… let’s call the whole thing off.
Wow. Just, wow.
To create their “Protestgate” theme, its architects had to… oh, what shall we call it… what word really fits… oh,I know! Lie! Lie through their teeth! That’s it! The link really is quite extraordinary. Or it would be if we had not been treated to decades of mendacity from the left on these matters. John Kerry, anyone, mispronouncing “Genghis Khan” before a Senate committee and defaming all who fought in Vietnam? Various Journo-gates over the years? Dan Rather and The Deeper Truth, which apparently is to be found in memos composed retroactively in Microsoft Word, and printed on laser printers?
At least Max Baucus gives us something less, well, pedantically rigorous to think about than picayune things like whether what his party is saying is true or not. (What, after all, is truth?)
This is bound to offend someone out there, but if I had to pick a composer to compare Obama’s oratorical style to, it would be Edward Elgar. Hey, there’s not a lot else to do when there’s no Deeper Truth, not even any Shallow Truth, or in fact Truth at any Layer at all, coming from the Symphonic One’s Anvil Chorus (OK, OK, that’s opera — and a whole other composer, genre, and set of aesthetic reflexes…).
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What do they put in the food at the White House?
August 5th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I would have said Philip Glass; repetitive and mind-numbing.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
A very fine suggestion, aelfheld. (Glass.) Perhaps there will be a vote later, if more suggestions come in.
It’s not that I hate English composers or anything, but Ralph Vaughan Williams also occurred to me. Elgar won by a hair.
August 5th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Shostakovich.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:29 am
I got go with aelfheld on this one. Or John Cage. (What comes out of his mouth is unpredictable.)
Not sure what you have against Elgar. And, btw, J.E., it’s Sir Edward Elgar to you. Yeesh, you have a thing for refusing to use people’s titles—Senator Boxer (whom I believe you called “ma’am).
August 6th, 2009 at 8:53 am
Yanni, Mantovani, John Tesch or some other semi-classical guy. Paul Whiteman’s Wagner renditions also come to mind.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:03 am
I can think of no music horrid enough to compare with 0bie’s flat, arrogant monotone.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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