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"Today the media is far more interested in killing our idols -- or at least pointing out that they too go grocery shopping and get cold sores! -- than supporting them."
Oh, if only that were true!
Sure, the pop music press might be scandal-driven, and the sports press utterly unblinkered. But the naive fools responsible for our political reporting spent over five years infatuated with George W. Bush. They lied about Gore and ignored the stories of Bush's cocaine abuse, his deserting his post in the military during wartime, and his sheer mediocrity. Peggy Noonan wrote about Bush two years ago, "More and more this presidency is feeling like a gift." (Some gift.)
I'll gladly accept an entertainment press that portrays the next Beatles as four adorable, sassy moptops if the political press would simply do its job again.
Oh, one more thing. A little after the Beatles hit the US, it was common knowledge that John was married. It didn't take "years" for people to find out, it simply was mentioned in passing.
