE: Due to IMO general interest of the issue I post the present to
> several lists. The Village Idiot en chef of the Village Idiots list
> will perhaps ask, who is Richard.
> So, Richard is a good friend, a sound physicist, philosopher and
> writer with whom we have friendly quarrels stemming mainly from the
> fact that he is thoroughly educated and I have no education at all.
> ==================
> G old:
> I got a lot of reactions (to my "Obama in Wonderland").
> Certain called it poignant satire and I found it most gratifying,
> others suggested additionally some supplements, which I
> considered with appreciation. But many qualified it (arbitrarily of
> course) as absurdity, calumny, defamation and scandalmongering.
> I thank them from all my heart; I intended my "Obama" to be
> a ecrit a scandale and they prove that I'm not far off the mark.
> =================
> Richard:
>
> Georges,
>
> I am not sufficiently insightful and certainly do not know you well enough
> to have see the Obama piece anything other than a screed against him. Next
> time,
> if there is one, I will be more aware of the possibility that you are not
> being very serious.
> ===================
> G:
> And you will be right. I'm never serious. Being serious means being
> mentally - and often physically - dressed as a butler, never quitting
> the tie and the bowler hat only to put on a topper when referring to
> such Presidents as Carter or Obama and to such Nobel Prizes as
> Al Gore or Arafat. As I don't possess - neither metaphorically nor
> literally - any ties, bowler hats or toppers, I could not be serious,
> even if I wanted.
>
> All I endeavor is to be sincere, i.e. to act in good faith and not to
> lie to myself.
>
> Now, that in no way opposes "ecrit a scandale". This French term has
> nothing to do with "feuille-" or "presse a scandale", but denotes
> any writing intending to stir up scandals in order to get more
> publicity, wider public and stronger impact.
>
> P.G.Woodehouse writes in "Cocktail Time":
>
> -Just as all American publishers hope that if they are good and lead
> upright lives, their books will be banned in Boston, so do all English
> publishers pray that theirs will be denounced from the pulpit by a
> bishop. Full statistics are not to hand, but it is estimated by
> competent judges that a good bishop denouncing from the pulpit with
> the right organ note in his voice, can add between ten and fifteen
> thousand to the sales.-
>
> One step higher is to get indicted and risk condemnation for
> slander or defamation.
>
> The best example and the most famous "ecrit a scandale" is Zola's
> "J'accuse". He risked prison, but saved Dreyfus from rabid
> anti-Semites.
>
> If I get in trouble for defaming Obama, Islamism or the nymphomaniac
> E. Roosevelt, it will be a small price for getting a chance to
> contribute a bit to save Israel and the West from concurrent rabid
> anti-human Islamism.
>
> Georges.
>
> ===================
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