Robert (Don’t Call Me Third) Reich, whose physical stature qualifies him to be an eighth dwarf (Lefty perhaps?) stands a mighty 4-foot-11.
This was good for him during the Vietnam War according to Reich’s bio on Wikipedia, because while Reich was drafted, he didn’t pass the physical due to being an inch short of the minimum height requirement.
So Reich instead passed his time palling around with Bill Clinton at Oxford and even dating the then Hillary Rodham, also all according to Wikipedia.
As leftists go, Reich is somewhere on the extreme left of Marx, Trotsky, Castro and Lenin.
The onetime Secretary of Labor under Clinton is a reliable mouthpiece for all causes left.
That means most recently Reich has opined wherever possible on what a terrible thing it would be for Elon Musk to buy Twitter.
Can’t have a billionaire, an “oligarch” (the latter term being chosen carefully by Reich to link Musk to all those nasty Russian rich guys) operating a media outlet, be it social or otherwise. Dangerous nonsense this, according to Reich.
Understand that Reich, with typical liberal hypocrisy, has no problem with leftist billionaires controlling media. Zuck and Facebook, with its highly partisan censorship policy, is no problem to Reich. A cynic might note that’s because the Zuck and his censors lean hard left.
Amazon guru Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Dangerous nonsense? No, because Bezos is a good rank-and-file progressive.
Twitter, whose censorship policy puts it in Reich leftist territory on the political spectrum, is fine just the way it is according to Reich. No dangerous nonsense here. Sure, co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey is a billionaire, but he made sure Twitter was as liberal as Abbie Hoffman, so having that billionaire reigning over a significant slice of internet discourse was neither dangerous nor nonsensical.
How are we to understand Reich? Back to his Wikipedia file. That refers to Reich being bullied as a child and vowing to stand up to bullies whenever and wherever possible.
Make that standing up to any conservatives Reich brands as bullies because they don’t worship at the feet of Chairman Mao.
If you are a socialist, leftist, progressive, so liberal-you-can’t-stand-up-straight, feel free to bully away.
This ideological blindness is a way for a height-challenged guy to be a big man, metaphorically speaking. No matter that actor Gary Burghoff, a 5-5 ½ specimen who played Radar O’Reilly on the TV sitcom MASH, presumably could post up Reich with impunity on a basketball court.
As long as Reich keeps spouting leftist slants on anything and everything he is a 7-foot Shaquille O’Neal to those fellow travelers. No need to be correct, just predictably doctrinaire.
Reich’s actions could be construed as a cry for help, for the sort of vaccine Fauci isn’t pushing – a cure for Napoleon’s Syndrome.
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