Posted on 10/30/2015 6:55:40 AM PDT by Isara
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HUGH HEWITT: Now Mark Steyn, on two levels, and we'll talk about the substance, but there is art in that response. There is a man who's litigated successfully nine times before the Supreme Court, who managed without taking notes to retain every personal attack, reframe them, repackage them, repurpose them into a counterattack on the panel expertly. It was actually art.
MARK STEYN: Yeah, and that's the Ted Cruz I like, Hugh. The criticism of Ted Cruz this election cycle has been that he's been too canned and too rehearsed, and he uses his talking points. And when he does that, he can come over as a bit unctuous and oleaginous. But when you just let him rip impromptu like this, as you say, what gave it force was that he remembered with absolute specificity all the stupid questions that these boneheads had wasted America's time with. And that's the Ted Cruz that is absolutely great, and he transformed that debate - because then what happened is that Marco Rubio went and did his line [about the media being the Democrats' SuperPac], and Chris Christie did his line about how even in New Jersey what you're doing would be considered rude ...and then Donald Trump in his windup said that as an example of his great negotiating skills, he'd managed to talk CNBC down to two hours so they could all get the hell out of there. And every single candidate on that panel smiled and cheered at that line. And so the ones who won, I think, picked up on the Cruz dynamic, and the ones who lost were the ones who didn't participate in that ...Jeb Bush and Kasich and Rand Paul.
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You can read the full interview with Hugh here, and hear the audio here.
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Ted Cruz shows zero tendencies toward "one world" anything--the Bush family on the other hand...
I think Rubio is the most canned and scripted of the entire bunch. Everything he says sounds like a very well-rehearsed script or a sound bite.
#4 unctuous and oleaginous
You are making those words up!
Next you will say they are perfectly cromulent words. : )
Nope, it’s a real word.
I had to go to the dictionary for “oleaginous”. As you said, that is a word I have never heard in conversation (or to my recollection, seen in print either).
Steyn must be college “edumicated” (channeling my inner Bush).
“Oops-—they forgot to mention: Ted Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship....recently.
Oh, Please, that can’t be connected to this: Cruz’s wife...a Goldman Sachs exec.... served on the North American Union task force, and supported their report called-—Building a North American Community.”
Nice try Trump troll. You have jumped the shark.
First time I ever saw that word in print, it was Ann Coulter talking about Bill Clinton. I thought the word was absolutely perfect and on the mark. Just another example of how great english is. There’s a word to describe just about anything.
“”I had to go to the dictionary for “oleaginous””
Same here - had never run into the word before. Last week I had to look up “pococurante” from a post in reference to Hillary. Who knew so many words fit the Clintons to a T???
“unctuous and oleaginous”
Now there are two words you don’t hear every day!
Had to look em up.
“”Next you will say they are perfectly cromulent words””
What in the dickens is going on? This is becoming an English class - which I don’t mind at all as I love new words. But check out the “embiggened” in the description of your “cromulent”..This is the fourth new word I’ve run across in the past week. There was one other that I forgot to write down.
“”He’s embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.””
Definition embiggen: To enlarge or grow; to make or become bigger.
Sure hope I’m not the only dunce in this class....
“”Had to look em up.””
You’re not alone. Tho’ I’ve heard “unctuous”, I’ve never had the occasion to use it in a sentence. I don’t think I could use any of these in a sentence.
Correctamundo : )
“”Correctamundo : )””
Now THAT I can comprehend.....
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