Who spaketh?

Who spaketh? Gentlemen, we live in an age of advertisement, the age of Holloway’s pills, of Coleman’s mustard, and of Horniman’s pure tea; and the policy of lavish advertisement has been so successful in commerce that the Liberal Party, with its usual enterprise, has adopted it to politics. The Prime Minister is the greatest living master of the art of this, whether it be for the purposes of health, or of recreation, or of religious devotion, is spread before the eyes of every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom on large and glaring placards...For the purposes of recreation, he has selected the felling of trees; and w may usefully remark that his amusements, like his politics, are essentially destructive. Every afternoon the whole world is invited to assist in the crashing fall of some beech or elm or oak. The forest laments, in order Mr. Gladstone may perspire...” Lord Randolph Churchill’s speech in 1884 can be updated by 3 substitutions. The “Prime Minister” = President Obama “Advertisement” = media propaganda “Felling of trees” = total transformation ( destruction) of America 3 strikes we’re out in 2013