KISS OF DEATH

The election for the Democrat candidate for mayor of the District of Columbia ("DC") is over. The current mayor was not selected to be the Democrat candidate for the Fall election. In DC the Democrat candidate is considered a "lead-pipe cinch" to be mayor after the election vote is ended. That Democrat candidate will be the invincible Vince Gray.

For the time being The People will have to endure the present mayor, Adrian Fenty. Will he be seen bicycling about with a platoon of Metropolitan police clearing a path for "His Honor?" Most likely, Mayor Fenty will plan a few trips to fabulous locations, observing and offering advice on how to ease from an automobile culture to a bike culture. (Can surries with fringe on the top be far away, Fenty-observers wonder.)  

Needless to say, Adrian Fenty was supported by The Washington Post. The Post as an institution has taken a Neo-Feudalism position for years. The rich ("Lords") and their entourage of advisers should rule a peasantry made fit by hard work and restricted, healthy diets. The rich would see that the poor had a subsistence living, and the poor peasants would send their children to fight the enemies of the rich - typically people not yet willing to give it up to the Lords.

The Washington Post, as well as the great media empires, see a progressive, even evolutionary, society as the fruit of their illuminated vision. The Lords, such as Donald Graham, will demonstrate noblesse oblige toward the teeming masses yearning to be flimflammed.

But hold on! Adrian Fenty was the choice of The Washington Post. And Adrian Fenty lost. How can this be? Has the dream of the rich been betrayed?

Savants of the people have noted that The Washington Post also supported Creigh Deeds for governor in the last Virginia election. What gives? It is true that there were rumors that Donald Graham and Catharine Weymouth thought "Creigh" was "Cree." The implication was that The Washington Post supported him because its leaders thought they were supporting a Native American.

Whatever was the case in the Virginia race, the support of the Democrat by The Washington Post proved to be useless. Now, after the people rose up in DC to cast out Adrian Fenty, also loudly supported by Donald, Catharine & company at the Post, there also arose the thought: Endorsement by The Washington Post is like a "Kiss of Death."