Mitt Romney Tag

Posted On Januar 28, 2015By Thomas AdcockIn Kolumnen und Themen, Litmag

Thomas Adcock: Theatre of Distraction

New York, near America Never mind America’s backstage squabbles and squalors, our societal troubles and turpitudes, our devastations and disappointments. All eyes, please, on the spotlighted proscenium! Pay no attention to those ring-kissed plutocrats and oligarchs behind the curtain; behold, as it rises on the Theatre of Distraction. Hark! The pieties, platitudes, and perfidies we hear compose a farcical prelude to the oldest established permanent floating crap game in these United States: the quadrennial presidential campaign season. Per custom at this stage of the game, festivities were officially launched lastRead More
“How’m I doin’?” Campaign catchphrase of the great Ed Koch, mayor of New York Der amerikanische Autor und Edgar-Gewinner Thomas Adcock berichtet exklusiv für CULTurMAG in seiner wöchentlichen Kolumne von dem täglichen Wahnsinn des US-Wahlkampfs. Heute: Religion und Wahlkampf. Jesus Christ for President Dear Reader: Should you take umbrage by so much as a whiff of blasphemy, partake here of no further scurrility that would injure your spiritual sensibilities. I shall be offended not in the least if you opt to turn your attention, post haste, to some more pleasingRead More
Der amerikanische Autor und Edgar-Gewinner Thomas Adcock berichtet exklusiv für CULTurMAG in seiner wöchentlichen Kolumne von dem täglichen Wahnsinn des US-Wahlkampfs. Diese Woche: „G.O.P., R.I.P“ Last week’s daily menu of discouraging news for White House hopeful Mitt Romney began late on Monday afternoon with the bombshell release of a video surreptitiously taped during a fundraising banquet last May in Florida. At the private gathering, the multi-millionaire challenger to President Barack Obama disparaged half the American population as social parasites who feel “entitled to health care, food, housing, you name it”Read More
Am letzten Samstag hat Thomas Adcock ein paar Lebenslinien der politschen Geistesgeschichte Amerikas umrissen, heute startet, exklusiv bei CULTurMAG, seine wöchentliche Kolumne rund um den Wahlkampf in den USA . Diese Woche: “The New Sarah Palin” By Thomas Adcock. One of two men vying for the office of president of the United States has evidently decided that imbecility and deceit are effective strategies in his campaign to evict a black family from the White House. Perhaps the candidate is influenced by the wisdom—dubious versus merited—of two very different but quintessentiallyRead More