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Here’s Mike again, piping up between ash’s two letters to defend an editorial called “Bad Behavior on the Sidelines” he wrote using a dismissive cliché by – you guessed it – coughing up an even flimsier one. Though she had no idea at the time, ash now realizes his flippant comment foreshadowed the showdown when he treated her shoddily on a far more significant matter.
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ash sent this to the blogger Eric Alterman as an “and furthermore” to his running commentary on the professional opinion conveyors who are never as neutral as they purport to be. As of this posting, she has yet to learn whether he’ll publish it in the next day’s correspondence section, which is always a long shot though she’s had some success:
My impression of the difference between The Note and Kurtz – and I never seek out either but let bits and pieces of their respective columns come to me – is that while the former deliberately shills for bigshot insiderism (which translates into Republican spin regardless of who’s in power) the latter really believes he’s playing strictly down the middle.
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It’s ash’s favorite category of humor, the flip side of exaggeration. As the comedian Jerry Seinfeld noted in his routine: If you find your shirt covered in blood, maybe you’ve got bigger problems than which laundry detergent will get out the stains.
On page 2 of Thursday’s edition, the legendary Calvin Trillin wrote, “A panel made up largely of conservative delegates approved platform language that calls for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and opposes legal recognition of any sort of gay civil unions…The draft urges a constitutional ban on abortion…and endorses President Bush’s restrictions on federal financing of stem cell research.
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ash still marvels that this speech occurred before Bush’s reelection to the presidency, which may or may not have been legitimate. In either case, it was close enough to accommodate declaring himself the winner, as he did the first time around. Maybe a significant number of voters really don’t want their candidate to be smarter than they are. If so, it shows:
New York writer Fran Liebowitz opined shortly after 9/11 that President Bush would be prudent never to say anything not written for him, nor ever to stray from the script.