An eye opening experience I had as a young Secret Service agent was the experiences I had as the “press agent.”
Newer agents on the president’s detail are assigned to babysit the press because that’s where you’ll do the least damage if you screw something up. I would sit with them all day on trips and fly back home on the “press plane” with them.
Some conclusions I drew from many hours and days of immersion with them:
1) Most of them are genuine imbeciles. Their conversations ranged from absurd to ignorant, to downright ridiculous.
2) They love to stand in judgment of others but, in the pre-cell phone camera era, they would engage in some of the worst debauchery you’ve ever seen on those planes. They’re really a disgusting group of people.
3) Most of them really despise Americans who actually work for a living. They consider themselves part of a community of knighted aristocrats and they look down on the people they’re supposed to cover.
I saw it. And you should treat these losers with the respect they deserve, meaning none at all.
When I was younger. I was a honest man in a dishonest world.L. I knew , let me say that again, knew some. Grew up in that type of environment. I was not a user . That’s here in America not Mexico. All died young. Some of those had family members working for the Cartel. Caring for horses things like that. One guy that did something they didn’t like was dismembered in the desert. He was found later. One got his neck broke mysteriously one night . Outside his tailor. No that world isnt long gone. It’s just gotten worse. I was a party animal. But, you shouldn’t burn the candle from both ends.
