By Roger L. Simon in PJ Media
In the roughly ten years since I
helped found PJ Media, I have been back and forth between LA and DC a fair
amount of times. I am on a plane at this moment, returning to my
California home once again, but never have I been more disturbed by my trip.
Our nation’s capital has become strange, surreal and disquieting.
It’s hard to have a lot of hope.
Long gone, thankfully, are the
endless booths selling Obamabilia. But replacing that falsely optimistic
atmosphere is an empty, bleak feeling. Yes, Washington is still the capital of
posh, with celebrity chefs aplenty and ever-escalating real estate, the money
having drained from the rest of the country down to Foggy Bottom, but
nobody seems to be having much fun from it anymore, not even the Democrats.
Obama and his minions are huddled
wherever they’re huddled, busy destroying the Western World with their bizarre
policies and eagerness to make a deal with Iran that is so desperate it makes
the word pathetic seem pathetic. The results of this desperation have been
wretched, a fascistic new Persian Empire emerging from Libya to Yemen with
Obama auditioning for the role of Cyrus the Great – or is it Ahmadinejad
Junior? Whatever the case, it’s horrible Even those same Democrats know
it. They’re embarrassed – and they should be. But for the most part
they don’t have the guts to say anything. This is the kind of administration
that exchanges a creepy sociopath like Bergdahl for five Islamic homicidal
maniacs and expects praise for being humanitarian. And everyone walks
away shaking their heads.
It’s hard to know why Obama is doing
it all. I know it sounds like a rude overstatement but in a way he
reminds me of that crazy German pilot flying that plane into that alpine cliff,
only the plane is us (America and the West). Does he hate us all that
much – or is it just Netanyahu? Whatever the explanation, it’s mighty
peculiar. At this point almost no one in the Congress appears to be
backing him up – and yet he continues. Who knows what will happen next?
Los Angeles-based Roger L. Simon is the author of
ten novels, including the prize-winning Moses Wine detective series, and seven
screenplays, including Enemies: A Love Story
for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. The 2012 Academy
Award-nominated release A Better Life was
based on his original story. He served as president of the West Coast branch of
PEN and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America.
Mr. Simon was on the faculty of the American Film Institute and the Sundance
Institute. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Yale School of Drama.
In February 2009, he published his first non-fiction book – Turning
Right at Hollywood and Vine: The Perils of Coming Out Conservative in
Tinseltown. The Party Line, a stage play Mr. Simon co-wrote with his wife Sheryl Longin was
published by Criterion Books in November 2012. He is the co-founder and CEO
emeritus of PJ Media.
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