This column orignially appeared at NA Confidential on May 14, 2015, and was revised on February 22, 2019. It has been lightly edited to pertain to the 2023 election cycle.
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Four more years?
So off went the Emperor in procession under his splendid canopy. Everyone in the streets and the windows said, “Oh, how fine are the Emperor’s new clothes! Don’t they fit him to perfection? And see his long train!” Nobody would confess that he couldn’t see anything, for that would prove him either unfit for his position, or a fool. No costume the Emperor had worn before was ever such a complete success.
“But he hasn’t got anything on,” a little child said.
“Did you ever hear such innocent prattle?” said its father. And one person whispered to another what the child had said, “He hasn’t anything on. A child says he hasn’t anything on.”
“But he hasn’t got anything on!” the whole town cried out at last.
Jeff “Genius of the Shopping Cart” Gahan has been branding the city in his own image and using our money to do it, but we need collective thinking, not the shoddy veneer of a personality cult.
Far more so than anchors, our foremost branding effort has been devoted to slapping Gahan’s cherubic chihuahua image on every last advertisement purchased with taxpayer dollars. An anchor keeps the boat from moving. Gahan keeps the city from moving, while grandly lubricating his own pockets with pay-to-play dollars from special interests.
And yet the absurd personality cult veneer is what we keep getting, again and again. Here’s a sampling of past comments on this absurdity,as posted at NAC.
December 16, 2018: Cult of personality: Jeff Gahan’s face appears on doggie calendars and in newspaper inserts. It’s blatant electioneering at the taxpayer’s expense.
August 13, 2018: Earache My Eye: Check out Deaf Gahan’s full page Anchor Marriage ad in Extol’s wedding issue.
August 10, 2018: Shameless self-aggrandizement as Gahan invites 1Si to provide career counseling to local students.
June 13, 2018: Jeff “Look at Me” Gahan’s aquatic cult of personality: He brings us health, all by himself.
February 3, 2018: Inflatable Date Night is ultimate proof that Deaf Gahan seeks to emulate Rev. Moon with a hip new...Read more
