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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 02, 2010, 12:11:33 pm ---I thought that before the U.S. election was over, I should read Nicholas Lemann's article on Harry Reid in the Oct. 25 issue. I'm glad I did because I didn't know that Reid had said that George W. Bush "is an ideologue who has done incalculable damage to the government, reputation, and moral standing of the United States of America," a position with which I completely agree.
I also didn't know that Reid had twice publicly called Bush a liar, and then explained, as if for the simple-minded, "When one lies, one is a liar." ;D
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hehe!!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on October 30, 2010, 11:52:56 am ---I read the New Yorker's profile of Gawker Media founder Nick Denton the other night, just before Gawker.com published some anonymous guy's reprehensible account of his (non)sexual encounter with Christine O'Donnell. I bet the New Yorker is wishing they'd held the piece another week. But their profile was a good preparation for happening on the O'Donnell post -- Denton comes across as interesting but unlikable. Now I've just upgraded him to loathsome.
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While I haven't read the Gawker piece, I do find it difficult to believe that anyone could do more damage to Christine O'Donnelll than she could do to herself. Nevertheless, I read the Nick Denton piece over lunch yesterday.
What a thoroughly unlikable individual. :P
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on November 03, 2010, 08:45:50 am ---While I haven't read the Gawker piece, I do find it difficult to believe that anyone could do more damage to Christine O'Donnelll than she could do to herself. Nevertheless, I read the Nick Denton piece over lunch yesterday.
What a thoroughly unlikable individual. :P
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Oh, I don't think the Gawker piece damaged her. It probably won her some sympathy votes. But you're right, she's her own worst enemy.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 03, 2010, 09:09:13 am ---Oh, I don't think the Gawker piece damaged her. It probably won her some sympathy votes. But you're right, she's her own worst enemy.
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But as John says, she probably has a bright future on Fox News. :laugh:
Jeff Wrangler:
Today at lunch I began to read, but did not finish, Lauren Collins's article in the Oct. 25 issue about David Cameron's "Big Society" program in Britain.
I was delighted to learn that there is a hamlet in central Dorsetshire named Shitterton. ;D
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