President Bush and Tony Snow are experts at damning with faint praise—Absolutely devastating in that they can make the target feel inexplicably small and stupid, while appearing to be magnanimous. It takes smart men to be so wickedly nice and that makes it all the more effective against those who arrogantly perceive themselves to be geniuses Churchillian figures.
I find it extremely funny.
Hahahaha...wonder what became of the first.
a lot of the credit goes to Snow IMHO. Arty Fleischer couldn't have pulled this off any more than Joe Lockhart. Snow is simply very fast verbally, and a bad person to be across a debate floor from.
#5 Exactly! "Wickedly nice" is perfect! LOL