tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post1549701460915465592..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: WHY LET THE FACTS GET IN THE WAY OF A GOOD NARRATIVE?Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-58648474003471480592016-01-20T19:53:07.837-05:002016-01-20T19:53:07.837-05:00A movie inciting violence from deranged religious ...A movie inciting violence from deranged religious fanatics?<br /><br />A great talking point! <br /><br /><i>Innocence of Texans</i>, anyone?Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17803231988989969133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-18519372114789412862016-01-18T16:21:09.136-05:002016-01-18T16:21:09.136-05:00Leaving dirty work to the servants has been a trad...Leaving dirty work to the servants has been a traditional upper class mannerism that goes back at least to the 15th Century. Vlad the Impaler calmly ate lunch and watched while his his underlings threaded poles up the rectums and out of the upper torsos of thousands of his own subjects, the better to scare off the invading Turks.<br /><br />I don't mean to imply that any of the Bushes would go that far, so don't jump all over me. I'm just saying.<br /><br />Yours very crankily,<br />The New York CrankThe New York Crankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04489472134701718697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-22020428310628591892016-01-18T09:58:08.428-05:002016-01-18T09:58:08.428-05:00Building on Chai T Chu'an's comment - the ...Building on Chai T Chu'an's comment - the good manners the Bush family was supposedly raised on didn't take with George W. Bushm either - leaving Senator Max Cleland sitting in the Texas dust, refusing to accept his letter condemning Swift-boating; refusing to meet with a grieving mother. Dubya was petty, churlish, small-minded and insecure. Whatever personal failings led him to being a drunk remained even after he swore off the booze. You can come from a rich family, and still be poor in spirit.Glennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03681336164718681936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-57789779720195120592016-01-17T13:26:58.452-05:002016-01-17T13:26:58.452-05:00His enduring image is of a youthful Mr. Bush “play...<i>His enduring image is of a youthful Mr. Bush “playing tennis in tennis whites” — a white Lacoste shirt, white shorts and canvas sneakers.<br /><br />“I’ll never forget Jeb kind of stepping back to take a high popper — a kind of lob — and doing an overheard smash that was so loud that it sent the ball down and then up onto the roof behind his opponents,” Mr. Bruner said.</i><br /><br />While <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/02/01/tumultuous-four-years-phillips-academy-helped-shape-jeb-bush/q6ccyHNOtP1n6kqDokMBfK/story.html" rel="nofollow">others remember him selling dope in the dorm and bullying the scrawny and weak at Philips Andover</a>, showing plenty of leadership if your idea of leadership comes from Lord of the Flies. And<br /><br />"the thing that really struck me about Jeb more than anyone I ever met, is he understood that <b>he was from the world that really counted and the rest of us weren’t</b>. It really was quite a waste of his time to engage us. This was kind of his family high school. There wasn’t anything he could do to be kicked out so he was relaxed about rules, doing the work. This was just his family’s place.”Yastreblyanskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08335868257729063363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-88243066785981638852016-01-17T12:38:32.950-05:002016-01-17T12:38:32.950-05:00"Why let the facts get in the way of a good n..."Why let the facts get in the way of a good narrative?" Really? You, Mr We're Not Having Any "9/11" Talk Around Here?<br /><br />Yes, Jeb? is the scion of old school blue blooded robber baron nazi financing American aristocracy. And the question is?<br /><br />History only repeats to those paying attention.Ten Bearshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594307610015584119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-84162725984732000142016-01-17T12:37:20.791-05:002016-01-17T12:37:20.791-05:00Believing the narrative that Bushes are above boas...Believing the narrative that Bushes are above boasting about victory would require averting the eyes from giant banners proclaiming Mission Accomplished and flightsuits with comically large codpieces, and ignoring (almost certainly fabulous) tales told of purloining Geronimo's skull.<br />Believing the narrative about generosity to a loser would mean ignoring the curled lips mockingly whispering, "Please, don't kill me."Chai T. Ch'uanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10956478299220539612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65447229539613843432016-01-17T12:23:11.221-05:002016-01-17T12:23:11.221-05:00Lee Atwater taught Bush pere how to fight dirty be...Lee Atwater taught Bush <i>pere</i> how to fight dirty better than anybody else at the time, mostly by pretending to be coarse, ignorant, and stupid.<br /><br />Imitating George Wallace, you might say.Philo Vaihingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17150326435392881297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-74112863918826566742016-01-17T12:22:26.836-05:002016-01-17T12:22:26.836-05:00The Lord and Lady of the castle, and their offspr...The Lord and Lady of the castle, and their offspring, never do any dirty work themselves.<br /><br />The leave that to their minions, sycophants, hangers-on, and wannabe's.<br /><br />So please, they can't be held responsible for what that riff-raff does.Victorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06609452382111686086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-92219686347172708932016-01-17T11:54:52.831-05:002016-01-17T11:54:52.831-05:00The mendacity is so thick with Republicans that it...The mendacity is so thick with Republicans that it comes in layers, sediment laid down year by year. With the end of any semblance of an "objective mainstream media," there is almost no hope of any significant percentage of the electorate ever seeing reality again--until some day reality actually arrives from the real "outside" and delivers a blow to powerful to be ignored. That "outside" may be the climate, or perhaps some country too powerful to be bullied, or possibly the whole economic system will really fall into a depression. At any rate, the revolution will not be televised, not in the USA. Fiddlin Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083633111240927563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-89922814293504194882016-01-17T11:35:41.870-05:002016-01-17T11:35:41.870-05:00Didn't Romney also suffer from the too nice sy...Didn't Romney also suffer from the too nice syndrome? I recall he enjoyed "sport." Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15657817538967363082noreply@blogger.com