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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Headline writer doesn’t understand the expression “hoist on your own petard”.
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..."
its “Hoist WITH his own petard” - don’t you ever watch Lisa Simpson?
My first thought as well.
They either haven't ever read Henry V or they are trying to imitate Obamabonics.
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.
You noted it correctly, it is word play.
"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.
And when the opposing forces laughed themselves silly over being threatened by ‘fart bombs’, the french hand-bombers quickly became ‘grenadiers’
Maybe that’s what inspired Monty Python’s famous line, “I fart in your general direction.”
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