Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Big Chief Talking Bull   [Mark Steyn]

I'm an old media bore myself, but honestly, can't the suits even get their hollow braggadocio soundbites right? Instapundit posts this item:

"The Googles of the world, they are the Custer of the modern world. We are the Sioux nation," Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Richard Parsons said, referring to the Civil War American general George Custer who was defeated by Native Americans in a battle dubbed "Custer's Last Stand".

"They will lose this war if they go to war," Parsons added, "The notion that the new kids on the block have taken over is a false notion."

Which of course is why Montana Territory today remains a part of the Sioux nation and the United States has been forced back to a dozen East Coast redoubts.

Incidentally, the explanatory note which Reuters feels obliged to add to Parsons' quote is not just a sad comment on American cultural literacy but a good example of why old media really are the Sioux nation: no business which gave serious thought to its customers would choke them on unreadable sludge ("the Civil War American general") and leaden PC anachronisms ("Native Americans").

05/09 12:00 AMShare