tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post5302008958135066201..comments2024-03-26T10:26:51.288-04:00Comments on Jim Leff's Slog: Shakespeare Explains the 2016 ElectionJim Leffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00007232702717055047noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-68752459136227524652017-07-30T00:07:05.175-04:002017-07-30T00:07:05.175-04:00This NYT column never got wider play in large part...This NYT column never got wider play in large part because the NYT has a firewall.<br /><br />Unless you subscribe, you cannot read the piece.<br /><br />I don't subscribe to the Times as a matter of principle:<br /><br />Their defense of Bush's "weapons of mass destruction" myth<br />helped justify the war in Iraq--<br />which, in turn led to real mass destruction.<br /><br />The NYT also set out to demonize Hillary Clinton<br />back in the early 1990's with their exaggerated story<br />which became known as "Whitewater."<br /><br />I have worked at the Times (as an editor) and learned that they<br />print <br />"all the news that fits"<br />their world-view. <br /><br />Maggie Maharhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06174753119025304589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4640470443420164863.post-12969771996942048132016-10-22T22:08:57.641-04:002016-10-22T22:08:57.641-04:00Jim,
For months I have been trying to get my frie...Jim,<br /><br />For months I have been trying to get my friends to understand the election through this metaphor. The problem I find is that anybody who might understand the Shakespearean frame has already committed to one candidate. <br /><br />Why is it that all the people who are horrified by the prospect of Richard III, are in deep denial about the alternative: that having shanked Polonius behind a tapestry in Act II, Lady Macbeth may soon be running the country?<br /><br />I far prefer the grotesque hunchback we know in the daylight, to the bloody-handed poisoner by night, bewitched, unnatural, stabber of her own guards, strangler of children, loyal only to herself. <br /><br />I'm amazed the Obama girls didn't end up drowned in a butt of Malmsey. <br /><br />Bfbjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17520329647882641717noreply@blogger.com