Mulatto Gold Digger
2020-01-25 23:41:29 UTC
Harry and Meghan dont know how good they have it. They want to
bust out of their gilded cage and roam free, but theyre so
naive theyre like fluffy kitties who have never crossed a busy
road before and are likely to get squashed if they try.
A key motivation to the shocking Megxit announcement this week
even as the Queen warned Meghan and Prince Ginger Whiskers
against going public with their moronic plan was their fury
with the media. They hate the Royal Rota system, in which a
designated royal reporter and photographer cover their events as
representatives of the entire media and the royals have to do a
little light waving and smiling and generally go along with it.
What they dont seem to understand is that this system exists
for their protection; in exchange for the small compromise of
making nice with designated journos on a set schedule, they get
a break from the pandemonium of being trailed by hordes of
invasive paparazzi at all times.
They think life is so great outside the Firm? Let them call up
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Those two arent royals. How much
privacy did they enjoy during their relationship? Being in the
crosshairs of the media evidently took its toll on both of them.
Pitt lamented on a podcast released earlier this week that, Im
just, like, trash mag fodder. I dont know because of my
disaster of a personal life, probably. He developed a drinking
problem that hit crisis level on a plane in 2016, after which
Jolie dumped him. Its not clear whether Pitt has any
relationship with his son Maddox, 18, who is now a university
student in Korea. When an interviewer asked about his dad
visiting him on campus, Maddox said, I dont know about that
[or] whats happening. Asked whether the pairs relationship is
over, he added, Well, whatever happens, happens. Being a
global celebrity who isnt in a royal family isnt automatically
easy.
Like all celebrities, H & M think their media coverage is
intrusive but in their case they think the coverage is also
racist and insufficiently respectful of their self-image, which
is cool global ambassadors of woke. They envision puff pieces
that portray them as daring new avatars for social justice, and
there will be a few of those. But they also envision enjoying
total control over their image. That just isnt going to happen.
They say that in the future they will work only with grassroots
media organisations and young, up-and-coming journalists and
provide access to credible media outlets focused on objective
news reporting. In other words: Youre fired, media. H & M
dream of picking and choosing their own outlets, preferably the
grassroots (read: progressive) ones that will amplify the
political virtue-signaling envisioned by the Woke Wallis Simpson
(as Brendan ONeill of Spiked dubbed the former Ms. Markle).
As if! Within the royal embrace, media coverage is bubble-
wrapped. Out there in the cold cruel world of ordinary
celebrity, its anything goes. No Royal Rota agreement applies
in Hollywood. Its every paparazzo out for himself, every time
you go out for a coffee, and when youre on your own property
you have to pay for your own security to keep them at bay
instead of sending the bill to the taxpayer. The Royals, because
of the circumstances of Princess Dianas death and because of
the institutional respect commanded by the Crown, are just about
the only celebs west of Vladimir Putin who can enforce any
limits whatsoever over their coverage.
Besides, if H & M ever were to break completely free of the Firm
(unlikely), a big chunk of their mystique would be gone. Theyll
soon find themselves being mocked for pimping out their new
Sussex Royal brand. Hoodies, T-shirts, socks, ball caps and
pencils really? Theyre going to leverage a thousand years of
dignity and tradition for a bunch of cheesy crapola thats going
to wind up at the Dollar Tree? The whole point of being royal is
to float above and beyond ordinary existence, to make ordinary
mortals fantasize about what its like to be you. Once youre
doing interviews with E! or hawking Christmas ornaments on the
Home Shopping Network, youre just two schmucks getting torn
apart by the late-night comics.
Kyle Smith is critic-at-large at National Review
https://nypost.com/2020/01/11/why-harry-and-meghan-will-find-
life-even-harder-as-non-royals/
bust out of their gilded cage and roam free, but theyre so
naive theyre like fluffy kitties who have never crossed a busy
road before and are likely to get squashed if they try.
A key motivation to the shocking Megxit announcement this week
even as the Queen warned Meghan and Prince Ginger Whiskers
against going public with their moronic plan was their fury
with the media. They hate the Royal Rota system, in which a
designated royal reporter and photographer cover their events as
representatives of the entire media and the royals have to do a
little light waving and smiling and generally go along with it.
What they dont seem to understand is that this system exists
for their protection; in exchange for the small compromise of
making nice with designated journos on a set schedule, they get
a break from the pandemonium of being trailed by hordes of
invasive paparazzi at all times.
They think life is so great outside the Firm? Let them call up
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Those two arent royals. How much
privacy did they enjoy during their relationship? Being in the
crosshairs of the media evidently took its toll on both of them.
Pitt lamented on a podcast released earlier this week that, Im
just, like, trash mag fodder. I dont know because of my
disaster of a personal life, probably. He developed a drinking
problem that hit crisis level on a plane in 2016, after which
Jolie dumped him. Its not clear whether Pitt has any
relationship with his son Maddox, 18, who is now a university
student in Korea. When an interviewer asked about his dad
visiting him on campus, Maddox said, I dont know about that
[or] whats happening. Asked whether the pairs relationship is
over, he added, Well, whatever happens, happens. Being a
global celebrity who isnt in a royal family isnt automatically
easy.
Like all celebrities, H & M think their media coverage is
intrusive but in their case they think the coverage is also
racist and insufficiently respectful of their self-image, which
is cool global ambassadors of woke. They envision puff pieces
that portray them as daring new avatars for social justice, and
there will be a few of those. But they also envision enjoying
total control over their image. That just isnt going to happen.
They say that in the future they will work only with grassroots
media organisations and young, up-and-coming journalists and
provide access to credible media outlets focused on objective
news reporting. In other words: Youre fired, media. H & M
dream of picking and choosing their own outlets, preferably the
grassroots (read: progressive) ones that will amplify the
political virtue-signaling envisioned by the Woke Wallis Simpson
(as Brendan ONeill of Spiked dubbed the former Ms. Markle).
As if! Within the royal embrace, media coverage is bubble-
wrapped. Out there in the cold cruel world of ordinary
celebrity, its anything goes. No Royal Rota agreement applies
in Hollywood. Its every paparazzo out for himself, every time
you go out for a coffee, and when youre on your own property
you have to pay for your own security to keep them at bay
instead of sending the bill to the taxpayer. The Royals, because
of the circumstances of Princess Dianas death and because of
the institutional respect commanded by the Crown, are just about
the only celebs west of Vladimir Putin who can enforce any
limits whatsoever over their coverage.
Besides, if H & M ever were to break completely free of the Firm
(unlikely), a big chunk of their mystique would be gone. Theyll
soon find themselves being mocked for pimping out their new
Sussex Royal brand. Hoodies, T-shirts, socks, ball caps and
pencils really? Theyre going to leverage a thousand years of
dignity and tradition for a bunch of cheesy crapola thats going
to wind up at the Dollar Tree? The whole point of being royal is
to float above and beyond ordinary existence, to make ordinary
mortals fantasize about what its like to be you. Once youre
doing interviews with E! or hawking Christmas ornaments on the
Home Shopping Network, youre just two schmucks getting torn
apart by the late-night comics.
Kyle Smith is critic-at-large at National Review
https://nypost.com/2020/01/11/why-harry-and-meghan-will-find-
life-even-harder-as-non-royals/