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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: IDOlog
Best sword fight in cinema history. If only I could see it on the big screen again...
To: BlessedByLiberty
Seeing Kerry on that snowboard and decked out in loud neon was just plain sad. It was no less ridiculous than imagining my father, who's the same age, riding a skateboard and wearing a nose ring.
To: AnAmericanMother
Wow, you found more than I did. I like the one with the dim lamp...it could be a Dim Dem lamp.
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posted on
04/01/2004 2:18:51 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
To: IDOlog
More French than that.
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posted on
04/01/2004 2:21:27 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
To: A.A. Cunningham
Dem Demo Derby:
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posted on
04/01/2004 2:23:44 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra.)
To: AnAmericanMother
Who you you put Kerry next to in portrait?
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posted on
04/01/2004 2:28:06 PM PST
by
bvw
To: bvw
"you you" = "would you"
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posted on
04/01/2004 2:29:07 PM PST
by
bvw
To: MNJohnnie
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posted on
04/01/2004 2:30:09 PM PST
by
DBarkley
To: Barset
I love that scene with Eleanor and Mr. Slope at the garden party. I hope the voters turn Kerry out with the same vehemence that Mrs. Proudie used with Mr. Slope.
I never could figure out why Eleanor would have married John Bold in the first place. (I don't think Mr. Trollope had fully thought out his characters when he wrote The Warden, and as the chronicles grew they probably surprised him a little bit.) At least she redeemed herself by marrying Dean Arabin.
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:01:30 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: MNJohnnie
"Doesn't He Remind You Of .. Finding John Kerry's archetype on television and in books "
Ya mean other than a cadaver ?
Why, Al Gore, of course. The desperate, say anything, do any ol foolish thing to be elected Al Gore. Every day or so Gore trotted out a new version. He tried everything from saying he and Tipper were the models for Love Story then he was the Alpha Male earth tone Gore, the preacherman Gore, the lockbox, Dingle-Norwood robotic Gore, the hanging chad Gore. Gag. Kerry is exactly the same kind of boring, supercilious, pontificating jackass.
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:06:08 PM PST
by
Darlin'
("I will not forget this wound to my country." President George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001)
To: AnAmericanMother
![](http://static.zoovy.com/img/givemetoys/-/fk_snidley_whiplash)
Heinz-Kerry Whiplash
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:06:26 PM PST
by
Neenah
("It's Always Something!")
To: sciencediet
I'm busting a gut at that one... definitely a keeper.
ROTFLOL!
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:10:21 PM PST
by
Mr.Atos
To: Neenah
Curses! Foiled again!
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:22:03 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: Mr.Atos
BASIL RATHBONE!
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:23:49 PM PST
by
Solson
(Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.)
To: Solson
![](http://www.basilrathbone.net/gallery/candids/brc58.jpg)
John Kerry...on the left.
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:26:11 PM PST
by
Solson
(Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.)
To: RonDog; *Hugh Hewitt
BTW, this movie in which Basil Rathbone plays King Louis XI is entitled "If I Were King." I can think of NOTHING more appropriate.
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:28:20 PM PST
by
Solson
(Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.)
To: IDOlog
As a MacGregor descendant, let me caution you regarding taking either Scott's novel or the movie too seriously.
Essentially, Rob Roy was head of the local protection racket, in which his entire family were key players. They earned their living extorting money from cattle owners and drovers, and spent their leisure hours ambushing their hereditary enemies, when they weren't pillaging and raping. (Rob Roy's son Robin Og was eventually hanged for kidnapping and raping an heiress.) He was "out" in the '15 for what he could get out of it. His oldest son James Mor was also a bit of a rogue. Read Stevenson's David Balfour for a very clever portrait of James, and also a thumbnail sketch of the Byzantine nature of Scottish politics after the '45. As Balfour says of politics in the book, "I had seen it from behind, where it was all bones and blackness."
- I'm descended from Rob Roy's cousin Thomas MacGregor, who headed for America in the early 1700s one jump ahead of the law. Changed his name when he got here too.
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:30:44 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: Solson
Oooh! The Spider King! Very Kerry-esque.
![](http://perso.club-internet.fr/herve_ga/t/histo/louis11.JPG)
![](http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fcs195/photos/Spider%20King_thb.jpg)
For more on Louis the Spider, read Scott's Quentin Durward
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:39:02 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: AnAmericanMother
Louis XI's Administration Characteristics....
A born diplomat, Louis skillfully checked his foreign and domestic enemies and set up an efficient central administration. He used commissions (and the one States-General he convoked) to give his acts the appearance of popular approval. He diminished the prestige of the courts. Despite his revocation (1461) of his father's pragmatic sanction of Bourges, he intervened freely in church affairs. He imposed heavy taxes, using much of the revenue to purchase support. He also encouraged industry and expanded domestic and foreign trade. Louis preferred men of humble origin, and among his advisers were Olivier Le Daim , Louis Tristan L'Hermite, and Cardinal Balue , whom he rewarded liberally, though he was niggardly in his own expenses. Fearing assassination, he spent his last years in virtual self-imprisonment near Tours . He was succeeded by his son, Charles VIII .
Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/section/Louis11Fr_CharacteristicsofLouis'sReign.asp
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:43:59 PM PST
by
Solson
(Always remember when you are on top of the world , that the earth rotates every 24 hrs.)
To: sciencediet
Hah! Quite right. Allow me to amend and revise. I think that's AIG on the left.....
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posted on
04/01/2004 3:48:03 PM PST
by
IDOlog
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