Showing posts with label paul begala. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paul begala. Show all posts

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Quote of the Day (August 22, 2009)

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Wynton Hall:
"Now ask yourself this question: If conservatives like Gov. Sarah Palin are such vaporous fools, then how can they 'hijack' a national debate from the most powerful man on the planet…and all with a simple Facebook posting no less?

Indeed, if Sarah Palin is the 'whack job' and 'intellectual lightweight' Mr. Begala claims her to be, then what does that make Mr. Obama who, according to Ms. Dowd, just got his clock cleaned by a Facebook message written by the unserious likes of a 'nutty puppy' like Ms. Palin?

And therein lies the rub:  Democratic elitism never ceases to backfire."
- JP

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Ian Ransom Slices and Dices Paul Begala

Reading Ian Ransom's dissection* of Paul Begala for the Democrat strategist's ad hominem attack on Sarah Palin reminded us of our first visit to a Japanese steak house, where a skillful chef not only prepared the food before our eyes, but he made quite a dazzling show of all the mid-air slicing and dicing. It was precision culinary performance art done at nearly supersonic speed.

See if you don't agree, as Chef Ransom filets a side of Begala whale:
It's becoming laughable to note the number of Democratic strategists who are still frantically seeking to perpetuate the myth that Sarah Palin is crazy, stupid, intellectually deficient, etc. Begala hopped onto the Bandwagon of Snide Obfuscation via CNN a few days ago, referring to Palin as "half a whack-job."

Perhaps he, like so many other terrified liberal communists, was annoyed by that particular "half" of Palin that managed, in a mere Facebook message, to burst a gaping, game-changing hole in the national health-care debate.

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The childish and utterly ridiculous "You're not smart like me" mantra is the same once hurled at wily Ronald Reagan by sniveling, pencil-dic*ed liberal snobs who--let's face it--think that ordering a glass of pinot grigio in some drab Beltway bistro exemplifies superior intellect.
Pinot grigio? No, this is a Japanese restaurant. We're savoring the saki.

*language alert

Related: Wynton Hall catches Begala and Maureen Dowd in a trap made of their own elitist snobbery.

- JP