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Eugene Robinson's Untimely Metaphor: Boris Became PM By 'Knifing' Rival 'In the Back'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/09/2022 4:14:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Mark this down as the year's most grotesquely insensitive metaphor.

On Friday's Morning Joe—hours after the news broke that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had been assassinated with shots to the back—Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, in a scathing statement about Boris Johnson, said:

"He sort of failed up, upward through his career until he became Prime Minister after knifing Theresa May in the back."

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1 posted on 07/09/2022 4:14:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: miss marmelstein; patro; abb; SE Mom; HarleyLady27; connyankee; Behind Liberal Lines; KC_Lion; ...

Liberals like Eugene Robinson hate conservatives so much that they’re not even aware, or don’t care, about making a grotesquely inappropriate remarks like this just hours after Shinzo Abe was assassinated with a shot to the back.

Ping to Liberal Media Criticism list.


2 posted on 07/09/2022 4:16:02 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Robinson sounds like he’s got a mouth full of marbles.


3 posted on 07/09/2022 4:22:50 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

A waste is a terrible thing to mind.


4 posted on 07/09/2022 4:24:15 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: ComputerGuy

“A waste is a terrible thing to mind.”

Uhhgene is the unspoken downside of tolerance


5 posted on 07/09/2022 4:31:04 AM PDT by Huaynero
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

“He sort of failed up, upward through his career until he became Prime Minister after knifing Theresa May in the back.”

Change a few words and names around and you’ve got obama, don’t you?


6 posted on 07/09/2022 5:17:36 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Eugene Robinson - the Poster Child of Affirmative Action - talk about failing up. In a just world, Robinson would be editing the classified ads section of a local newspaper.


7 posted on 07/09/2022 6:14:24 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He never got tested by fire, that’s what happens with affirmative action some of the time, they just skate their career like barbara walters. Truman skated into the vice presidency the same way...one needs to earn his way to become good at their job.


8 posted on 07/09/2022 7:16:51 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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To: HighSierra5

I prepared the transcript for the article [governs=Finkelstein], and was struck by how often he would repeat a word or short phrase. Rarely got a sentence out without repeating himself.


9 posted on 07/09/2022 7:17:27 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I'll bet he was all over Sarah Palin's target ad though.


10 posted on 07/09/2022 8:09:53 AM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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