DC:
Do you have a regular, published column somewhere I'm not aware of? I'm thinkin' Mencken or Thruber is alive down there in Lone Star.
But I digress. Except for some years in the American South, I've lived all my life around these sinister, swarthy Mediterranean types. Suffering fools gladly. Forget...about....it. Brushing fingertips across the chin is just the first M & M in a ten-pound bag of colorful Getouttahere gestures leading up to the laying on of hands.
You bring just the right amount of contempt to these pinafore and bloomer wearing sissies at The Herald, too. Except for a few in the war zones, most journalists don't even touch the ground when they move down the street, so light is their masculinity...except for hairy-handed brutes like Christianne Amanpour. Now there's a real man!
Just tracked down an interesting column by Ronald Cass published at RealClearPolitics.
Cass contends that Scalia, and probably other Justices described as "conservative", are the foci of a lib media effort to disparage them, and attach to them public images which undermine their legitimacy. No. Impossible.
For Scalia, at this moment, the effort is to suggest that a serious Catholic is unsuitable for the SCOTUS. Scalia's gotten a lot of press attention lately, most of it unflattering. Conspiracies in the lefty media? Never. It's worse. They wait for the lib intelligentsia (broadcast media and academics) to tell them what to think, and then they think it.
Even if Justice Scalia did flip off the urinalist, so what, I think its hilarious, and for the left to make such a big deal of it, is just as rediculous and shows their true intent is to degrade any Normal thinking individual, as not being of the proper stature and thinking, which of course they have, since all lefitsts are themselves highly sophisticated, educated and all their other critical nonsense. When Kerry was caught on tape ripping one of his foes using a lot worse that merely flipping someone off,(because from now on that jesture will be referred to as flipping someone off, because the Stalinsit press is never wrong) it didn't even make to the comic section
Smugness doesn't escape reporters in any generation, after touring Pattons quarters in Scicily reporters noticed a Bible on his nite stand, and asked the General if he read the Bible, and Patton replied, "Every Goddamn day".
Mark,
Hilarious. Patton was the best. Great summation.
Rhod, that first comment of yours is just pricelss. Floating? So light is their masculinity? Except Christiane Amanpour? Pinafore and bloomers? You're killing me, man.
You both get the picture and I think you're right: They're trying to do a preemptive strike to keep off any more Roberts or Alitos.
Glad you all enjoyed it. Felt like a chuckle on this Friday. And you gave me one back.
Every so often a prominent political conservative (I'll throw Scalia in that definition even though he is not supposed to be political) acts boldly in completely disregarding political correctness and makes me proud to be a conservative. This incident is one of those events.
My favorite incident was provided by Don Rumsfeld. When we in the early fighting in Afghanistan he was accusingly asked why the US was using cluster bombs. He replied, "we are trying to kill people - and cluster bombs are very effective for killing people" (I paraphrase). Whatever you think of Rumsfeld - in that one moment he ended all discussion of whether using any particular weapon was "too mean". Weeks later when we dropped some Daisy Cutters - no press had the guts to ask whether a Daisy Cutter was too harsh.
Cruiser,
That's a great point about Rumsfeld. I like to tell my boys something that is important, I think, and illustrated by such events: Whatever situation you are in, act like you know what you are doing. Do what you know is right and don't step lightly. It's amazing how people will respond if you act in such a way.
This way you set the tone. Scalia need not apologize for this (unless he really didn't flip them off). We need no apologize for dropping Daisy Cutters (hands over your hearts, please). We need not apologize for being Americans.
Go boldly. Do what's right. Expect to win.
I still like Rumsfeld. He knows how to treat a woman (i.e., reporter).
Bloomers? Pinafores? Geez.
Oh DC, I'm sorry I evoked the memory of Thruber to praise you. I didn't mean Jmaes Thruber, I meant James Thurber. Or was it Jack Thurber? One of those guys.
Bloomers go with middy blouses, dammit. I forgot. Pinafores go with little Donald Duck shorts with big buttons, shoes with straps, and white straw hats with blue ribbons on the hatband. The Anderson Cooper, David Gregory and Keith Olberman Collection seen at fine Perfumeries everywhere.
Do I like Rumsfeld? You bet. Is he always right about everything? Sure. Does he give print dopes a hard time? Of course. Do they deserve it. Damn right.
I'll leave now.
Rhod,
Don't worry. I will be fine. Thanks for the kind words. I just can't stop giggling after I looked up "pinafore". Oh, my.
Your reference the manly Amanpour brings to mind that great Paul Shanklin classic remake of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" (which became "Wholesome Prison Blues" ... by Billy C., singing about a nice women's prison he was going to send Hillary to).
The best line is where Shanklin changes "I shot a man in Reno" to ... "I got a man in Reno."
That is good stuff there.
Oh, man ... now, I can't get those Donald Duck shorts and big buttons out of my head.
Big buttons ... on Gregory? The horrah.
Alls I know about Pinafores is that I played Dick Deadeye in our 3rd Grade production of the "HMS Pinafore".
I was a hit, and I got to say "damn".
Now, the circle is complete.
So you're an English MAN? Or is that Madame Butterfly? Oh well, I'll drop the subject.
Nah, you're right, English MAN is from HMS Pinafore . . unfortunately the vision of DC in a pinafore, oh, no!! (did your knobby knees show, DC?)
Loved the Scalia gesture, don't care what the hell your politics are, if the reporter was IN the church taking a picture Scalia can Italian gesture whatever he likes.
Geezzz.
Hear, hear, JulieB. I knew you would appreciate it.
Hey, did you know that Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg are apparently buddies. No kidding. They get together with their spouses all the time.
Scalia seems like a great guy, with a super sense of humor. The demonization just won't work.
Plus, he has a voice for reading children's books.
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