Posted on 03/14/2005 8:43:31 PM PST by ritt
It is a long time since Horsefeathers turned to The New Yorker for high quality comic writing. Truth be told, we rarely read it any more. The weekly anti-Bush rants of Jimmy Carter's speech writer, Hendrik Hertzberg, finally caused our eyes to glaze over once too often. However, in the wake of the Presidential election, the New Yorker's strenuous efforts to raise the spirits of their liberal elite readership is producing some hilarious comic writing. The New Yorker shares the view that the Democrats lost because they didn't seem tough enough. So the task is to make them look (rather than be) tough! No need to consider their message of nuanced, metrosexual, multilateral UN worship; no, it was nothing but a failure to effectively convey their inner toughness. They were so much smarter, so much deeper in their understanding than the dumb cowboy. What message could possibly have misled the public into their resounding verdict on the Dems- the guys who leave the barroom when the fight begins? It's got to be time for a makeover. Jeffrey Goldberg sets out to remedy the problem by offering up a lengthy portrait of a real tough Democrat--none other than the camera hogging, blow dried plagiarist Joe Biden! Biden's preening, coiffed presence suggests he really could kill---for camera time. Watch out Chuck Schumer, Joe Biden may trample you in a race for face time on Meet The Press.
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I get the NYorker because I really enjoy some of their nonpolitical stuff. But damn these guys are really nuts.
I used to enjoy the New Yoker for the fiction, the humor and even the occasional article. But I simply cant support that mag any more.
Dr. Horsefeather's usual brilliant writing skewers the sad loss of the New Yorker's former style. One senses the New Yorker magazine is not a real New Yorker if it can't see through the proven plagiarist and phony Biden.
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