Oh, Wow, You are Good

July 1st, 2010

Get Down, Get Down

What on earth is going on in Al Gore’s head?

Conservatives all said he was nuts back in 2000, when he tried to run George Bush off the debate platform. Are we being proven right today?

The massage story is horrendous. It suggests the man has completely lost his mind. The lust, I can understand. The alleged whining and groping and the “second chakra” reference sound symptomatic of heavy-duty mental illness.

Maybe none of it is true.

I don’t know how to react to the story. Christians are not supposed to listen to gossip, and we are not supposed to pass it on. But is it gossip when it involves a major political figure who has power over our lives?

It occurred to me yesterday that no matter how wacky we accuse the left of being, we nearly always turn out to be understating the case. This is literally true. On the other hand, a Republican was forced out of office for going to a sex club with his own wife, and another was crucified for saying the nonsense word “macaca.” It’s like we view Republican sins with a microscope (and Photoshop and audio dubbing and LSD, if necessary), but when the offender is liberal, we turn the microscope around so everything shrinks down to nothing.

Gore is now claiming he’s innocent. Maybe he is. But the accuser says she has a certain type of physical evidence which is irrefutible and impossible to fake. What will he say if she turns out to be telling the truth? Lies have a lot of power, but there are some problems they can’t fix. He lied about the polar bears and all that other environmental stuff, and he protected his lies by shutting out the press. You can’t shut a grand jury out. You can’t tell a prosecutor you’re not taking calls.

Some public figures get so full of themselves, they essentially force the press to go after them. Like John Wayne Gacy taunting the cops. The press will work very hard to protect a liberal, but eventually, they get fed up. It becomes a matter of pride with them. They start to feel used. Then you end up with Tom Fiedler waiting in the bushes to catch Gary Hart and Donna Rice. Or the John Edwards story. To a liberal politician, the press is like a forgiving parole officer. Sooner or later, they get out the cuffs and slap you down.

If the press gives up and realizes it has to eat Al Gore, things could get very messy. There is so much candy in the pinata, it will be raining for years. When you’re on top, no one will touch you, but once you fall, everyone has a dime to drop on you. All the cheesy things Gore has done over the decades will fall on him like the bail of a rat trap.

It is a sorry spectacle. Of course, we should pray he gets right with God and gets past this.

Things are going well here. Guitar practice is going great, and I am learning about amps and effects. I’ve decided to keep my cheap Chinese Epiphone, and I’m considering getting a pedalboard.

I’m frustrated by the left-hand work. I’m studying Fretboard Logic, and I’m studying the electric blues, and I’m getting into all kinds of stretches I never had to do when playing bluegrass. The progress is actually pretty fast, but because I have to have the stretches and bars down before I can really accomplish anything, I sometimes feel like I’m stuck in hardening cement. Thank God, the flatpicking is going quicker.

I’m starting to wonder if the blues is appropriate for worship music. I’m beginning to believe it is. Satan took sex, which is very close to God’s heart, and he turned it into something God’s people tend to malign. Maybe he did the same thing with blue notes and rhythm. The word “blues,” itself, is a deception. Blues music tends to be extremely upbeat and joyful, but because of the name and some of the lyrics, people think of it as depressing music. Go to a B.B. King concert and see if you see anyone sad in the crowd. WAKE UP. Labels don’t create reality. You could call it “pineapple-flavored music,” but it wouldn’t make it true.

I heard a blues worship tune in my head this morning. I may write it down. It would pep things up between bland tunes where people wave their arms and murmur “You are good oh how good wow you are good” over and over.

9 Responses to “Oh, Wow, You are Good”

  1. aelfheld Says:

    the John Edwards story.

    That was broken by The National Enquirer and the ‘mainstream’ media wouldn’t touch the story until Edwards had to be escorted out of the hotel by security to avoid questions from the Enquirer reporters.

    Don’t think the press will quit protecting Gore – this isn’t 1988 and the press has stopped worrying about the appearance of objectivity.

  2. Steve H. Says:

    I didn’t say the MSM drew first blood RE Edwards, but I have to point out that these days, the distinction between the National Enquirer and the MSM is mostly imaginary. People have a limited ability to shift gears. They grew up seeing the Enquirer a certain way, and now that the Enquirer’s standards have improved, they are blind to the change.
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    When I was a kid, the Enquirer would print nearly anything, but their reputation for accuracy is many, many times better than it used to be. When it comes to major stories, I trust them at least as much as outlets like the NYT and Washington Post. They have been right time and time again.
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    As for the press protecting liberals, see what I wrote. They eventually turned on Edwards, and depending on the breaks, Gore may end up in the same boat.
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    The liberal press hates conservatism, but they also hate being taken for granted and being made to look bad. If Gore proves too embarrassing, they will light him up like a Roman candle.

  3. Ed Bonderenka Says:

    B.B King’s “When Love Came to Town” and Paul and Rita Baloche’s “Sing Out!” are bluesy enough! Some Third Day also.

  4. aelfheld Says:

    No disagreement on the evolution of The National Enquirer into something as (if not more) trustworthy as the NYT and the WP; the reason for the change may well be that it is filling the void left by the retreat of the ‘mainstream’.

    I understand what you wrote, and agree that the idiots of the press don’t like being shown up for the idiots they are. Thing is, each time one of their demi-gods is caught in flagrante they take longer and longer to ‘slap them down’.

  5. pbird Says:

    Please write your song!!! Most “Christian Music” is a sin and a shame.

  6. aelfheld Says:

    Most modern Christian music.

  7. Ron Says:

    I believe the National Enquirer was considered for a Pulitzer the last go-round for their work in the John Edwards case. Maybe they would rather feather their own nest than protect liberals. Let’s hope so.
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    A mole in the white house (DeepThroat) during Nixion’s time gives me hope that a mole is at work today.

  8. pbird Says:

    Right.

  9. Steve H. Says:

    I would say modern Christian music is an odd combination of fantastic music and bad music, and that makes sense, because for the most part, the old music that is with us has survived because it’s good, while the bad new music hasn’t disappeared yet. In other words, most bad old music has been discarded, so the old music we have is mostly good. Bad new music is still here, so it remains mingled with the new music which is good.