Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Doing My Best to Expand The Borders Of Medical Science

After reading Bill Moyers meltdown the other day I came to the realization that we had crossed an epidemiological threshold, a threshold that threatens the good mental hygiene of the nation. RDS, or as it is better known Rupert Derangement Syndrome, an affliction that leads to an aversion to Rupert Murdoch and all things associated with Rupert MurdochR is spreading through the corridors of power of our nation at an alarming rate. Now not that a billionaire publisher needs my help, but in the interests of public health I feel I should do my part in confronting this insidious, mind warping disease. While it has become most manifest in some of the nation's better known commentators such as the above mentioned Moyers and the previously quoted Columbia Journalism Review it is not just among the well known that the disease has appeared.
I first became acquainted with it while watching the Bravo show Tabloid Wars where I saw a most strange street corner encounter. A tabloid reporter, who I can't even remember if he worked for the New York Post was accosted by a passerby who apparently thought he did and was immediately set upon. The passerby started to berate Rupert Murdoch saying, "May Rupert Murdoch drop dead and die!" He then went on to change his mind saying instead that he hoped Murdoch's children would die; die like all the children who's death Murdoch was responsible for, which is where the nexus appears between Bush Derangement Syndrome and RDS.

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