Ya gotta love it. Long after the 2024 campaign enters the dustbin of history, the Time magazine cover story on Kamala Harris will shine through as a perfect example of just how the liberal “mainstream” media rallies when one of their own is newly front and center. The current Time cover is a drawing/painting picturing the Democrat nominee as a cross somewhere between Miss America and a religious icon. Understanding a challenge when he sees one, opponent Donald Trump quickly said the following when asked for comment. He replied, according to USA Today, as follows:   Trump complimented Harris’ cover image during an Aug. 12 interview with Elon Musk broadcast on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter.  He described her as a "beautiful woman," comparing her to his wife, former first lady Melania Trump.  "She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live," Trump said. "It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great first lady, Melania."  “She didn’t look like Kamala, but of course, she’s a beautiful woman, so we’ll leave it at that,” Trump continued. Question: Can you, dear reader, imagine how a Time cover would depict a conservative and Republican woman were one to be nominated for president or vice president? No need to wonder. Back there in the stone age of September 2008, here is the Time cover of newly minted GOP vice presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.  Not a painting or drawing glorifying her attractiveness, the cover is instead a serious photo close up of the new nominee, glasses in place and no glorification. Recall the Time headline for Kamala: “Her Moment.”  As in…hurrah! Three cheers! Our female savior is here!” For Governor Palin, on the other hand, the caption condescends:  The Education of Sarah Palin. As if the GOP had reached out to some female yahoo who was in serious need of basic education. This, in short, is how the liberal media plays the game. You’re a conservative, a Republican? Woman or man you will find yourself portrayed ever so slightly (or worse!) in negative fashion. But if you’re a liberal? There can be no glorification that is enough to display your brilliance and attractiveness to the American public. History records that this media double standard has been around for decades. Recall that when he ran for president -- and was elected four times -- the crippled-from-polio Franklin D. Roosevelt had a quiet agreement with the media of the day. Obviously getting in and out of a wheelchair is a physical difficulty, with FDR understandably needing help from others to accomplish getting in or out of his wheel chair going to or coming from some other place. In fact, history records that in the day, if the Secret Service caught a photographer taking pictures of FDR with any indication of being assisted, their cameras were, in fact, summarily confiscated. We’re a long way from the 1930’s and 1940’s. But, it seems, the liberal media desire to project a favorable if not quasi-religious image of Democrat leaders in the most favorable of images has gone nowhere - perhaps increasing. When Obama defeated McCain-Palin in 2008, Time's cover glorified him as....the New FDR. 

In many ways, Steven Pressfield means us to take the title of his invaluable book “The War of Art” literally. The process of artistic creation, as he sees it, involves persistent battle with a tireless and devious enemy: resistance. Resistance is what we face whenever we find ourselves entertaining yet another reason not to follow our primal urge to sit down and write.For Newlove, to drink was to take refuge in delusion, a destructive yet comforting haze inimical to true artistic creation. One of resistance's primary weapons is fear, which Pressfield makes a point of addressing with blunt honesty: “The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.” A successful novelist and screenwriter in his own right, Pressfield has dedicated much of his life to arming his fellow scribes with the tools and the courage they need to face this challenge head on.Writing books isn't exactly digging ditches, as many a novelist as observed in a moment of faux-humility. True enough. But an undug ditch rarely inflicts the kind of psychological and emotional distress that the blank page does.Like many writers, Donald Newlove (who died in 2021 at 93) attempted to ease the pain of creation by drinking. His prodigious efforts earned him a few unpublishable manuscripts (the work of his rarely-sober alter ego “Drunkspeare”) and years of crippling alcoholism. When he finally did quit in his late thirties, Newlove found he had a lot to say about the effect of alcohol on his work and on the work of other writers. In 1981 he published “Those Drinking Days: Myself and Other Writers," re-released in 2022 by Tough Poets Press. “Those Drinking Days” empathetically yet unsparingly dismantles persistent, romantic notions linking artistic inspiration and addiction. For Newlove, to drink was to take refuge in delusion, a destructive yet comforting haze inimical to true artistic creation. Newlove diagnoses the same problem in many of his heroes, in a passage which any sad, young, literary man biding his time in a bar may find soberingly familiar: “[T]hese writers toweringly resist and consistently fail to recognize home truths about themselves ... False allegiances abound: to culture and place of birth, to so-called social graces, to male bonding in war or sports or hunting, to ‘literature’ and the fellowship of dead drunks, and to living companions at their manly self-sacrifice to Old Ego-giant."

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