You've got my vote, big boy!
Pundits and their giggly, spoodgy mancrushes on rethugs... how ghey is that?
[I]t’s not necessary to be a prophet to know how Beltway pundits will handle the so-called character issue. The Republican nominee will be a virile, decisive straight-shooter who’s 100 percent “authentic” and “comfortable in his own skin.” The Democrat will be an indecisive phony, uncertain of his / her identity, but willing to strike any pose or pander to any constituency in a self-serving bid for power.
Washington TV political chat appears increasingly disconnected from reality. Here’s how the sages on “Hardball,” MSNBC’s answer to junior high school, sum up the GOP hopefuls:
Of course, Fineman’s the same guy who once praised Bush’s kinglike bearing: “He’s a boomer product of the ’60s,” the pundit gushed, “but doesn’t mind ermine robes.”
Fineman actually wrote that under his Newsweek byline.
That’s how it goes on “Hardball” night after night. Mention a prominent Republican and the courtier-pundits swoon like 12-year-old girls at a boy band show.
Washington TV political chat appears increasingly disconnected from reality. Here’s how the sages on “Hardball,” MSNBC’s answer to junior high school, sum up the GOP hopefuls:
“What’s appealing about Rudy Giuliani,” thinks Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, “is not the generous side. What’s appealing about him is the tough cop side.”Another time, Fineman opined that Rudy, a lifelong New Yorker, would have been a heck of a hunter -- um, if he’d grown up in Alabama, I suppose.
“Right,” adds excitable host Chris Matthews. “You just wait until Daddy gets home.”
Of course, Fineman’s the same guy who once praised Bush’s kinglike bearing: “He’s a boomer product of the ’60s,” the pundit gushed, “but doesn’t mind ermine robes.”
Fineman actually wrote that under his Newsweek byline.
That’s how it goes on “Hardball” night after night. Mention a prominent Republican and the courtier-pundits swoon like 12-year-old girls at a boy band show.
-- Gene Lyons.
No kidding! I still get the dry heaves just thinking about Roger Simon ejaculating that Mitt Romney "radiates vigor" and has shoulders you could land a 737 on!" and that "Fred Dalton Thomas's manly thighs can grip my hips like an anaconda!"
3 comments:
I remember a much bleaker "Giuliani Time" in NYC.
Ghouliani? Isn't he the guy who put his Office of Emergency Management in a building that had already been attacked by terrorists - the World Trade Center?
Yeah, he's the guy I want running the country.
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Too bad John Wayne isn't available - he's perfect: gruff, tough-talking, broad-shouldered, walks funny, solves his problems with a gun, married and loves having butt sex with men.
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