cooper

CNN has outlandishly reported that Turkish military forces have killed the famous Hollywoodactor Bradley Cooper—with CNN breathlessly reporting to its Middle East viewers that Turkey had killed two US special forces troops, one of whom they identified as “American Sniper” Chris Kyle—with their using a picture of Cooperwho portrayed Kyle as an actor—with the Pentagon quickly denying this outrageous claim—but that immediately after which, saw President Donald Trump ordering one of the CIA’s main terror groups in Syria to be listed as terrorists. […]

The conversations in the Cooper books have a curious sound in our modern ears. To believe that such talk really ever came out of people’s mouths would be to believe that there was a time when time was of no value to a person who thought he had something to say; when it was the custom to spread a two-minute remark out to ten; when a man’s mouth was a rolling-mill, and busied itself all day long in turning four-foot pigs of thought into thirty-foot bars of conversational railroad iron by attenuation; when subjects were seldom faithfully stuck to, but the talk wandered all around and arrived nowhere; when conversations consisted mainly of irrelevancies, with here and there a relevancy, a relevancy with an embarrassed look, as not being able to explain how it got there. […]