All of you oligarchs bound to lose
Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Anderson, former host of the radio program Studio 360, offers the mainstream press what seems like sound advice for a blindfolded nation riding the slippery slope to kleptocracy:
Serious question/suggestion. The press (and normal people) routinely refer to the billionaire allies of Russia’s corrupt autocratic president as oligarchs. Shouldn’t the U.S. press routinely also call the politically influential billionaire media allies of the would-be autocratic U.S. president—Musk, Bezos, Ellison—oligarchs?
Anderson, author of “Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America,” founded Spy in 1988 with Graydon Carter, the originator of “short-fingered vulgarian” as shorthand (pun intended) for Donald Trump.
If you are particularly disheartened by yesterday’s non-rollout of the Epstein files and need a healing belly-laugh, behold this brilliant takedown of PR firms from Spy (April 1992): Bunny Burgers. A SPECIAL, INANELY ELABORATE SPY EASTER PRANK
Happy Hollandaise, everyone.