I know it’s a little early to, again, complain about Morning Edition, but today they played a clip of George Bush’s speech in Texas yesterday about how sad he is that the US has lost 20 Marines this week. I’ve said lots about destroying my clock radio, etc., but now I think I’ve come close to a trigger: If I have to hear Bush’s insulting mock gravitas that he effects by putting pauses where none exist again… I’m telling you…
From the speech:
The men and women who lost their lives…………… in Iraq… in Afghanistan, in this War on Terror… have died in a noble cause… a selfless cause…… their families can know…………. that American citizens…………… pray for them.
When will this smug prick just go a single soldier’s funeral? This rhetorical strawgrasping to create the illusion of grief, mourning, etc., is exactly as I’ve described it: an insult.
PS: I thought it was now the Global Struggle against Violent Extremism. George, isn’t message discipline supposed to be your single virtue?
August 4th, 2005 at 14:39
It’s GSAVE for YOU; GWOT for him: multiple fronts and all, you know.
August 10th, 2005 at 12:14
Thank goodness someone finally mentioned yet another of his pathologies. The above mentioned in particular irked my liver. Rhetorical stawgrasping it is. But wait: here is another that adds more fuel to the fire.