time for a redo
You know… Chuck Klosterman’s book I Wear the Black Hat…
Doesn’t really stand up to the test of time. Or at least some of his villains and some of his “escaped villainry”…
There are three things that stick out here…
#1: Bill Clinton. In this book, Clinton sails away. Now, ignoring that he’ll be ignoring the whole swarm of anti-Clintonites who stick to the “Er… porked an intern and then lied about it?”…Power Imbalance, anyone? … it does appear that, finally, at long last, that group who’d be considered hypocrites — now that it is no longer Clinton that’s standing before any erosion of Roe V Wade against those damned Republicans — and now that everyone’s in a not as to “what happened with Hillary” — and in the wake of MeToo… the opinion of his culture definers has shifted…
… just as it might with Grover Cleveland if anyone were bothering to reopen the Grover Cleveland files.
#2: Political Correctness. He calls it a dead issue, only fit for a Charles Krauthammer (rip) editorial. The “progressive” trajectory of all things lay all things aside into a waste repository.
If you say so. Beyond polls showing everyone everywhere gnassing their teeth on this, who the hell did we just elect and why, and why is nobody anywhere happy with lines of illiberalism forming about college campuses?
#3: Tied in with the pc comments, Andrew Dice Clay. The book pooh poohs the career he had, appearances on Entourage, as though it were nothing. Except it isn’t nothing — it’s… a career… in the shadow of his time in the spotlight. As fodder for the sitcom “The Goldbergs” — the abrasive offensive character comedian that befuddles the grampa, he moves on to an interesting sounding new show. His career looks like its ending up shining more brightly than Louis CK, who… you know, we know his act wasn’t precisely an act… though, the career trajectory seems to have split — we’ll see when Louis CK ends up doing something on film instead of random club appearances…