Posted on 07/21/2005 11:14:08 PM PDT by kingu
This is just hilarious. WaPo's "style" editorial is oozing with helpless hatred, like they are watching the world change around them and are utterly unable to do anything about it. They're mellllting...
Clothes??? Thats all they can come up with??? They got nothing then!!
This is totally immature and immaterial. Before you know it, somebody is going to be yelling at Judge Roberts, "I know you are but what am I?"
It was written for the style section.
There was nothing wrong with his family being with him, and I thought they were all dressed very proper. In fact, it was quite refreshing to see those cute little kids. The losers at the WP are just mad because Bush got to appoint someone for the SCOTUS position. Jealousy is a terrible thing! They're just going to have to deal with it.
It's a personal decision whether he should bring his family or not. Some people don't want their families in the public eye. Once they enter the public eye, even if they are uner 18, they lose some rights to privacy under the law. My feeling is that it makes no difference, either way.
Hmm.. Well, you may be right for all I know. The only reason I could even venture a guess is because many, many years ago I had to put in some community service hours at a Good Samaritan thrift store and I had to write "taupe" in the color section of the labels.. =)
I have it on good authority that taupes are actually vicious turtle like creatures with oblong shells, duck-like feet and growths that resemble facious hair. Until recent changes in weather patterns, they inhabited remote sections of the Amazon. However, they have slowly begun migrating north and now we must all watch out for...
THE INVASION OF THE KILLER TAUPES!
" But the Roberts family went too far. ... There was only the feeling that, in the desire to be appropriate and respectful of history,
the children had been costumed in it."
Trashing the children's clothes has got to be a new low, even for the Washington Post.
I'd wager this was written by that venomous Robin Givhan.
Apparently she would have preferred mini dashikis and do rags on the tykes.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Tableau vivants are set stage pieces, with every person standing stock still and usually at least partially NAKED. The were common place in the late 19th and early part of the 20th centuries. Many times, they were recreations of famous paintings, but not always and were used in the ZIGFIELD FOLLIES and THE FOLLIES BERGERE.
This has to be one of the meanest pieces I've ever seen. The idea that in dressing respectfully -- I'd say beautifully -- for the White House they were doing a marketing campaign...well, it makes my blood boil. Some libs need to get a life.
Lifeless?
I'd say overcome with the history of the moment, while simultaneously preoccupied with the difficult task of keeping a little boy corralled who's been up too late on a special day.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
So the author was trying to reduce Roberts and his family to mere stage props. Well, it's not everyday that you get to see a stage prop being elevated to the highest court in the land.
It was in the Style Section. It's supposed to be catty and mean-spirited. That's why women read the style section. It's the female equiv of professional wrestling. And society marriage announcements are the equiv of the sports pages.
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