Monday, November 26, 2012
The Art of the Blowjob Profile
Matt Taibbi has read Paula Broadwell's hagiography of Gen. David Petraeus so we won't have to and gives us a review. Meh! But he also notes that it is so like every other 'authorized' bio or profile of the Very Important People. It seems they are all like a home on the range, where seldom is heard a discouraging word.
The book is so one-sided that it is almost supernaturally dull, and I was forgetting about it just minutes after I put it down.The blowjob profile has replaced any efforts at legitimate bio work among the living.
Then it hit me – it was an interesting book, after all! Because if you read All In carefully, the book's tone will remind you of pretty much any other authorized bio of any major figure in business or politics (particularly in business), and it will most particularly remind you of almost any Time or Newsweek famous-statesperson profile.
Which means: it's impossible to tell the difference between the tone of a reporter who we now know was literally sucking the dick of her subject and the tone of just about any other modern American reporter who is given access to a powerful person for a biography or feature-length profile.
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