Throw Granny Under the Bus, Hug the Store-Front Preacher, Affect Magnanimity

One of the early responders to the Obama speech praised it by saying that the senator appeals to the “winners and losers” of the American experience. This is a common case of a mainstream figure tripping over the fatal flaw in the American Left’s narrative, hitting his head and taking the ensuing flash of whiteContinue reading “Throw Granny Under the Bus, Hug the Store-Front Preacher, Affect Magnanimity”

Has-Beens, Take Me Away!

It’s a familiar and cynical cliche that the masses “crave a strong leader.” This commonplace endures because it is so often demonstrably true. The priesthood of today’s prevailing order, mainstream media punditry, occasionally demonstrates this with the unintentional comedy of paeans extolling, say, the masculine vigor of a particular favored politician (think of of ChrisContinue reading “Has-Beens, Take Me Away!”