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Doesn't He Remind You Of .. Finding John Kerry's archetype on television and in books -Hugh Hewitt
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/933ledjc.asp
| 04/01/04
| by Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 03/31/2004 9:27:36 PM PST by MNJohnnie
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To: MNJohnnie
We say again, he seems like a living embodiment of Melville's send-up of Emerson in "The Confidence Man," as his party tries to take us down the river in a showboat full of show biz charlatans.
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posted on
04/01/2004 11:30:36 PM PST
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
To: binger; MNJohnnie
LURCH
[Mutated]
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posted on
04/02/2004 2:18:33 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
(A Dollar Every Day -- Thirty One Dollars Every Month -- and Grateful for the Privilege)
To: Solson
Hee,Hee! Rathbone is perfect. Or why not just go straight to the prototypical Kerry figure himself...
...Mr. Karloff.
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posted on
04/02/2004 7:01:04 AM PST
by
Mr.Atos
(If Kerry's the answer... the question will never be asked.)
To: Solson
Oops!... got ahead of my thinking this morning. That's Massey doing a Karloff characterization.
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posted on
04/02/2004 7:09:43 AM PST
by
Mr.Atos
(If Kerry's the answer... the question will never be asked.)
To: MCFujiTanker
Kerry reminds me of NIEDERMEYER (Animal House). "Give it to NIEDERMEYER, he's a sneaky sh*t"...Dean WORMER. Yep, great comparison. As the "where-they-are-now" at the end of the film explains:
"Douglas Neidermeyer - Killed by his own troops in Vietnam."
I have speculated that the only thing that saved Kerry from being fragged was the fact that he was in the Navy rather than the infantry. Others have speculated that JF'nK might've ended his tour early because he was afraid that something like that would happen.
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posted on
04/02/2004 7:32:27 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: JohnHuang2
Hugh Hewitt ~ Bump!
We are winning ~ the bad guys are losing ~ trolls, terrorists, democrats and the mainstream media are sad ~ very sad!
~~ Bush/Cheney 2004 ~~
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posted on
04/02/2004 8:10:41 AM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: AnAmericanMother
"The Way We Live Now" is one of my husbands favorite Trollope novels outside the Pallisers and the church novels,
perhaps because of the BCCI scandal. We re-read the novels and I can't think of any he dislikes to the point of not speaking of the characters with fondness, or of being disinclined to meet them again, even those whose sufferings from their own monomania are distressingly poignant, as in "He Knew He Was Right."
I have never heard of "The Fixed Period" but if it comes to hand I shall certainly read it. Thank you for mentioning it.
I worry that in our enthusiasm for Trollope we may have contributed to the thread losing its focus and discouraging more interesting posts. I hope not.
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posted on
04/02/2004 2:22:14 PM PST
by
Barset
To: Barset
Since the topic of the thread is literary comparisons to John Obadiah/LouisXI/Blackadder Kerry, I think we're pretty safe.
Trevelyan in "He Knew He Was Right" is crazy as hell, but your husband is correct, in a strange way he IS sympathetic. That's the way I feel about Mr. Crawley. The scene where he - in the midst of abject poverty and actual starvation - is teaching his younger daughter Greek verbs . . . "poor but proud" to the nth degree.
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posted on
04/02/2004 2:28:07 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: js1138
That Prufrock segment is perfect. I am a real primitive about modern poetry so overlooked it when you first posted it. Kerry-Prufrock:
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
...
Politic cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous.
Kerry is Mac the Knife playing Prufrock.
Actually, I should follow my first instinct and stay away from this stuff. But yours was a winning choice. b.
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posted on
04/02/2004 2:35:54 PM PST
by
Barset
To: MNJohnnie
Eddie Haskell; Wally's friend on Leaxe it to Beaver.
Always ultra polite, correct and smarmy to Ward and June; but when the adults were absent, he transforms into a schemer who delights in playing the angles and downing the Beaver.
And bottomn line, a self obsessed, delusional loser.
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posted on
04/02/2004 2:39:10 PM PST
by
don-o
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To: tiki
My brother sent me an e-mail with SKerry's picture next to Gomer Pyle and I'd say they could definately be related. Nope. That won't stand.
Gomer is a dope, but he has a heart of gold and no guile.
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posted on
04/02/2004 2:42:00 PM PST
by
don-o
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