Alex Knapp wrote this post so I wouldn’t have to. Which is a good thing — because I’d only end up recommending to Yglesias that he pick up a bottle of Sauza and a couple of limes, then rent himself a handful of busty hookers from Puerto El Triumfo.
What can I say? The kid works too hard and clearly needs to get his freak on. End of discussion, so far as I’m concerned.
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update: Okay, so the discussion carries on. More from James Joyner, who reminds us of the need to distinguish between the tactical and the strategic. I tried to touch on this yesterday in my own open-ended, eliptical way, but on this question, too, I’m reserving final judgment. Right now, it’s my faith in Bush’s will — even in the face of a hostile press — that keeps me from despairing. But yes, I believe the Bushies need to do more to control the narratives that continue to shape (mostly partially informed) public opinion.
To Knapp’s point, you could have a fine dinner at Windows on the World on September 10, 2001 and proclaim everything is going well…
Damn it Jeff, that kid should have gone to Sergeant Hell’s Correctional School for Miscreant Youth instead of Harvard.
That’s pretty much all I have to say about that.
Did everyone see that Antonio Banderas cried during the Shrek 2 opening and held Justin Timberlake’s hand in a touching moment? This true story will certainly ruin future viewings of The 13th Warrior.
What does that have to do with Yglesias? Well nothing except it of course brings to mind the amazing Enrique and Julio which of course plummets one’s mind inevitably towards one Antonio Banderas…of course.
But yes, I believe the Bushies need to do more to control the narratives that continue to shape (mostly partially informed) public opinion.
Hear-oh-fucking-hear. More speeches. Hire Frum back if he has to. More direct contact with the public, less waiting for whatever spin the NYT wants to lay down on it.
I read somewhere today that he’s planning a speech to the nation soon. Now that “Friends” is over, which is what he was waiting for, evidently.
Am I an asshole for noting that this Yglesias fellow is a fucking 20-something Harvard egghead who provides me daily with the answer that “Yes, it is possible to spend too goddamn much time in a classroom concentatrating on American politics?” I guess that would be an ad-hominy, wouldn’t it? So I guess I’m an asshole.
Talk about your “cycle of violence”. It’s no wonder people want to beat the shit out of intellectuals.
Yes, Scott, it would be an ad-hominy, but we’ll just have to grits our teeth and bear it.
Scott and McGehee,
Thanks for the laugh of the day. A hell of a one-two punch.
(Cleans off screen of newly spewed liquid)
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