What about the Pence-at-the-cemetery propaganda stunt?
My first reaction, I admit, was pleasant surprise that the Veep stepped forth to support workers who are restoring the vandalized cemetery, but then I listened to NPR this morning.
Some Conservative gasbag, whom I decline to name, took the opportunity to stress again and again that Pence and Oberführer Bannon are on exactly the same wavelength when it comes to condemning prejudice and violence based on race, religion or ethnicity.
He said it repeatedly, rapidly, and urgently, and in so doing clanged my bullshit detector.
So here's what I figure: it would have been weird and obviously false for Oberführer Bannon to go to the cemetery, and no one would have believed the attempted illusion. So they dispatched Pence instead, asserting that he & the Oberführer are of the same mind, allowing them thereafter to insist that Bannon holds no prejudice in his heart despite making million$ and leveraging himself into the Whitehouse by doing exactly that.
Granted, although Pence would still he a horrible pseudo-human in any case, I wish I could believe that his effort here was genuine. But then I remember that nothing about this administration is genuine.
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Good thing you tagged it as satire, since it's becoming harder to distinguish from reality with each passing day.
