{"id":62496,"date":"2019-02-13T20:28:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T20:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62496"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:25:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:25:13","slug":"its-snowing-metaphoric-chyrons-ignore-unless-interested-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=62496","title":{"rendered":"It’s snowing metaphoric chyrons, ignore unless interested 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — politics is the straightforward topic, metaphor is the metalanguage we use to describe it, and reveals more than it refers to ].
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More chyrons &c from yesterday’s haul:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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With regard to that last one:<\/p>\n

On Friday, Donald Trump tweeted the headline to a recent Washington Examiner story, which read: \u201cBorder rancher: \u2018We\u2019ve found prayer rugs out here. It\u2019s unreal.\u2019\u201d As the headline suggests, the story is about a New Mexico rancher who claims to have seen prayer rugs\u2014typically used by observers of Islam\u2014near the U.S.-Mexico border. After the headline, Trump added this: \u201cPeople coming across the Southern Border from many countries, some of which would be a big surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

His decision to amplify the Examiner piece has since come under scrutiny. Why? Because the prayer-rug story sounds an awful lot like something that happens in Sicario: Day of the Soldado, as several people have pointed out on Twitter.<\/p>\n

The 2018 action film, which revolves around the drug war along the border, opens with border agents chasing after a group of migrants\u2014one of whom turns out to be a Muslim suicide bomber. He kneels, prays, then detonates his bomb. After that, agents come across abandoned prayer rugs along the border; in the next scene, three suicide bombers walk into a store in Kansas City and kill innocent civilians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A case of Matryoshka realities:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The particular interest here from a formal point of view is that it is Borgesian <\/strong>or Escherian <\/strong>in its flipping of realities — but that only makes the Islamophobia more poisonous, because it’s delivered in what’s effectively a subliminal manner. <\/p>\n

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More chyrons etc:<\/p>\n

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And the suggestions Melber’s viewers made for art illustrative of the Mueller probe:<\/p>\n

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That whole painting series relates back to the Ari Melber<\/strong> conversation I quoted in the previous post<\/a>, in which his guests suggested the Mueller <\/strong>probe and Giuliani <\/strong>in particular reminded them of Impressionism<\/strong>, Cubism <\/strong>and Jackson Pollock<\/strong>, surrealism<\/strong>, and Salvador Dali<\/strong> with his melting clocks..<\/p>\n

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Need to slip this in, it’s excerpted from my transcription of a clip of Hakeem Jeffries of the House Judiciary Cttee questioning Whitaker:<\/p>\n

Manafort. Gates, Cohen, Papanopoulos, and Stone. All in deep trouble. One by one, All the President’s Men, going down in flames. It’s often said, where there’s smoke there’s fire. There’s a lot of smoke emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue now. Yet. You decided not to recuse yourself, is that right?<\/p>\n