Yes, the ritual was silly in so many ways: the juvenile attempts to scare the initiates, the pseudomystical slogan “Death Equals Death” (well, duh!), the obscene bullying (“Lick my bumhole, Neophyte!”), the skull-kissing, the throat-slashing tableau that had a lot to learn from Scream 3. You can read the details of our videotape caper in the ApObserver perhaps you saw some snatches of the videotape as played on ABC’s World News Tonight or Fox News Television, or perhaps you heard the cries and whispers on NPR and other radio outlets. In that story we revealed, for the first time, details of Skull and Bones’ long-secret initiation rite, based on videotapes made from a clandestine perch overlooking the courtyard of the Skull and Bones Tomb on the Yale campus in New Haven. I only learned about the dishonorable and inept Skull and Bones attempt to “fuck with that prick” on Saturday, June 20, when I got word that galleys were circulating of a book about Skull and Bones that claimed to discredit a story published here in The Observer on April 23, 2001. That prick, the target of this pathetic, sub-Tarantino, phony-macho imprecation was-not to put too fine a point on it- me. It’s the voice of the initiate quoted in the original galleys of the book that Little, Brown has now had to revise, the voice of the overprivileged, under-intelligent Skull and Bones punk who “laughed heartily” and boasted, “We just wanted to fuck with that prick.” We’ve heard these values expressed in the voice of a young initiate of the secret society, which professes to devote itself to the ideals of leadership, public service and the elite fellowship of “Good Men.” Bush.īecause he’s a values guy, George W., and this is a values story: a story about the true nature of the values inculcated by the President’s secret society, as well as the values of New York publishing and Ivy League ambition.Īt last we know, at last we’ve heard the authentic voice of Skull and Bones at last we’ve learned the true ethos of the Yale secret society that counts two Presidents named Bush and countless bankers, Senators, spies, diplomats, publishers, Supreme Court justices and other American potentates as its members. The whole affair has turned into a juicy literary and political scandal that reaches from the Tomb of Skull and Bones in New Haven to the temple of publishing that is AOL Time Warner (founded by Henry Luce, Skull and Bones ’20)-and, who knows, perhaps even to the White House, where this latest instance of embarrassing Skull and Bones behavior can’t be pleasing to its most prominent member, George W. It would all be a lot more pure fun if the inept attempt at a dirty trick played by one Skull and Bones member (I think we’ll call him Deep Dunce)-and perhaps others-hadn’t threatened to blight with error a new book by a young journalist victimized by Deep Dunce’s deceit.
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