Charles Hurt: The Greatest Political Show on Earth Winds to a Spectacular CloseCharles Hurt 19 Jan 2021
As this epic adventure of Donald J. Trump’s presidency winds to a spectacular close, I am reminded as I have been so many times over the past five years just how inadequate we sad scribes in the political press have been at capturing it all — this, the Greatest Political Show Earth has ever seen.
It was once said of newspaperman H.L. Mencken — the so-called “Sage of Baltimore†— that in his political reporting, he “never giggled, seldom even chuckled; he roared with laughter.â€
The rotund and orotund A.J. Liebling wrote about boxing, eating, war, and the zany scam artists of Times Square during the 1930s. Perhaps his greatest work, however, was his political tome, “The Earl of Louisiana,†about that state’s “half crazy and half-intelligent†Gov. Earl Long.
Though Liebling certainly would not have sympathized much with the current MAGA political forces, his love for the dramatic, his eye for characters and his devotion to scalding honesty burned away any underbrush of pique, personal animus or political bias.
A.J. Liebling would have feasted on Donald John Trump.
H.L. Mencken would have lighted a cigar and wept tears of joy over the endless supply of material to fuel the trenchant wit that clacked through his overheated typewriter.
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