Last week TIME magazine sent The LK (Lyin' King) into a funk when it named its annual "Person of the Year" on its cover. The one accolade that The LK most covets had been denied to the fool. The magazine named the Swedish teenager and climate-change activist, Greta Thunberg, the "Person of the Year" for 2019. The LK was double-bummed by missing the accolade from TIME and the person named stood at the forefront of the climate-change movement. Outdone by an adolescent who spoke forcefully about climate-change which The LK denies and stands at the forefront of opposing science and truth. What's a poor, poor LK to do? Typically, he launched a twitter-attack on Thunberg and she sassed him back in a twitter-reply. If this is a (fair & balanced) demonstration that evil-doers can get their just deserts, so be it.
[x The Nation]
The Low Point?
By The Deadline Poet (Calvin Trillin)
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President Trump on Thursday [12/19/2019] found time to insult
16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg after she
was named Time’s Person of the Year, an honor he has coveted
for years.
—The Washington Post
And yet we’re probably due for worse.
He hasn’t reached his nadir fully.
The bully pulpit’s sad descent
Now means we’re left with just the bully. ###
[Calvin Trillin, the author of Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Election in Rhyme (2008), is The Nation’s “Deadline Poet.” He has been acclaimed in fields of writing that are remarkably diverse. As someone who has published solidly reported pieces in The New Yorker for 40 years, he has been called “perhaps the finest reporter in America.” His wry commentary on the national scene and his books chronicling his adventures as a “happy eater” have earned him renown as “a classic American humorist.” His About Alice (2006)—a 2007 New York Times bestseller that was hailed as “a miniature masterpiece”—followed two other best-selling memoirs, Remembering Denny (1993) and Messages from My Father (1996). Trillin received a BA (English) from Yale University (CT).]
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