The two frequencies of Voice of America were talking daily about the first harvests coming in from the southern Midwest, of cattle being driven, and it all sounded to him like the old Chinese and Soviet broadcasts of the Cold War when they boasted daily about their great strides even while people lived in squalor and indeed did die of starvation.
Yes. You know what that's called? Relating your experience to a story! Funny how it's only OK when he does it. But it's absurd when others do