I have never known a kid that did not want to attend at least one circus performance under a big tent staffed and stuffed with clowns, now that the last big tent operation was on the twenty-first of May 2017 after 146 years of non-stop entertainment, where can one find and be entertained by all those once clowned faces? Well, one has only to look to the women now populating most news and information programing on television. It seems station masters have gone out of their way to hire and make up the faces with red pouting lips, the most outlandish female women acting as journalist in broadcasting dressed in clown face and ‘hair dye’, and dare not offer any apologies for their efforts but are digging ever deeper into this phenomena… Goodbye serious looking female journalists and politicians, hello female television journalists as show business icons seeking viewers as in box office eyeballs…

An over fifty-years-of-age, Roland Martin and an over-fifty-years-of-age, Jonathan Capehart, both seemingly recently have found a much needed spark to their on-air careers by appearing on television to look like the younger of themselves…Just like most of their generation have searched and found a fountain of youth burrowed deep in the bottles of hair dyes…

My next-door neighbor once had planned to set aside a single book-shelf in her home library for her purchased collected books written on the criminality of this American President for her grandchildren. She now has had to abandon the project altogether since it would now take a whole bookcase just to house her overflowing collection of which has grown too expensive for her to keep up as a lone pensioner, in this lifetime anyway.

Whom ever is elected the next President of the United States will be raising taxes, both millionaire and minimum wage earners will be complaining, the American people demand certain governmental services and they will get them. The recipient of a governmental handout will never ask if it is the result of a socialist program, will just be thankful for the aid. Healthcare services must be guaranteed for all who breathe American air, illegals included, a virus does not ask to see ones papers before infecting, it’s a simple extension of protection for us all, much like, do or die…

Former Fox News anchor, the over fifty years of age, Shepard Smith, has a promo running on CNBC where he has just found a new home, commencing September 30th, 2020, in this promo he vigorously championed his more than thirty years as journalist, well let’s just quote him, “In my more than 30 years in journalism, there has never been a better or more critical time to launch a non-partisan, fact-based evening newscast”. This blogger has taken notice of his claim of his “fact-based journalism’ all the while engaging in the practice of ‘appearance journalism’ throughout his broadcast career. Mr. Shepard has never appeared on television correctly and properly attired with any gray hair, and I suspect, he will not be starting to on this new ‘fact based’ news program on CNBC, a network not noted for gray hair on any of the heads of any of its ‘old age on air talent’, or on the heads of its regularly appearing guest pundits, week after week…

If you are a reporter appearing within the confines of a televised news program with dyed hair, that calls into question the validity of your journalism as you have now entered into the realm of ‘appearance journalism’, that has become tainted with a hint of show business, seemingly just to spike for higher viewer ratings…

As far as I have been able to study injustices in the United States, they have only been cured when it costs dollars, when a remedy is cheaper than not fixing, when an injustice comes out of someone’s pocketbook, it becomes ripe for consideration for change, it has been demonstrated over and over again, looting, rioting setting fires has become the weapon of choice for all movements exercising for any societal change. And I wish it were not so, but “it is what it is”…

Double doors swing wide open, the dictator walks through, two soldiers on either side salute as he passes, he does not return their salutes. Now where have I seen this pageantry displayed before, almost every time Vladimir enters a large room. It’s called “stage door fancy”, only its curtains not doors, is a theatrical term used in the theater, showing reverence for a big star, now being adopted for political leaders, showing the same effect, an act of reverence without saying a word.

Larry Tye, has written a biography of Senator Joseph McCarthy called Demagogue, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, I understand from those that have read it, it’s a good read, I have not, what I have learned of it has allowed me to nibble at its edges for one of my blog postings.

One of the tools of any demagogue worth their salt is to look the part, that can easily be achieved by applying just a little hair dye, demagoguery broken down to its simplest term can be summed up in one word, ‘influence’, and the ability to make ‘the deal’, in short, ‘sales person’. After spending just five minutes watching television, one can find them on display pitching product, and by extension, reading the news to us, and running for public office. Before continuing let’s review Wikipedia’s description of demagoguery…”A demagogue a popular leader, a leader of a mob, from populace, the commons leading, leader or rabble-rouser is a leader who gains popularity in a democracy by exploiting emotions, prejudice, and ignorance to arouse some against others, whipping up the passions of the crowd and shutting down reasoned deliberation. Demagogues overturn established norms of political conduct, or promise or threaten to do so.” Sounds just a bit to extensive in the description of one pitching product on television, or reporting the news, but is still an overbearing match. Take any extremely popular public figure before hiring them to pitch product on television, first disguise their age by dyeing their hair, for some odd marketing reasoning, ‘old’ does not sell product when one would think it would, inexperience attractive youth seemingly does, these days, the blond dyed greasy lipped woman. Now you are ready to know the not so secret ingredient of demagoguery in confirmation, influence. An influential person can convince anyone to commit a crime, forge a document, even purchase a product. When asked why they did what they did, an often defense can be heard, I was driven to, was influence to, was enticed to, was motivated by an influencer, a demagogue if you will, once captured under their spell are no longer in control, are never the blame, outside forces are, or was simply following orders. “It wasn’t me that started that old Asian war?” I just fought in it.

Did you ever see so much hair dye on television, not just on the heads of the politicians but the journalists too, I had to mop up the spills from the pundits that had accumulated around both my television and radio…