The Fair Vanity of Annie Leibovitz

Nobody’s Perfect: Nobody can take a rich and famous person’s naked body and put it into the realm of breathtaking beauty and ego, and also show that ego’s tremendous sense of power, like Annie Leibovitz. She can even make them look great with clothes on!

I would personally like to thank her for making Yoko Ono keep her clothes on in the famous picture of the naked John Lennon cuddling his lover. She was exactly right in that call. After all, we had all seen Yoko without her clothes. Seeing Yoko’s naked body was much like hearing her sing. Put a naked, singing Yoko in a big room and you could explode an egg at a distance of thirty feet…

I’m just saying.

Annie has the talent to not only capture the whole persona of any person before her camera, but also what’s going on in that’s person’s mind in that point in time. She takes these people and gives them immortality on Mt. Olympus’s highest peak.

That’s why she gets the big bucks.

But, Nobody’s Perfect, and we have been finding out just how perfection slips into a black hole when it comes to the money of the rich and famous. So many of them just have no clue how to watch out for their wealth…like their politics, they simply follow the leads of their friends. And now it seems the lady who works mostly for Vanity Fair is now going to have to give up her life’s work because she put it up for collateral to finance loans.

How stupid was that?

So, why did she need the loans? I couldn’t find that answer. Three Houses filled with rare artifacts: Three children and a woman lover to buy for…money for hundreds of camera’s…who knows?

Evidently, she maybe forgot to take a good picture of Bernie Madoff---big mistake.

Vanity Fair, the magazine that Annie works for, has been on a regular crusade of notational Olympic proportions in recording every one who ever knew Bernie and his wife, Ruth. They interviewed their hairdressers and the whole population of Palm Beach, including the cabana boys. They interviewed investors in Aspen, and the poor lonely secretary who thought Bernie was just…weird.

Uncle Bernie knew the old trick of “hard to get” and got the rich so excited when he accepted their money, that they handed him everything. Palm Beach was gleefully wiped out. Katrina was mild compared to Hurricane Bernie. It’s almost as if he was a double agent for Bin Laden…but that’s a conspiracy even I won’t touch. (But I might later…give me time.)

We are now left wondering, what “species” (a new Alan Greenspan word for the human race) is going to move into the empty Palm Beach houses now?

The Russians? The Saudis? Iranians? Jeffery Immelt and his family?

But---if Annie is having problems, so is Ruth, Bernie’s wife. She had to turn off her air- conditioning in her million-dollar penthouse in order to save on money. She even had to go to the grocery store by herself. No more eating out. $2.5 million is a big adjustment, but something tells me, she’ll manage fine.

Here’s where most of us get …perturbed. (Good word--- perturbed.)

While Vanity Fair can go on endlessly about the reincarnated Beelzebub Bernie, who stole from mostly the Jewish rich, there is not a word in the magazine on the corruption of our current rich, ponzi pushing politicians in Washington, D.C.. They make Bernie look like a young Pinocchio stealing a piece of bubble gum, compared to the current load of Ponzella’s: Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, Congress, and the White House.

They got away with sealing trillions from the American people. (Some report as high as $93 trillion when it is all added up.) And they’re not finished.

No wonder we can’t go to Mars.

And why is that? Because the rich and our government are indelibly tied to what controls the money and power in the country and that stolen future is off the American people. And the one thing they all have in common is that they always claim when caught in a crime that…” They didn’t know.”

The “I didn’t know.” defense is the very first thing they all say, about any crime.

Bill Clinton didn’t know about Vernon Jordon meeting with Monica, trying to cut deals.
Senator Rangel didn’t know about the millions of his unreported income.
Obama didn’t know he was sitting in a communistic racist church for twenty years.
Hillary didn’t know that Bill was fooling around. (She also never remembers much.)
A whole slew of high government officials didn’t know about the vast slew of FBI reports that Al Qaeda was going run planes into the twin towers.

And Ruth Madoff didn’t know what her husband did, even though she took care of the books for all their lives.

Right.

I do feel pity for Annie Leibovitz. Her great works of art will soon be in someone else’s hands. But there is a lesson here.

Our Constitution is the finest work of political art ever conceived by mankind, and so, it’s going to be up to us not to lose it in some Bernie Madoff scam of Barack Inc.

Annie can always take some great pictures of Bernie in Jail, and sell them to all those people who he ripped off. She’ll make her fortune back quickly.

But if we the American people let these Bernie Madoffs in our government steal our country away, we won’t have the same chance as Annie.

This time, we must be…perfect. We must be absolutely---vain.