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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, September 1, 2024

September 1, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

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From Clay Jones, who writes: “A good friend of mine drives a Tesla. He’s liberal and hates Elon Musk but to his credit, he doesn’t try to justify owning a Tesla. He loves it. I rode in his Tesla and I hate to admit it, but it’s nice. I would love it too, just not the ick factor that comes with it. […] If you don’t like your cybertruck, too bad because there’s a clause forbidding owners from reselling within the first year. If you do sell it, Elon may sue you to get the money you sold it for, which could lead you to losing $100,000. Elon is selling these trucks like he’s selling Trump. It’s expensive for the nation, you can’t get rid of it, and it’s ugly. Neither Trump nor the cybertruck are more attractive than Kamala Harris, although for some weird reason, Trump claims he is.” (You can subscribe to the full Clay Jones here.)
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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Sunday Night: Partly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

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Today at a Glance:

Storywalk with Parker The Pelican, 7 a.m. at Palm Coast’s Linear Park, 31 Greenway Court, Palm Coast, beginning at the Linear Park trailhead and continuing onto St. Joe Walkway, the StoryWalk® features kiosks spread over a half-mile that contain the pages of a themed story. Families can walk the trail and enjoy the story, combining literacy and time in nature. There is a very special anniversary-themed story for September, StoryWalk with Parker the Pelican, that will take you through the history of Palm Coast.

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.

Yael ZaZa Flamenca, 11 a.m. at Casa Monica Resort & Spa, Autograph Collection, 95 Cordova St, 32084, St. Augustine, St. Augustine.






Editorial notebook: In 1962 the American historian Daniel Boorstin published The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, a book that analyzing the replacement of news with the packaging of manufactured news events, from so-called “press releases,” better referred to as handouts, to “press conferences,” to other productions manipulating the press to predetermined end. It’s gotten much worse since. “In 1947,” he wrote, “there were about twice as many government press agents engaged in preparing news releases as there were newsmen gathering them in.” If you just look at Flagler County, a few of the local governments or agencies–Palm Coast, the county, the sheriff, the school board–have no fewer than a dozen people in their “marketing and communications” divisions between them, or about three times the number of reporters seriously covering the county. We daily swim in floods of “releases” and manufactured events anywhere you look, not just locally. The Kamala Harris interview on CNN a few days ago was, primarily, one of those pseudo events. It should not have been news. An interview with a presidential candidate should not in and of itself be the news. It should be routine, an almost everyday thing, front-paged only by the outfit that may have that day’s interview, if even then. Woodrow Wilson had his issues as a president, but he literally allowed the public to walk in and out of the executive branches and the White House to see officials in action, and instituted the first press conferences: “At 12:45 on March 15, 1913,” A. Scott Berg writes in his 2013 biography of Wilson, “the Wilson Administration made history when it established what would become a convention of the Presidency. That Saturday afternoon, [presidential secretary Joseph] Tumulty ushered 125 members of the press corps into Wilson’s office; and for the first time, a President held a White House press conference. Wilson was hardly the first President to talk to a journalist, indeed, Taft met occasionally with newspapermen after hours and granted them a few minutes of questions; and TR cherry-picked members of his “newspaper cabinet,” allowing them to transcribe what he chose to dictate. To promote government transparency, Wilson announced that he intended to schedule regular conferences at which any journalist could ask whatever he wanted.” FDR and LBJ were always surrounded by reporters, though each also waged war on the press in his own way (as did Obama). Even Trump, for that matter, though he surrounds himself with sycophants. Still. He’s doing a better job of granting access than Harris, who’s moved into the cocoon Biden lived in for the duration of the 2020 campaign, with Covid as his excuse. She has no excuse. She’s hiding, which is a shame. The CNN interview was not enlightening, other than to highlight the distance between her and the press, what’s left of it, and the arrogance of candidates we now accept as normal. Of course Harris is the better candidate. That’s not in question. Amoebas and bacteria are better candidates than Trump. But if Harris is defeated, as still appears to be more likely than not, this distance, this Clintonian arrogance we thought she was past, will be among the reasons.

—P.T.

 

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The American citizen thus lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its original. We hardly dare face our bewilderment, because our ambiguous experience is so pleasantly iridescent, and the solace of belief in contrived reality is so thoroughly real. We have become eager accessories to the great hoaxes of the age. These are the hoaxes we play on ourselves. Pseudo-events from their very nature tend to be more interesting and more attractive than spontaneous events. Therefore in American public life today pseudo-events tend to drive all other kinds of events out of our consciousness, or at least to overshadow them. Earnest, well-informed citizens seldom notice that their experience of spontaneous events is buried by pseudo-events. Yet nowadays, the more industriously they work at “informing” themselves the more this tends to be true.

–From Daniel Boorstin’s The Image (1962).

 

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  1. Ed P says

    September 1, 2024 at 7:08 am

    And the beat goes on. Prior to 2022 Elon was a left wing media darling. As his views changed and the shine rubbed off the liberal agenda, he evolved and changed his views. But just like VP Harris, he didn’t change his core values. He’s a hump and she’s a hero?
    Anyone else see the hypocrisy?
    Guessing someone like Cardi B (artist who wrote and sang WAP) is a better endorsement when picking a world leader.

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  2. Pogo says

    September 1, 2024 at 9:35 am

    @FWIW

    Harris-Walz will win the popular vote by millions of votes — just as Clinton did. If a social disease incarnate presides over the demise of the human race, it will be entirely the Pyrrhic victory of spoilers (they know who they are) and the electoral college; for the third time in 24 years.

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  3. Ray W. says

    September 1, 2024 at 4:49 pm

    No, Ed P, it seems that you might be the only one who has manufactured hypocrisy on this point.

    She learned and got better. He learned and got worse. Apples and oranges. Nice try, though. Don’t give up.

    Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe she learned and got better, and he learned and got less better.

    Wait, she learned and stayed the same and he fooled himself and never learned anything.

    Perhaps the two events are completely unrelated and therefore incomparable.

    Wait a second. Maybe both got worse, but she got less worse.

    Or he never had any core values at all, and she never had to learn anything.

    Maybe he never was a left-wing media darling; he was never anything more than a moderate Democratic darling.

    So long as you overreach, the options will keep flooding in.

    You might be right about Cardi B.

    Oy, vey.

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  4. Jim says

    September 2, 2024 at 6:41 am

    I don’t think Cardi B’s endorsement is any better than Elon’s.
    I do think a guy who can give $45M/month to a campaign does require much more scrutiny though.
    Now, if we could get all the PAC money out of campaigns, I’d be willing to just ignore both of them.

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  5. Ed P says

    September 2, 2024 at 6:13 pm

    Ray W,
    But did Elon get worse or less better? We may get a chance to test your view should VP Harris win. If she does win, I hope you are correct. History is like that, isn’t it?

  6. Sherry says

    September 4, 2024 at 7:38 pm

    Right On, Jim!

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