Roger Simon is old enough to remember when
tie-dye was only in black and white.

Roger Simon, head bedwetter at PeePeeMedia takes time out from whatever it is that he does to write:

Trapped on a Delta flight from JFK to LAX yesterday, I watched a lot more CNN than I normally do, slogging through the Situation Room followed Ms. Campbell Brown augmented by a chorus of Obama idolaters that made David Gergen, of all people, seem like the voice of reason. (He was the only one to even mention McCain in a show that lasted close to half an hour.)

Today I noticed an article by Brown on the CNN site that encapsulates her show – Behind the Scenes: Demand for change strong forty years later. Here’s a taste:

In America in the late ’60s, a generation was grappling with an unpopular war and an unpopular president. The country was impatient; there were massive pressures for social change.

I am struck with the photos of the millions along the tracks, a spontaneous outpouring of grief, uniting Americans of all races and all ages — rich and poor alike.

Etc., etc. What’s interesting is Brown herself was born in 1968. She didn’t get her chance to "turn on, tune in, drop out" like us oldsters. If she had, she might not feel exactly the same way, making the familiar but absurd equation between those "unpopular wars" Vietnam and Iraq (and, by extension, the War on Terror). She and many others like her of her age seem to have developed a form of "generation envy" that clouds their thinking, a kind of nostalgia for nothing. They missed out on being cool, dropping acid and listening to "The White Album." Well, I’m sorry – you’ll just have to live with it.

Actually what is interesting is that, when Campbell Brown comments upon the outpouring of grief over the death of Bobby Kennedy, Simon dismisses it with a wave and "etc, etc.". I guess "yadda yadda yadda" would have been too, oh, I don’t know, callous, because RFK is soooo yesterday unless Roger needs a little biographical street cred to show that he was there, man:

From the 1960s until somewhat recently, Simon was a radical left-winger who supported every trendy cause of the era: the civil-rights movement, Vietnam War protests, the Black Panthers, Latin American revolutions, Chairman Mao, Fidel Castro. He hobnobbed with other leftist writers and frequently traveled to Communist countries.

Then came OJ:

Simon says the seed of his political conversion was planted well before 9/11. It actually began during the O. J. Simpson trial in 1995. Like millions of others, he watched incredulously as the jury acquitted Simpson despite overwhelming physical and circumstantial evidence against him. "I think a lot of people changed during the O.J. trial," he says. "It changed our perception of truth and fiction."

And it took the totally unrelated attack on the World Trade Towers to dampen his Dockers and push him over the edge, renouncing everything that he ever believed in.

That, and a chance to cash in on some of that wingnut welfare in his autumnal years with fellow fabulist Michael Ledeen:

At present he’s also co-writing a screenplay with Michael Ledeen, a foreign-policy expert and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who is also an NRO regular. Simon is keeping the project close to his vest, and will say only that it is a thriller related to the war on terror.

Yes. That Michael Ledeen.

In the meantime, Campbell Brown is going to have to start stockpiling some of her own memories so that, when she gets to be Roger’s age, she can explain how President Barack Obama turned us into the Afro-United States of Funkadelica-Bambaata and everyone finally learned to dance but then the Norwegians attacked us because our stereos were cranked up too loud and we wouldn’t turn them down.

The Obama Era was the best three days America ever had….

Never forget.