Midge Decter is one of those people you occasionally are surprised to find is still alive, especially if you don't spend much of your time in the incestuous bubble that is the, soi disant, New York City intellectual scene.
Digby has this rather morbidly and marginally interesting look back at Midge's senile erotomaniac crush on Donald Rumsfeld. It's by way of pointing out the total dishonesty of William Kristol reacting to Michael Moore saying the Bush Crime Family invaded Iraq for the oil. The fact is that Kristol's intellectual madrina, Midge, said the same thing, in his presence, on tape.
Any city that could maintain Midge, her hubby, Kristol, and their associates as part of an intellectual scene for the past five decades is a city whose intellectual scene is maintained as a tony fraud based more in funding and PR and fashion than in intellectual depth. New York being a center of the status symbol media is largely responsible for its over-rated intellectual status. The reaction to the defection of such important institutions as The Tonight Show to Hollywood reveals a lot about that. The vastly over-rated Woody Allen once got partial revenge by snarking about Los Angeles' only intellectual attraction over the center of his personal universe was being able to turn right on a red light. It was funny at the time but, really, given what, for decades, can pass as intellectual in The Greatest City On Earth In The History of The World, If Not The Universe, they all need to be taken down a few pegs. I'll go with the guy from Flint Michigan over the New York intellectuals. With the demotion of centralized media, it's time for those of us who don't live in and aren't interested in the latest trends in the self-appointed Capital of the Universe to get over it. There's no need to tell them, they won't notice us out here, anyway.
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