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The Invaluable New York Post
There are certain times in the life of a newspaper when opinions need not be confined to the editorial pages (of course, certain papers — looking at you, New York Times — took down that wall of separation a long time ago). The New York Post correctly intuited that the marriage of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian — a sort of ouroboros of cultural decline — was one such occasion, and penned a suitably sharp-elbowed wedding announcement:
ALERT (yawn): Kimye Weds
Two jackasses got married in Italy Saturday.
Sex-tape star Kim Kardashian, 33, wed egotist Kanye West, 36, in a wedding opulent enough for Florence’s Medici dynasty and tacky enough for reality TV.
They were betrothed at Florence’s 16th-century Fort Di Belvedere Castle. Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner walked Kim down the aisle.
The republic still stands.
Nicely done — although it still leaves some key questions unanswered. Foremost among them — at least for the Ricochetti: Is it just a coincidence that our own Rob Long found himself in Italy last week? Rest assured, we have our team of investigative reporters pursuing that question.
Published in General
Dammit Troy. I was literally sitting down to post about this and I saw you beat me to it.
I’d rather Rob was fleeing prosecution for having killed a man (“it’s the romantic in me”; h/t lesserson) than to think he was attending that wedding.
Hooray for marriage?
I just lost all respect for you.
The piece ends with “The republic still stands.” Talk about burying the lead! But has this assertion been fact checked? “The republic continues to crumble” strikes me as more accurate.
Not the marriage. The Post’s coverage of it.
The more they are skewered in the media the better. Although, on second thought, if we never had to hear about them again it would be even better.
I haven’t been this moved by current events since Menudo broke up.
Since Menudo broke up with whom?
Would this justify outlawing of heterosexual marriage? At least in Italy?
Double points to Mr. Senik for “ouroboros of cultural decline”.