"Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" or "Up is Down and Down is Up"

[L. Coyote]

What is "Gonzo"? ( From Gonzolies (verb. nov.) English, May 17, 2007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... )

"Gonzo journalism" refers to when an author cannot remove himself from the subject he investigates, often referring to a style of writing a story as perceived in the moment in the mind of the writer.

When Boston Globe reporter Bill Cardoso read Hunter Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" he proclaimed "That is pure Gonzo!" Thompson believed objectivity in journalism was pure myth.

Cardoso used the South Boston Irish slang describing the last man standing after a drinking marathon.

"Gonzolies" is the English neologism describing the last man standing after a lying match.

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"Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" is a tale with twisted logic epitomizing the genre of nonsense literature. Gonzolies is just one of the characters in the fairy tale of current American politics. The Republican Party has fallen down a rabbit-hole into an hallucinatory realm populated by grotesque misstatements from wild, anthropomorphic creatures like Talking Point Cards, a rabbit-hole where beliefs transcend reality.

Gonzolies, a bored attorney looking for an adventure, starts a journey at Folly Bridge near Crawford, Texas, and ends up years later in the village of Gods Town. Gonzolies takes interest in a passing, ghostly super hero, a white knight muttering "Oh dear! Oh God! The Commies are coming!" He follows the knight down a deficit hole, and finds himself in a dreamlike world of magical beliefs where Gonzolies and R, the now aging super hero, grow to gigantic size.

Eventually Gonzolies joins Mad-Hater and his boss, March-to-War at a never-ending tea party of deficit spending, they go to a distant seashore and meet Mock Truth, and finally attend the Trial of "Critical Reason," the sole non-grotesque character in their adventure. Critical Reason has been accused of "disturbing truths." While Gonzolies prosecutes Critical Reason, he shrinks to a fraction of his inflated height, and the dream ends. Gonzolies wakes up at the picnic in Crawford, Texas.

Nonetheless, Gonzolies soon realizes that in Crawford up is still down and down is still up, and his new super hero, W, is enraptured by his own hallucinatory realm populated by wild, grotesque misstatements and talking points. Just when diminitive Gonzolies realizes the dream has not actually ended, he awakens again, and he realizes he was still at a lying contest and he was not the last man standing.

This time he has awakened in American politics, on the far side of Folly Bridge in Gods Town, where up is still down and down is up, and the lying contest goes on as W praises Gonzolies. Gonzolies wonders, "Am I still dreaming. How can I know if up is down and down is up?" He also wonders, "Am I still standing? Am I really Gonzolies, or is all this still just a dream in Ronderland?"

[L. Coyote]

1. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality...."

Gareth Porter
Blogging About News Neglects the Underlying Problem
August 30, 2007
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-gareth-porter/blogging-about-news-negle_b_62561.html

The blogosphere -- and especially progressive bloggers -- are playing a vital role in interpreting, investigating and illuminating the news. Without alert bloggers to dig out the truth, millions of people would not have information and analysis they need to penetrate the fog created by Bush administration around its schemes regarding the war in Iraq and it threats to Iran.

But I worry that, in limiting their role to responding to each new twist in the Bush administration's schemes, cannot defeat those schemes. The now-famous quote by an unnamed adviser to Bush to journalist Ron Suskind in the summer of 2002 is worth recalling here. The adviser said, "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Consider for a moment that the adviser (probably Karl Rove, who was the only adviser who could speak with such confidence about what soon to happen) was speaking just as the White House Iraq Group was planning its campaign to shape U.S. public and political opinion to give the Bush administration freedom of action to invade Iraq. The Rove group understood that, by creating the opinions necessary to use invade Iraq, they were about to "create their own reality".

Now we see that same ruthless confidence in the ability to "create their own reality" on display once again on Iran. Even as the administration's credibility on Iraq is the lowest imaginable, we see increasing evidence that Dick Cheney is orchestrating a campaign for war against Iran. There is even a report that he has now ordered Fox and other right-wing media outlets to launch a coordinated new offensive in support of war against Iran after Labor Day. ......

[Gabi Hayes]

2. link not work

http://www.spikemagazine.com/splinters/2006/10/hunter-s-thompson-death-industry.php

[L. Coyote]

3. Sorry: Gonzolies link PLUS Where was this history, lost in fairy land?

The Gonzolies thread evidences our make-believe political landscape.
When Gonzales resigned, the MSM did not mention the long list of Rs
and Dems who called for his resignation. What I heard ad nauseum was what Bush said.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x907626

LIARS: Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) accuses AG Gonzales and DoJ officials of lying about firing
Sen. Salazar calls for resignation of AG Gonzales "there was political influence" ... "litmus test"
Sen. Arlen Specter: Top Republican thinks Gonzales will resign
Sen. Johnson calls for Gonzales to step down
Sens. Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein are calling for a vote of no confidence
Sen. Hilary Clinton backs no-confidence vote on Gonzales
Sen. Dodd takes aim at all the president's accomplices
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., joined those calling for Gonzales to resign.
Sen. Norm Coleman, R-MN, fifth senator in his party to call for Mr. Gonzales' resignation
Sen Sununu (R-N.H.) the first GOP senator to call for resignation, March 14
Sen. McCain (R-AZ): Gonzales Should Resign "out of loyalty to the president"
Sen. Coburn (R-OK) and Sen. Smith (R-OR) crank up heat on Gonzales = RESIGN
Rep. Schiff and Rep. Davis Call on AG Gonzales to Resign, No Confidence Vote in House

Where was this history, lost in fairy land?

[Gabi Hayes]

4. thanks, and thanks for your great work on other threads.