A Toe-Tapping Good Time

That makes the final point about humor. As Twain wrote in “The Mysterious Stranger,” only humor has the capacity “to destroy a public humbug at a single blast.”

Which explains the white-hot hatred of the Left for Rush Limbaugh. If they did not hold the MSM's bosses in an unbreakable headlock, every one of their humbugs would have been swept from the public stage years ago by Rush's jibes. ;)

You are dead on in the explanation of the hatred of Rush.
To your second point, it makes more sense to think of journalists holding liberals in their pockets than the other way around. A seemingly minor point, perhaps, but the world makes more sense if you consider that journalism is just the mass production of criticism of the doers, and "liberals" (who of course are not truly liberal at all) get called that by journalists because journalists want to promote them with a favorable label. And journalists want to promote them because they are doing the self-same thing that journalists are doing - criticizing and second guessing the doers, to try to "count" more than "the man who is actually in the arena."
A socialist government is simply a government run by critics who can second guess but cannot make decisions in the absence of full knowledge of the results. It is all scapegoating, all the time.

Well done, I say to you again!

Well played, indeed.

(Your wife's quip about "sending shirts out to be stuffed" also brought John F(wench) Kerry to mind...!)

Cheers!

Thanks. I agree with you about John Kerry. I met and debated that turkey in the Yale Political Union in 1963. He liked to wear tweed jackets with leather patches, pretending he was almost an Associate Professor, and letting everyone know that he spoke French. LOL.

Congressman Billybob

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This is square on point to yesterday's news that Larry Craig lost his legal claim, but violated his word and it clinging to his Senate seat. The man should resign, and then donate his ego to Harvard Medical School.

Well the problem with this advice is, Harvard already has an overstock in their inventory of over-sized egos.
Given the size of his ego, where would you house the damn thing, other then the U.S. Senate ?

Just trying to be practical here.
Would'nt happen to have some extra property in the 11th district would you?

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