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Hung by Your Hoisted Petard
New Red Majority ^ | 8/5/08 | trumptman

Posted on 08/05/2008 6:02:40 AM PDT by trumptman

The media keep calling Obama a rising star, a rock star, and other phrases to try to build him up. They keep trying to give him momentum and build support for him due to their own biases. When Republicans are smart enough to note the process, the media goes nuts trying to cover their own rear.

They don't even realize that one of the reasons McCain has gone negative is because it will finally yield some coverage that they have been refusing to give him. They won't cover him in front of a podium speaking about his energy plan. However they will cover whether an attack on their beloved messiah is "fair" or not by their own reasoning. The McCain ad was given loads of free air play so that the talking heads could discuss how mean or unfair McCain was afterwards.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: mediabias; obama; potus2008; strategy

1 posted on 08/05/2008 6:02:40 AM PDT by trumptman
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To: trumptman

Headline writer doesn’t understand the expression “hoist on your own petard”.


2 posted on 08/05/2008 6:09:23 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Et si omnes ego non)
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To: trumptman
Hint:

A petard is a small hand bomb like a grenade.
To be 'hoisted by it" is to be blown up.
"hang time" will depend on how many "bits" you are "blown to..."

3 posted on 08/05/2008 6:09:42 AM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

its “Hoist WITH his own petard” - don’t you ever watch Lisa Simpson?


4 posted on 08/05/2008 6:12:09 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: ClearCase_guy

My first thought as well.


5 posted on 08/05/2008 6:14:48 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Headline writer doesn’t understand the expression “hoist on your own petard”

They either haven't ever read Henry V or they are trying to imitate Obamabonics.

6 posted on 08/05/2008 6:23:04 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF ("Gun Control" is not about the guns. "Illegal Immigration" is not about the immigration)
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To: trumptman

McCain has finally realized that the media isn’t going to kiss up to him like they did in 2000 and 2004 when they thought he was going to defect to Kerry. His sound bites on TV will only be played if he jabs at Obama in the process.


7 posted on 08/05/2008 6:25:26 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

You noted it correctly, it is word play.


8 posted on 08/05/2008 6:30:34 AM PDT by trumptman
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To: xcamel
The term was most famously used by Shakespeare in "Hamlet," when the title character threatened to blow up Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with a bomb. But as Cecil of The Straight Stuff points out:

"The word 'petard,' we note with a barely suppressed giggle, comes from the Middle French peter, which is derived in turn from the Latin peditum--the sense of which (heh, heh) is 'to break wind.' Which must mean either that the French had a serious gas problem in those days, or that the petard was of something less than nuclear impact."

Playing with etymology a bit more, potassium nitrate was commonly called "saltpeter" when it was sold as a spice on grocery store shelves for use in food preservation. There was a folk belief that it caused erectile dysfunction when consumed, but the name probably referred to its use in making explosive black powder.

9 posted on 08/05/2008 8:21:34 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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And when the opposing forces laughed themselves silly over being threatened by ‘fart bombs’, the french hand-bombers quickly became ‘grenadiers’


10 posted on 08/05/2008 8:25:48 AM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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To: trumptman
"Blowed up real good."

11 posted on 08/05/2008 8:29:54 AM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: xcamel

Maybe that’s what inspired Monty Python’s famous line, “I fart in your general direction.”


12 posted on 08/05/2008 8:54:38 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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