The Evening News. My television is again awash with a blithering politician, blissfully framed by a network camera operator in center-screen, a tiny funnel-shaped mouth raving about the next country it may bomb. A quick edit to the Capitol building, and the first soulless rant is immediately followed by thick, gushing platitudes as another elected official’s representative owns up to the fact that his minions have photoshopped separate pictures to make it seem that two mortal enemies of his boss were conspiratorially shaking hands. He is asked why he falsified the record. “All pictures are photoshopped these days,” is his answer.
Lies and demagoguery, of course, have indeed become the norm in 2017. “It’s dirty out there,” said one US Senator after the recent “nuclear” vote. Indeed.
