It might sound like an exaggeration,
but there are times when I expect to hear the Marseillaise played in the opening moments of cable’s MSNBC TV
shows. I’ve often wondered what the boys
and girls there would be wearing on Halloween because, of all nights, it would
be a suitable one to unabashedly honor those whom they admire. Of course, they could spoof the Right like
the Tea Partiers, NRA or Republicans, but I trust the impulse to sport the
raiment of the Left is too much of a temptation. If a person is known by the company he keeps,
it’s only logical to assume that what he wears might be an indication of what
he secretly desires.
Do they ever get tired of
talking-the-talk or walking-the-walk?
How about looking-the-look and why not?
The boys and girls at MSNBC could for just one night forgo their dialectic
materialism lectures and their victimhood reports and speeches. The vengeful braided wonder with the wavy
hands and mile-a-minute mouth could remake herself with an Afro in honor of
that venerable female icon of the Left, Angela Davis. In making her Trick or Treat rounds she could
openly raise her clenched fist somewhere besides the station’s Green Room. (I’m
sure MSNBC’s retinue of oppressed minorities in the Amen Corner would
understand.) Even
their best female host could use a night off and instead of relying on the
transformational talents of the makeup artist, come out by wearing the most
androgynous and politically correct costume of all, the Mao suit.
The frail Doonesbury-like boys at
MSNBC with the granny glasses and soft hands might try to honor their socialist
antecedents by dressing like them on Halloween.
Among the militant atheists, who would they like to imitate? Forget Leon Trotsky; those conspicuous round
glasses of the 1930s are definitely out as is the satanic Karl Radek look who
also wore them and which one of them could pull off the coarse masculine look of
Karl Marx? I suspect, however, that the
line-up of both men and women at MSNBC is a little too soft and bourgeois for
them to be considered true revolutionaries.
That means they love their bully pulpits and are comfortable with their
status even if they are considered by many to be Halloween characters
themselves.
