No lie: Kerry's just a wannabe (Tomorrow's Steyn Today)

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | April 4, 2004 | Mark Steyn

[proud American in Canada]

"Ask the multilateral gang what's hip, and hop to it."

Once again, Steyn is right on target.

Thanks for posting this!

[arasina]

Most of what is considered cool, though, is affected, disinterested, and nihilistic.

So true, but I would add insolent and belligerant to today's definition of cool.

[Roscoe Karns]

here's Gov. Bush four years ago being given a ''verbal Rorschach'' test on American pop culture by Glamour magazine: What comes to mind, David France wanted to know, when you think of Madonna?

''I'm not into pop music,'' replied Bush.

Good for Bush. Who gives a crap what anyone thinks of Madonna or Carrot Top? Did anyone ever ask LBJ what he thought of Gillian's Island? Again, good for Bush.

[savedbygrace]

Maureen Dowd, the New York Times' elderly schoolgirl

That's gonna leave a mark.

[litany_of_lies]

Re: Xmas present searching--NO.

I do have a fair bit of experience making small edits to web addresses to find stuff that is supposedly archived by pubs that try to lock up their content ridiculously quickly, though. It's as close as I'll ever get to being a hacker.

[RonDog]

To the old taunt ''Be there or be square,'' Thatcher replies, ''Go ahead, punk/hip-hopper/techno-industrial-garage-house-wraparound-porch beatnik, make my day.
I'll be there and be square.''

That's much cooler than a 60-year old Botoxicated Brahmin from the U.S. Senate recycling a lot of 20-year-old cliches about rap being the authentic voice of the streets...

I would venture to say that Margaret Thatcher probably does not wear yellow "flower power" zipper pulls, either.

John Kerry as "Alpha Weenie"

[SquirrelKing]

A Daylight-Savings steyn! Cool.

[wingster]

Dude, "Anyway, as I said, I wouldn't call Sen. Kerry a liar. But I did get the vague feeling in the following exchange that, if it had gone on a minute or two longer, the candidate's nose would have cracked my TV screen, extended across the coffee table and pinned me to the wall."

ROFLMAO indeed!!!

[auboy]

Mark Steyn is a tremendous talent. He can cut people down to size quicker than a Vegamatic.

[don-o]

"because he'd never heard of Leonardo DiCaprio.."

I had never heard of him either until about six months ago -

I never heard of him until about six minutes ago.

Honest

[aculeus]

Maureen Dowd, the New York Times' elderly schoolgirl ...

Spot on.

[GOPJ]

LOL:

Now that got my Pepsi coughed up....

[Imal]

It's square to be hip.

[GOPJ]

What's an ms ping?

[stands2reason]

It's a lazy-assed Freeper's way of writing Mark Steyn ping.

[irv]

. All over the planet, men in late middle age are pretending to like stuff just 'cause it's what the likes of Maureen Dowd tell them people want to hear

I hate to disagree with the peerless Mr Steyn, but the reason men in late middle age pretend to like pop music and such things is to impress women a great deal younger and better looking than Maureen Dowd.