20170112 (shouting as leadership)

CNN's Washington bureau chief tries to ask a question of the P-elect
at his semi-annual news conference Wednesday only to be told,  "No
soup for you!"

I’m committed to objective truth

As an axiom of my worldview. 

But it’s getting hard in these

Days of fake news to support

The notion that in our seeing

We see the same things even

With the proviso that we may

Not see things the same. When

Meryl Streep last Sunday

Remarked she saw a man who

Was running for president

Openly mock a disabled reporter

No one raised an objection, 

"No, he wasn’t doing that."

Nor have any of his loyal 

Crew, not even his Wizard 

Of Spin, KellyAnn Conway, 

Come forward offering any

Reasonable alternative. Only

The offender proposed some 

Cockamamie defense about

The victim being flummoxed

By his query to excuse why 

His hands moved oddly about—

Conveying more the reporter’s

Discombobulation, not his 

Disability. “I would never do 

That,” he went on, reinforcing

How in the psychology of lying,

The liar's tell is protracting

Their lie— protesting too much.

That example falls on the plus

Side for objectivity in perception.

Then what do we make of his

Very public meltdown while

Handling an inquiry from CNN’s

Jim Acosta? In the famous words

Of the perspicacious Bart Simpson,

Did he have a cow? Right in front

Of America? We’ve certainly been

Spoiled by the superlative cool of

Obama before the media. Or is this

The kind of thing we should laugh

Off? Ravings of a maniac? Was an 

Adult at the podium? What new

Epoxy holds his last few hairs in

Place while he rants? Did you all

See that? Obviously not the offender

Nor the Newt Gingrich who said

"The reporter . . is . . . an idiot,”

Who should be suspended by 

CNN for sixty days.” Hannity 

Thought the POTUS-E did a 

Commendable job and the Newt

Countered people who behave

Badly [ask impertinent questions]

Must not be allowed in. Have they

Read the first amendment lately?

If anybody in the room should be 

Suspended for sixty days, I’d

Suggest the Ninny-in-Chief who

Cannot maintain his composure

Under stress as the first. I

Thought we saw the same things?

c. J.S.Manista, 2017