I Love This Story Because It Shows How Phony It All Is And Always Has Been

Jules's [Mari Sandoz's father, the subject of her first published book, Old Jules ] location on the river drew many other visitors – old trappers, traders, gold miners from the Black Hills and army men.  “Big Bat” Pourier, the scout and interpreter, came, and others with names such as Ecoffey, Provost, and Charbonneau.  They would sit around the stove in the smoky kitchen and yarn for hours.  Jules let Mari stay up and listen as long as she was quiet, and she often sat in the wood box by the stove, listening to their adventures.  Many of their names would be unknown to historians, but occasionally someone famous came by.  She first met Buffalo Bill Cody, with his beautiful flowing hair, when he came for a hunting trip with Jules.  It was through him that the little girl learned the difference between appearance and reality.  Sent to awaken Buffalo Bill the morning of the hunt, she found he had already gone, leaving his beautiful hair – a wig – on the bedpost.  She never forgave him for her disillusionment. 

Mari Sandoz, Story Catcher of the Plains
By Helen Winter Stauffer

Consider the role that Buffalo Bill, as a phony figure used by hack writers if not the actual early show-biz huckster of the "old west" has played in inventing the pathological fantasies that fuel our present day gun violence, his role as an inventor of that pathology that is so obvious outside of those trained by American entertainment that ISIS counts on it making their job of inspiring mass murder-terror in the United States far easier than it is in countries without our show-biz inspired gun insanity. Hear for yourself from the terrifying interview excerpted on The Rachel Maddow Show the other day.


Update:  As an example of the pathological lying that is posted at Duncan's Brain Trust but which I usually won't post here anymore.

And BTW, blaming Bill Cody for ISIS is perhaps the dumbest thing you've ever said, which is really going some.
Steve Simels

You can look at the short paragraph I wrote above to see that either the guy is reading challenged, truth challenged or both.   Whatever you choose to believe, I certainly didn't say that.

Though.......  since ISIS was pretty much a Bush II-Dick Cheney baby a combination of the forces that put them in office and formed the minds of the  phony"brush cutter" W and the duck-hunter-friend's-face shooter Dick Cheney, hailing from those loci of old-west illusion, Texas and Wyoming, John Ford might have had a hand in the whole mess.  The Bush II administration is certainly related to that movie-inspired pathology.  Anyone who denies that is brain dead.  And it is undeniable that the insane gun libertarianism and those who promote that, which ISIS finds so useful,  are saturated with cowboy mythology.   Such junk is what put ol' Death Valley Days Reagan, and so his Bush v. Gore Supreme Court appointees, into place, it certainly informed Reagan's ersatz historical thinking.

Update 2:  Yeah, it's too hot to work in the garden again so I'm amusing myself.  Here's the next thing Stupy has come up with.

John Ford directs THE GRAPES OF WRATH = ISIS. Got it.

There really is a Trumpian quality to Simp's um.... thinking, isn't there.

Update 3:  Now he's making fun of a little girl who never heard a radio or TV, who at a very young age found out a man who professionally presented himself as a great, heroic myth was a phony.  Only she found out and stopped being a chump for celebrities.  Simps is still a fame addled dolt, in his senescence during the internet age.   Maybe I'll post some of his comments on movie stars.  My mocking his recent defense of the suddenly out of style Clint Eastwood set him off.   You can add Mick Jagger, the Beatles, Woody Allen,.....