Surprise:
The Republican will to power remains ferocious. It will take a dauntless Democratic leader to win back the White House and restore dignity to the Constitution.
Editor’s note: Sidney Blumenthal is joining the Hillary Clinton campaign as a senior advisor, and this is his last column for Salon.
By Sidney Blumenthal
The Edwards campaign confirms that he’ll be walking the Writers Guild picket line tomorrow outside NBC in Burbank.
From a WGA member e-mail obtained by my colleague Jeffrey Ressner:
Tomorrow, there will only be a 6-10am shift at CBS TELEVISION CITY. Those wishing to picket after that, please get your asses to NBC BURBANK. Presidential dreamboat John Edwards will be marching. Don’t bring up 2004
He’s swoony.
Well, at least one otherwise out of work hairdresser is gonna get paid.
The other day Instapundit linked a post that claimed the Hollywood bigwigs were upset about Obama overtly backing the union (I think the sentiment on both sides could be applied more generally to all the Dem candidates). For decades the studios and networks have assisted the left in advancing the false notion of union good/employers bad. Now they find themselves on the other side and are shocked that they are given the same treatment as any other employer.
Stupid cows. Makes sense.
As the Hate America “film” community in Hollywood postures as if all is OK…
Nevermind that one actually… he nails the state of things here…
Things aren’t exactly that dire I don’t think – the system is ultimately more robust and adaptable than Howard allows here, but it’s still a fun read, and we’re definitely going to see movie-business fundamentals shifting sooner rather than later.
Robots ARE dauntless.
Hillary’s a robot.
There you go.
Ruthless is one of those words which makes a person wonder what ruth*full* would be. I am without ruth!
Um…
“The Republican will to power remains ferocious. It will take a dauntless Democratic leader to win back the White House and restore dignity to the Constitution.
Editor’s note: Sidney Blumenthal is joining the Hillary Clinton campaign as a senior advisor, and this is his last column for Salon.”
Dauntless: Adjective
* S: (adj) audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing
At least until Blitzer asks a hard question… then it’s all about being picked on by the boys. Or genocide. Genocide makes them all clammy and stuff. You know, the having to deal with it part. *shudder*
Kresh – Does it strike you as odd that they listed dauntless in the list of synonyms for dauntless?
Of course, the Democrats have no will to power. Where do they come up with such bullshit meaningless phrases?! Do they really talk like that in real life?
Ouch!
I had forgotten about good ol’ Sid.
He should have worked for the third reich.He is amazingly good at subverting language for poliyical gain.
The comments are interesting, too. It’s kinda scary that apparently educated people think that Congress was meant to set policy and put the President in the dunce seat. It makes me think that this country is close to f**ked if the Dem’s do win both branches (not including the judicial branch) of the government in 2008. Playing to ignorance and envy seems to be a good strategy, unfortunately.
I don’t know where these people got their education, but I could almost swear that, no matter where it was, they all took the short bus to school.
From the first link:
The decline in U.S. prestige, as Sid would have it, is the decline in “support” we’ve supposedly seen from European elites who have always disdained America since the collapse of their colonial empires in the aftermath of WWII, even though we’ve provided them with a shield of military defense while they’ve flushed their economies down the toilet with experiments in socialism. Now that I mention it, it’s funny how “U.S. prestige” seems to hinge upon Democrat administrations whose policies track closely with those of the socialists around the world. They didn’t seem to lend much “prestige” to our country during Reagan’s administration, either.
As for the “hollowing out of the federal government’s departments and agencies,” I wonder how Sid would address Billy Jeff’s firing of nearly every United States Attorney as one of his first official acts as President. That’s something that hasn’t really been hashed out in the past year while the Dems and the MSM (I know, I’m being redundant) have been talking about the firing of those seven U.S. Attorneys.
As the late Mel Allen used to ask, “How ’bout that?”
From the title character of the book of Ruth in the Old Testament.
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Is the opposite of dauntless, dauntfull?
All this leaves me not overly ungruntled.
I thought rabies was fatal in humans. Sidney Blumenthal has proven me wrong.
When my daughter was 3, we were practicing her “opposites”. I asked her what the opposite of full was, expecting her to answer empty. She answered hungry. I got a big kick out of that. And then let her have a big bowl of ice cream just in case she was actually hungry.
Let’s see: “not ungruntled” would mean “gruntled” but modified so as not to be overly so. Or might it mean “overly ungruntled”, but modified so as not to be so?
Shit. I think I’ll just start drinking early today. I need to be regruntled.
All of this language talk makes me think about a pet peeve pseudo-word : irregardless.
Any Clintonoid bitching about Republican alleged “will to power” is beyond rich. Since 2000, the whole Clintonoid machine has been gearing their actual, observable will to power to put Hillary! and themselves back into the WH to fuck things up for another 4-8 years.
Well regarding irregardless; regardless of whether or not you are disgruntled, irregardless of any remaining gruntles that may exist, one should be regarding the disgruntled irregardless of the ruthless gruntles regarding their own …
What was I saying? Ooooooo, cupcakes!
If I’m “gruntled”, does that mean I’m happy or does it mean I’m missing a few french fries?
BJ – My brain is spinning. I actually tried to follow and decipher that sentence. My conclusion? BJ is in a better mood today.
Ooooh, now that Sid Vicious is declared himself as PARTISAN, he can’t continue at Salon!!1! OMFG.
And Georgie Stefanopolosobalaclava went from Clinton’s staff to ABC News as an impartial commenter.
Why do they even bother pretending there’s a pink wall of separation between media and politics for the Dems? Does anyone think Sid’ Salon columns would have been any different if Salon hadn’t stopped running them?
Big Dan – it isn’t a even a speedbump; it’s more like a catapult.
It’s actually “daunted”.
Hillary “dauntless”? How ironic. Personally, I’ve always thought of her as less battleship and more battle axe.
BTW, when they inevitably make a movie about the writer’s strike they could call it The Silence of the Hams!
[Rimshot! Thud! Sound of body being dragged off stage.]
Nope, Swen. That would be worse than throwing a slice of ham at a Muslim.
Perhaps they should bring in Barbara Walters in order to build Sen. Clinton up to the level of questioning she should expect?