Thursday
Some headlines just speak for themselves. (Via Andrew Sullivan)
The other day a talk radio caller said that Bush should emulate that hero to the radical left Fidel Castro - by passing his office to his brother Jeb.
Posted by Alan K. Henderson at August 3, 2006 05:11 AM
I suppose you have to belong to the illuminati to get the joke. Sullivan, of course, has the unique vision of a man stuck in his own navel.
Posted by chuck at August 3, 2006 05:26 AM
From the Samizdata 'mission statement':
"The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling."
Posted by Scott Wickstein at August 3, 2006 08:24 AM
Scott, I suspect some genuine Bushies cannot believe that a libertarian blog - like this one - actually dares to take the piss out of Dubya. Well, as Scott said, take a look at the message on the right of the blog, folks. It does not say this is a Republican blog.
I can see why some folk have become fed up with Andrew Sullivan, though. In the days immediately after 9/11, Sully was quite happy to brand leftwing opponents of the Iraqi invasion as a potential "5th column". He has, to be fair, since retracted that, but Sullivan is a bit of a shoot-from-the-hip commentator. He also has a habit of assuming that because other bloggers like Glenn Reynolds do not spend all their bandwidth cursing Bush they are therefore, somehow, guilty of supporting him regardless. Sullivan has become a bit of a bully.
Posted by Johnathan Pearce at August 3, 2006 08:35 AM
If you replace 'President Bush' with 'Prime Minister Blair' the article remains coherent and, given the original intention of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, more accurate.
Posted by Laughing Cavalier at August 3, 2006 08:53 AM
Real life does mimic the Onion at times... this sounds quite like what Hero Of The Revolution Abraham Lincoln did from 1861 onwards. So there is a very long Republican tradition here.
Posted by Dale Amon at August 3, 2006 12:19 PM
Sullivan has become a bit of a bully.
Bit of a bore would be more accurate.
...this sounds quite like what Hero Of The Revolution Abraham Lincoln did from 1861 onwards.
On that scale I would rate the presidents so:
1) Lincoln
2) Roosevelt
3) Wilson
4) Johnson
5) Nixon
6) Kennedy
Johnson and Kennedy were more undercover than the higher ranked presidents.
Real life does mimic the Onion at times
Humor has its age groups.
gradeschool/highschool: Mad Magazine and Cracked.
college: The Onion
young adult: the old National Lampoon
grownups: ScrappleFace? PJ O'Rourke?
Posted by chuck at August 3, 2006 05:47 PM
