Posted on 06/19/2010 5:55:43 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
Someone—please!!—buy the man another stock phrase . . .
Teasing his upcoming interview with Joe Sestak on last evening's Hardball, Chris Matthews admitted that Democrats are worried that Dem PA senatorial candidate Joe Sestak isn't "ready for prime time."
When Sestak later appeared, he demonstrated just why Dems are so worried. The leaden, formulaic Sestak used the trite "at the end of the day" cliché not once, not thrice, but no fewer than . . . nine times in the course of his interview!
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Let me be clear - anyone using the expression “at the end of the day” should be beaten with sticks.
One has to look at when he made a lot of that rank. He worked at the NSC with Sandy Berger. It was Berger's people that backed him for his congressional race.
Sestak is a notorious tool to his suboordinates. It is what got him fired from his last Navy command. I wonder if that transcends to people that don't work for him? It might be enlightening to set him off with media around.
McAuliffe was the one you could count on using that phrase ad nauseum.
A guy in our office used “at the and of the day” and “it is what it is” ALL the time.
The one that I dislike is “in terms of”.
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