The Uncredible Dog And Pony Show: Merkel And Sarkozy

Monday, October 10, 2011
By Paul Martin

by Charles Hugh Smith
ZeroHedge.com
10/10/2011

Does anyone take the Merkel-Sarkozy dog and pony show seriously any more? Perception management is not a solution.

For the past 18 months, every time reality threatens to intrude in Europe, Merkel and Sarkozy rush onto the global stage for a repeat performance of their dog-and-pony show. The global media declares it an artistic triumph and the “solution” to Europe’s insolvency.

The fact that we’ve seen the exact same performance repeated again and again appears to be lost on the financial media, which never tires of declaring “this is the solution that will end the European bank crisis.”

A few days or weeks later, reality once again intrudes, the ugly truth of systemic insolvency rears its frightening head once again, and the Dynamic Duo of Eurozone political theater rush onto stage for another tiresome performance of their cliche-ridden dog-and-pony show.

Few in the corporate media stop to even ask if the dog and the pony even have the power to summarily re-capitalize banks and all the rest of their grandiose pronouncements. Few dare observe that Merkel and Sarkozy might as well demand the seas divide; the situation is out of their control, and their theatrics are all in service of percepotion management, i.e. to foster the illusion they still grasp some meaningful control over the situation (they don’t) and the the situation is controllable by manipulation of perception (it isn’t).

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