Taki Taki

The cultural elite has a new enemy

The Donald may have lost but 70 million Americans voted for him [Getty/DAVID MCNEW] 
issue 14 November 2020

New York

Election night parties are usually dreadful affairs, with the idiot box blaring and hysterical listeners screaming out the latest info. American TV pundits are smug trained seals, over made-up and blow-dried, and they all sound the same with their rehearsed stentorian voices. Brian Williams, or the ‘hero of Iraq’ as I call him after he was caught lying about a rocket attack on the chopper he was riding — he was safely on the ground and trembling — sounded sombre announcing that South Dakota had been called for the Donald. These so-called anchors no longer even pretend to be objective, and they had long faces when the predicted Biden landslide was gone with the dawn.

I, too, had predicted a Biden landslide, and was also wrong about a more important subject than the election — my dinner party.

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