“Fire and Fury”: When Garbage Becomes Bestseller
By Julio
Severo
Small country towns are notorious for
gossip. If you want to escape slanders, flee country towns and live in a big
city.
The latest attack came from Michael
Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” which has become bestseller.
In fact, before its release on January 5, the book and e-book reached number
one both on Amazon.com and the Apple iBooks Store.
“Fire
and Fury,” according to Voice of America,
a news source of the U.S. government, “It is now the top-selling book on
Amazon.com. In Washington, D.C., people waited outside bookstores in extremely
cold weather to buy the book.”
CBS News run the headline: “Explosive ‘Fire
and Fury’ book tops best-seller lists, flies off bookstore shelves.”
I have read some pages of “Fire and Fury”
and its essence, substance and soul is gossip. Merriam-Webster Dictionary
defines gossip as “information about the behavior and personal lives of other
people.”
How gossip against Trump became bestseller
in the United States?
What does the Bible say about gossip?
“Never
gossip. Never endanger your neighbor’s life. I am the LORD.” (Leviticus 19:16
GWV)
“Whoever
goes around as a gossip tells secrets. Do not associate with a person whose
mouth is always open.” (Proverbs 20:19 GWV)
Some
could ask: “Yet, has not Trump ‘gossiped’ against Bush over the Iraq War?”
Actually, during his campaign, Trump said that the Bush administration lied about his reasons
to invade Iraq. Trump said that he opposed such invasion. Christians in Iraq
took a very heavy toll for Bush’s bad decision. The Iraqi Christian community,
which was over 2 million before the U.S. invasion, is now less than 400,000.
Excluding
the Iraq fiasco and other disasters of his neocon foreign policy, Bush was unfairly
slandered during his administration, with all kind of political gossip.
Left-wingers did not spare him. Books were also written against him, including “The
I Hate George W. Bush Reader: Why Dubya Is Wrong About Absolutely Everything,” by
Clint Willis, and “The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of
Deception,” by David Corn.
Bush was slandered by all the left, and
conservatives defended him as if he were totally correct — without recognizing
his submission to neocons and their cannibalistically warmongering ideology.
Same problem regarding Trump.
The same way left-wingers slandered
Bush and Ronald Reagan then, now they slander Trump. I never saw a U.S.
president so reviled as Reagan and Bush were — until Trump came.
But
Trump did not attack Bush’s private affairs. Trump did not touch Bush’s
personal life. He attacked Bush’s bad decisions that resulted in the Iraq War,
which was a humanitarian disaster for Christians.
Similarly,
people worried about persecution of Christians can question Trump’s decisions
on foreign policy that result in suffering for Christians, especially his difficulty of making America
independent of Saudi Arabia, the main sponsor of anti-Christian Islamic terrorism
in the world.
Trump campaigned in 2016 on a reduction of
U.S. interventions in other nations, and neocons got enraged at him, because
they use U.S. Republican and Democratic administrations to keep the U.S. in everlasting
wars and interventions. Now
the Trump administration does exactly what neocons want. To criticize his
departure from an anti-neocon policy is gossip? No, just as his attitude of
saying that Bush lied was not gossip.
If Michael Wolff had focused on Trump’s
failure to fulfill his non-interventionist stances on foreign policy in 2016, conservative
evangelicals, who were his main electoral base,
could applaud Wolff’s book. But his focus was Trump’s personal affairs. It was
his personal life. This is gossip.
I have found nothing helpful in “Fire
and Fury.” It is garbage in page after page.
Only sick people would wait outside
bookstores in extremely cold weather to buy garbage.
Only in a sick society gossip becomes
bestseller.
Portuguese version of this article: “Fogo
e Fúria”: Quando lixo vira best-seller nos Estados Unidos
Source:
Last Days Watchman
Recommended
Reading:
No comments:
Post a Comment