High Life

7 February 2009

Marked men

Fooling all the people all of the time seems to be le plat du jour nowadays. The two most disgusting of our species, money-grubbers and politicians, were in Davos last week, and instead of a military swoop to herd them all together in a cage and drop them off somewhere in a crevasse — there are thousands in the Alps — we actually covered in print and electronic media what these jerks had to say. Incidentally, Rupert Murdoch’s hair colour has changed again, but for the better. Red does not go with the snow. It sticks out. These are the bums who invented subprime mortgages wrapped in complex bonds and derivatives, pumped them up with leverage of more than 30 to one, and then globalised them to the far corners of the earth. Death in a crevasse is slow but pleasant. After the original shock the cold sets in and one starts dreaming. I have no idea what the money-grubbers and the politicians would dream about, but I assure you it won’t be anything nice. Perhaps if an avalanche hits them while they’re down there it might add to their discomfort. But they’re so thick-skinned, they might even survive it.

Almost as thick-skinned as those Hollywood types who cast Tom Cruise as Claus von Stauffenberg. I saw the film and, although it could have been much worse, I thought it never got close to real portrayals of the brave Germans who tried to assassinate Hitler. But how could they? The only Germans they know about are those they show in bad movies as crude brutes bayoneting women. They’ve never met German aristocrats and certainly not Wehrmacht officers of the old school. Still, the uniforms were fine, but the British actors wearing them reminded me of neocons such as Kristol and Podhoretz posing as warriors. Ridiculous.

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Gil

February 5th, 2009 7:02pm Report this comment

I read his piece week after week waiting for the obligatory 'Jewish' jibe or the 'Wehrmacht rehabilitation' comment. He never disappoints! What a bitter man Taki is. And what's this about a 'conspiracy theory'? Why, only last week we were told by the Great Man that Mossad was involved in Madoff's crimes. As someone from the period that Taki sometimes writes so wistfully about said: 'The bigger the lie, the more it will be believed'.

Andrew

February 7th, 2009 9:54pm Report this comment

Hear ... hear...Amazing how someone so talented can hate so very much....

Jane Bodington

February 8th, 2009 9:17pm Report this comment

You're right, it should be American actors in Wehrmacht uniforms, or Italian or Irish, maybe even Spanish. Let's be muliticultural and inclusive.
Why the Americans have a pathological need to put the British into the enemies 'boots' is something that perhaps Taki can shine a light on.
By the way, do tell, what colour has Wendi dyed Rupe's hair?

Manuel Escott

February 8th, 2009 11:25pm Report this comment

dear,oh,dear.the little greek boy is slipping in his not-so-subtle anti-jewish comments again. how else could he manage to slip in the names of podhoretz and kristol(both jewish) in a piece on the von stauffenberg movie. and of course he pays hisusual homage to those wonderful wermacht officers of the "old school.' same guys presumably who did such wonderful work for their leader in poland and russia. too bad volkischer beobachter isn,t still published. taki would be a star columnist there. manny,toronto

Bill

February 10th, 2009 10:34am Report this comment

What's "500 million big ones"? I thought this Taki fella moved in moneyed circles? But in his world a single dollar seems to be a "big one". Must be on his uppers. Where I come from a "big one" has always been a thousand, also known as a grand, latterly a piano — a derivative, I suppose.
And if von Stauffenberg and all those aristocratic Germans and Wehrmacht officers of the old school were such jolly good chaps, how did Hitler ever get to power and why did they wait until the war was lost before making their move against him?

GK

February 11th, 2009 5:00pm Report this comment

Those people who tried to assassinate the Furher(including Speer) would be known by nobody, without the chief. In the end they just turned to traitors, Speer because he wanted to save Germany he said.

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