The Fly

If you watched the vice presidential debate on Wednesday night, you probably already know that a common housefly was the star of the show.

The current Vice President, Michael Pence, was arrogant and obnoxious and rude and sexist, but not nearly as much as Trump. He also looked sickly, was his usual wooden self, and was as impervious to the truth as always.

But then a common house fly landed on Pence's head and sat there for nearly three minutes. And he did nothing. He didn't try to wave it away with a joke. He just talked on and on like an automaton.

David Frum wrote a smart, short piece about that fly (link here) in The Atlantic. An excerpt:

Pence's doing nothing about the fly "somehow in one powerful visual moment concentrated everything. It symbolized the whole Pence vice presidency, the determined, willful refusal to acknowledge the most blaring and glaring negative realities. Through all of the scandals and the crimes and the disasters of the past four years, Mike Pence was the man who pretended not to notice. And now there was a fly on his head, and he pretended not to notice that too."

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