Newsweek looking for a new Truman - pompous left wing propaganda at it’s worst

American magazines and newspapers usually turn out the most pathetic crap wrapped in fine cellophane. We recently had Newsweek, one of the most pompous of left wing American weeklies, pontificating that the country needed another President Truman. For a moment, I was reminded of the exchange in a Brecht play where one character says, "Pity the nation that has no heroes," to which the other responds, "Pity the nation that needs them."

Now, if one were to consider Newsweek a joke, which it is, albeit unintentionally, there could be a new round of thinking on ths subject of a future American President. He should have the military abilities of Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Otto von Bismarck combined, the humanism of Dr Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, the wit of George Bernard Shaw, the Duc de la Rochefoucauld and Charlie Chaplin, the looks of Casanova, Marlon Brando and Rudolph Nureyev and the brains of an Einstein, a Newsweek editor and a Newsweek columnist put together. Don’t ask me why this mist politically correct of journals published anywhere in the world didn’t speak about a woman President with these qualities. Most probably the chowderheads at Newsweek haven’t heard of any successful woman politician since Truman stepped down.

Why do I need to criticise Newsweek? Like everyone who reads a magazine, I have a critic’s license. Why do I read it? I need to do something in the loo. During the 3 minutes that it takes me to do the job there, I can read through Newsweek from cover to cover without missing a word. And so could anyone else who read this rag. Show me any other magazine which anyone could read that fast! DO I have any suggestions for Newsweek’s board as a subscriber who dutifully travels on United? Please print Newsweek on toilet paper. That would make it truly useful after someone reads your magazine. That, would be most fitting.