asshattery alive and well on nyt oped page.
washpo chat also vi@ balloon juice:
Louisville, Ky.: Good morning, Philip. Thanks for taking questions. I’m very interested in Palin’s decision to step down from power and return to her work as a family commercial fisherwoman. In my mind this seriously ranks her with Cincinnatus, the Roman general who gave up his dictatorship to return to his plowing, and with George Washington, who was a hero in the American Revolution, but gave up his presidential command over the young nation to return to his farm. Do you agree with my assessment? Don’t you think that this brilliant move places Sarah Palin in the same league as George Washington and Cincinnatus?
Philip Rucker: There are lots of Palin questions, so let’s start with this one. You raise an interesting point. I’m not sure I ever thought of Sarah Palin as a modern day George Washington or Cincinnatus.
I think she's closer to Dolph Briscoe, who returned to his ranch in Uvalde TX, except for the part where Dolph Briscoe won two gubernatorial elections and didn't resign.
Also, too, I don't remember Geo. Washington giving his farewell address 30 months into his first term.
Also, also, too, where did I read the QUESTION about Ross Douthat in which the questioner was WONDERING *((out loud))* if "Dout" was German for "ass"?
Also Dolph wasn't a sarcastic idiot.
ill assume you both realize the questioner was being sarcastic, or at least i presume he/she was. noones that blinkered.
It is great sarcasm (as opposed to the Palin variety) but I'm not sure if Rucker caught it. I'm pretty out of it on Palin--what's the reference to "her work as a family commercial fisherwoman" about?
(I guess I thought it could be sarcasm or someone exactly that blinkered. I chime in whenever there is a Dolph Briscoe reference.)
Also, Dolph never gave anyone starbursts.
The questioner sounds like either a weisenhimer or a cross between Victor Davis Hanson and Tony Blankley (of the Wash. Times and Town Hall), who was effusive about Palin on Meet the George.
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- dave 7-06-2009 6:28 pm
washpo chat also vi@ balloon juice:
Louisville, Ky.: Good morning, Philip. Thanks for taking questions. I’m very interested in Palin’s decision to step down from power and return to her work as a family commercial fisherwoman. In my mind this seriously ranks her with Cincinnatus, the Roman general who gave up his dictatorship to return to his plowing, and with George Washington, who was a hero in the American Revolution, but gave up his presidential command over the young nation to return to his farm. Do you agree with my assessment? Don’t you think that this brilliant move places Sarah Palin in the same league as George Washington and Cincinnatus?
Philip Rucker: There are lots of Palin questions, so let’s start with this one. You raise an interesting point. I’m not sure I ever thought of Sarah Palin as a modern day George Washington or Cincinnatus.
- dave 7-06-2009 7:44 pm
I think she's closer to Dolph Briscoe, who returned to his ranch in Uvalde TX, except for the part where Dolph Briscoe won two gubernatorial elections and didn't resign.
Also, too, I don't remember Geo. Washington giving his farewell address 30 months into his first term.
Also, also, too, where did I read the QUESTION about Ross Douthat in which the questioner was WONDERING *((out loud))* if "Dout" was German for "ass"?
- mark 7-06-2009 8:04 pm
Also Dolph wasn't a sarcastic idiot.
- tom moody 7-06-2009 10:08 pm
ill assume you both realize the questioner was being sarcastic, or at least i presume he/she was. noones that blinkered.
- dave 7-06-2009 10:17 pm
It is great sarcasm (as opposed to the Palin variety) but I'm not sure if Rucker caught it. I'm pretty out of it on Palin--what's the reference to "her work as a family commercial fisherwoman" about?
- tom moody 7-06-2009 10:35 pm
(I guess I thought it could be sarcasm or someone exactly that blinkered. I chime in whenever there is a Dolph Briscoe reference.)
- tom moody 7-06-2009 10:37 pm
Also, Dolph never gave anyone starbursts.
The questioner sounds like either a weisenhimer or a cross between Victor Davis Hanson and Tony Blankley (of the Wash. Times and Town Hall), who was effusive about Palin on Meet the George.
- mark 7-06-2009 11:54 pm