Posted on 12/01/2018 7:10:02 AM PST by Twotone
First they came for "Baby, It's Cold Outside", and I did nothing because I was too busy watching her put some records on while I pour.
Then they came for "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". Following my appearance with Tucker on Thursday, mein host spoke to Dave Rubin about the usual tosspots taking umbrage over "Rudolph" because it's "seriously problematic". As Dave said, it's easier to destroy than to create. But the quivering pearl-clutching cries of "Seriously problematic!" suggest even destruction requires a creativity of which our moribund age is increasingly incapable.
My general line on "Rudolph" comes from a Life magazine editorial in 1950: "They discriminated against Rudolph for not being just like every other reindeer in the herd. They drew the color line against his nose." But the editors also correctly noted why the little fellow was so effective in rising above the deeply ingrained erubescophobia. "The run-of-the-sled reindeer began shouting his praises, not because they really loved Rudolph, but because Rudolph was suddenly a Big Shot."
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Gosh I love Steyn LOL
great audio file here.
https://www.steynonline.com/9058/going-down-in-historeeee
Steyn loves Christmas.
And this on President George H W Bush:
Overnight, news came that George H W Bush had died. There will be more to say in the days ahead. He was president at the moment when the free world formally won the Cold War - although, as I noted in America Alone, at the time it didn't seem much of a victory ideologically speaking, and is less and less of one as the years go by. In its place came new provocations: The first Gulf War ended inconclusively, and in that sense made inevitable the second, launched by his son and ushering in an age of perpetually inconclusive wars. On the home front, the first Bush was felt not to "connect" with voters and was replaced after one term by a new kind of president who connected in ways that have afflicted our politics ever since.
Bugs Bunny, Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Mickey Mouse, Woody, Goofy, etc., all met their demise at the hands of the radical, progressive, liberal P.C. Police. And we all said, “Okay”. And they just keep pushing us to the edge of the cliff, while we keep whispering, “Okay”.
It’s over. If we wouldn’t stick up for Bugs, where is the line where we will?
I’m in stitches!
“...the editors also correctly noted why the little fellow was so effective in rising above the deeply ingrained erubescophobia.”
“He’s learned a quintessentially American lesson: don’t get deep and crisp, get even.”
Deep and crisp and even...LOL. How Bohemian.
“erubescophobia” — Another big LOL!
Erubescophobia - fear of the color red
Erubescent - becoming red or reddish; blushing
TOSSPOTS?? Never heard that one before. Must be a Britishism!
LOL... Got to love Steyn. I’ve never read a piece by him without having to highlight and search a word, phrase or name, and learned a little something as a bonus in addition to the valuable entertainment he always delivers.
Don’t forget the even earlier termination with prejudice of the Frito Bandito.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer--Waring's Pennsylvanians (1954)
You are so right! The list is very long. With any luck, I’ll be long gone before my name shows up!
Around Shakespeare's time, a toss-pot was a bar fly. If you spent a lot of time in the ale house, you might earn the nickname "Sir Toss-Pot." Steyn's piece is the first time I've seen the term used in modern-day polemics.
Not in my house!
I made sure to have VHS and DVD of the old looney tunes while my girls were little. The only other cartoons they really like are the Animaniacs and now that they are older select Japanese Anime....but only if it’s in original Japanese.
>> Around Shakespeare’s time, a toss-pot was a bar fly. If you spent a lot of time in the ale house, you might earn the nickname “Sir Toss-Pot.” Steyn’s piece is the first time I’ve seen the term used in modern-day polemics.<<
I (googled?) the word because I had never seen it before. When I read it I thought it was probably a Britishism for chamber pot.
By the way, when I need to verify a word’s meaning I click on a + symbol at the top of my screen. That takes me to a screen full of dictionary and other sites I can click on for the definition. Question: When I do this am I using Google or not?
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