It Was A Dark And Stormy Night …
I know the Bulwer-Lytton deadline is eight months out, but here’s an early nomination. The breathless indignation is … simply breathtaking. The overwriting … deeply, ponderously overwrought. Shaun Mullen, house bleeding heart handwringer kneejerk conspiracy theorizing Kumayahist** at the Moderate Voice, with The Staggering Cyncism of John McCain, whose campaign apparently was imploding before his cynicism went into full lurch:
Ploy. Flailing. Cut and run. Stunt. Bizarre. Choking. Preemptive. Gimmicky. Brilliant. Retreat. Cowardly. Desperate. Surreal. Those are but a few of the words being used to describe McCain, but I think these sum it up best: Staggering cynicism.
You’re really going to want to read the whole thing, which starts with a great Dark and Stormy Night line, “The familiar frat boy smirk was absent when George Bush went before the nation last night to cry wolf.”
Related, entertainingly: Bill Clinton via ABC’s Political Radar, McCain acted in “good faith” in calling for debate delay, Bush knows what he’s talking about:
“We know he didn’t do it because he’s afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates,” Clinton said, adding that he was “encouraged” by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.
“You can put it off a few days the problem is it’s hard to reschedule those things,” Clinton said, “I presume he did that in good faith since I know he wanted — I remember he asked for more debates to go all around the country and so I don’t think we ought to overly parse that.”
If the debate moves forward as planned for Friday night, Clinton says “they should be able to talk about this some of the debate because it is a security issue.”
The former president thought Bush’s address Wednesday night on the economic crisis had a “positive reaction”.
“I thought it was the clearest statement of why we’re in the fix we’re in, at least what the nature of it is and why some national action is needed,” Clinton said.
* Arguably this submission isn’t fiction, but Mullen’s grasp of reality is so tenuous and his handling of facts creatively cavalier enough, with attendant high dramatics, that the distinction becomes irrelevant.
** Please let me know if I left any hackneyed lefty cliches out. They all work.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:46 am on Thursday, September 25, 2008
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September 25th, 2008 at 9:29 am
** Please let me know if I left any hackneyed lefty cliches out. They all work.
You forgot to blame Bush.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Seething. Delusional. Irrational. False sense of entitlement. Ahistorical. Silly. Blinkered. Cult-think. Petulant. Shrill. Dimwitted. Pompous. Dumb. Those are but a few of the words used to describe Mullen…
September 25th, 2008 at 11:55 am
If you look at the world through a lens of cynicism, as Mullen apparently does, you will find it in other people. Especially those people who disagree with you.