Posted on 12/26/2008 10:25:16 AM PST by Tom the Redhunter
DC Chapter Ping
Excellent commentary, Tom. Thank you for the post.
Isn’t it mind boggling. I am falling off my chair laughing at the stupidity of it all.
eew
Oh Lord. Is this what we've got to look forward to for the next 4 years?
What else are they going to write about?
His stellar accomplishments?
His voting record? His decisive stands on any number of issues he took, frequently contradicting himself over and over?
His new administration and the changes we will see in personnel that will “stun” everyone?
The fact that he’s screwed his lefty base nine ways to Sunday by bringing Hillary’s Shadow Government to DC so She will actually be defacto President?
Naw. Let’s just print a photo of Mr. Chicken-chest and flog the celebutard news much like The Star.
What next WAPO? Batboy and Michelle hookup?
This IS creepy stuff - I don’t want to see or hear anything about the pecs on the POTUS (and certainly not about the mere President-elect), thank you, Mediascum.
The Obamessiah cult is in full bloom......
Maybe one line about the fact that a President exercises vigorously (or not) is plenty, thank you. The hard-body worship is just ridiculous — celebrity culture has completely infected the “news” media beyond all shame.
It’s clear even from a distance that those aren’t ‘pectorals’-it’s a condition called HTC induced gynocomastea (manboobs).
“There is a term for this, and it’s “soft porn.””
There’s another term: Emetic
Oh Lord. Is this what we've got to look forward to for the next 4 years?"
As for myself, I'm praying for more cloudy days.
Is WaCompost issuing special kneepads with the OWhammy insignia on them to its reporters to cover OBamBam?
Or do they each cheerfully provide their own?
The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.
There is a term for this, and it’s “soft porn.”
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For the love of God. Are we now reducing ourselves to a Neo-Victorian priggishess?
If that is “soft porn” then let’s light the fires and start burning the books beginning with:
Anaïs Nin — Delta of Venus
D. H. Lawrence — Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Henry Miller — Tropic of Cancer
Mark Twain — 1601
Pauline Réage — Story of O
Vladimir Nabokov — Lolita
and the ever favorite book of eroticism
Solomon—Song of Songs.
I am trying to laugh but more and more I feel like puking!
Methinks you entirely missed the point.
I understand, but I am still laughing
Chiseled pecs...like Michael Vick?
Anyone who cannot distinguish between the sensuality of the Song of Songs and the explicit, egregious commodification of human sexuality of Nin and Miller is unfit to make any moral or aesthetic judgments.
If this be neo-Victorianism, make the most of it.
No. I get it. But to equate “messiah cult-of-personality worship” with “soft-porn” is specious at best and mendacious at worst.
Sad that you immediately go for the “priggish” charge. And accuse me of being a “book burner.” I had rather expected better.
I have read Song of Songs thank you. It’s a love story all within marriage, as it should be. Not quite the same as the man-crush cult worship of Obama.
I just don’t see this as an appropriate way for a major newspaper to describe the president elect. It’s weird and cultish.
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