Saturday, July 4, 2009 — Happy 233rd to the unfailingly weird old America. Having just bashed out another fortnightly issue of the Nation’s Oldest Newspaper™, we’ll just toss up this little slice of life from old, weird Po’town, and take the rest of the day off.
Earlier today, responding to a tip from our faithful distribution volunteer Adam Williams, we caught up with Dave Rynne, who had stationed himself in front of the North Church to do his best to alert the rest of us to the threat posed to the nation by the current occupant of the White House. Two tipoffs: Obama was not born in the U.S.A., and he left his middle name — Hussein — off of his official Inaugural photograph. Rynne did what he could to remedy that flaw by pasting small red horns onto Obama’s photo.
Dave expressed a skeptical view of the press, saying he preferred to get his news and information from Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage.
His sign was signed in the lower right, “Brothers of Liberty.” We asked Dave if that name referred to any specific an organization. He said yes, it goes back to before 1776.
We asked if he meant the “Sons of Liberty.” He said no, he had never heard of the Sons of Liberty.
I found the line “he preferred to get his news and information from Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael Savage. ” most interesting since each of them are actually entertainers.
I’m not saying I think the mainstream press hasn’t got warts or that journalism in Amercia isn’t suffering from fundamental and systemic problems but relying on entertainers is not making things better and probably making them far worse.