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The Barry Crimmins Doctrine

Submitted December 3, 2006 - 3:34 pm by Al Giordano
Social humorist Barry Crimmins began as a "stand up comic" in comedy clubs in Boston and elsewhere. Soon he realized that many comics were largely plagiarizing, lifting the jokes and one-liners of others and repackaging them slightly so as to appear original.

At first it bothered him. Then one day he woke up and said to himself (I'm paraphrasing from memory), "well, if they are going to steal from me, let's make sure they steal and disseminate the word that matters."

It is at that moment that Barry passed from being a mere comic to being the foremost social humorist of our time; the current day Mark Twain. Now he posts his writings on the Internet, and the second-rate comics continue to steal from him, but in doing so they're spreading the message of truth and justice against the regimes.

And so it is here. The London Observer and the Commercial Media in general are the second-rate comics of a farse they call journalism. But at least they stole, for a change, the truth.

And part of that truth is that it really bothers them and those like them that someone like Bill Conroy broke a huge story (one that keeps on giving deeper insight into the Keystone Cop operations of Homeland Security and the US Justice Department) yet he did it without making a dollar, or selling a single ad, or charging admission. In other words, he proved that the Commercial daily newspaper industry is obsolete. So, of course they're pissed.

Who was it that said: A genius is known by the fact that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. I personally get a big kick out of seeing these "esteemed" official scribes from the Dallas Morning News, Proceso, the Observer, and others, reveal time and time again that they are mere dunces; dogs that go sniffing around for scraps of "news" on the ground to turn into market product. In this case the scraps are the bones of those assassinated in a house in Ciudad Juarez.

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