In the course of my meanderings around the web-o-sphere this rainy weekend, as I successfully avoided any-and-all coverage of the royal wedding, I came across a piece from Vanity Fair. I don’t think of the magazine, given its title, as a source of anything authoritative, although others seem to think it might offer insight into current culture and fashion. I was perplexed as to why this article was even published until a little research showed it fit into the 24/7/365 Trump derangement syndrome of its author, made obvious by the title, “Bill Gates: Trump is even dumber than you thought,” categorized under the webzine’s business section, with the very professional subsection/pre-title of “Dear God.” Bear with me…
I will stop and ask you, dear reader, if you know the difference between HIV and HPV? Good for you if you do. The article notes that Gates was speaking at an event held at the Gates’ foundation where Gates is alleged to have said that Trump asked him on two separate occasions if there was a difference between the two afflictions. Apparently, this makes Trump especially dumb in the eyes of Gates and this hit-piece author. Remember, this was in the business section.
I will admit it is puzzling, perhaps dumb, that Trump would ask Gates for medical information, although one might think there was probably an implied understanding that it was a private conversation and would remain so. That was dumb. Better if he had publicly asked Obama the same question in the Oval Office when he had opportunity during their photo-op session immediately before Trump’s inauguration. I’m sure the all-knowing, Ivy-educated, professorial predecessor/wizard/sage inhaler would, as his last official act, had his staff tee-up a presidential wizard-quality answer on the ever-present teleprompter, the mystical 8-ball source of said sage’s savant-like sagacity.
We can only hope that the administration staffers responsible for tarnishing the vaunted veneer of the Venerated One were summarily fired for their obvious dereliction and gross incompetence for 1) failing to ensure that the speech contained phonetic spellings and for 2) failing to update to the latest available, state-of-the-art, pronounce-o-prompter (kudos to David Freddoso at Washington Examiner). And it wasn’t the only time, either (slide to the 7:20 mark).
For more frivolity and idle amusement on this topic, and others such as presidential use or non-use of condoms, you can read the Vanity Fair article here. Just keep repeating to yourself that this is in the business section.
While we’re on the topic of inhaling, mental states and intellectual insufficiency, I thought I might take a crack at delving into this perplexing pox upon our political houses. Let’s have a look at an example of the quality of just one who presently roams the halls of Congress, courtesy of the enlightened electorate of the 4th Congressional district of Georgia (I know it’s hard to believe, but we’re talking Georgia, USA, not the country in the Caucasus. I would offer sympathies to the former, except you have brought this upon yourselves —and the rest of us—having re-elected him 5 times; apologies to the latter if there was any confusion).
Ed. note: The video is presented because it conveniently includes three premier examples, easily found individually among many, of Johnson’s questionable mental acuity in one video, not as an endorsement for the campaign that produced it (and still lost).
A web search produced no returns of Vanity Fair mentioning any examples of “Dear God” journalism of Hank Johnson’s helium-filled cranium, easily found on YouTube and other sources. Curious that the obvious business nature of the helium bill did not become a blip on VF author Levin’s radar. Perhaps she did not find Johnson to be sufficiently frivolous to ring her frivolity bell. Ignoring these stories has, in effect, said, “Move along, no dumbness to see here.”
What other explanation could there be?
