“ESPN masculinity”???
When I think of ESPN, the first image that comes to mind is athletes with egos the size of Texas. For me, the comparison fits Mr. I-Me-My-MineObama.
Dennis Prager has been noticing that the whole thrust of leftist culture is to eliminate all distinctions between men and women.
So a woman can be just as ESPN Masculine as Barry and ESPN Femine is exactly equal to ESPM Masculine.
ESPN? How fitting. He went from pitcher to catcher.
It appears to have worked...uh...nevermind.
Another “inoculation” event by the liberal press.
They are warming us up to the disclosure that Obama is bi-sexual. Maybe Reggie Love did not like being fired...
Manly? No, I just don't see it. The only people who would use that word for Obama swish when they walk.
OK... first it was how Obama wore a pair of pants... now this.
Brooks has given all a reason to wonder... “is he or isn’t he?”
obama displays no masculinity whatsoever. No leadership or statesman-like qualities either. He’s a total fraud.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78rcowperthwaite.phtml
The Adventures of Miles Cowperthwaite
Saturday Night Live Skit (John Belushi)
soo....
ESPN is a manly network with manly hosts broadcasting in a manly way. Reaching out to manly cities like key west, san franceeesco, and Grenich Village NY.
The Bradley Effect.
Wait, what?
Like I need this guy, Brooks, defining what is manly....BWHAHAHAHA
Hey David Brooks, is Mike Tyson also an example of ‘ESPN Masculinity’? http://bit.ly/LNV0q9, http://bit.ly/KrS7fE, #JustAsking #tcot
A FINE BROMANCE
Tune: “A Fine Romance”
http://wtv-zone.com/REMEMBERTHEN/midis21/a-fine-romance.mid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGmpuZ5rHig
As sung by David Brooks to Barack Obama
A fine bromance, like no other
A fine bromance, my Brooks brother
Barack and Brooks—it’s mutual admiration
Your rock-star looks are causin’ a strange sensation
A fine bromance, though you’re frazzled
A fine bromance, I’m bedazzled
I like to stare at the crease in your well-pressed pants
I’ve widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance
A fine bromance, we’re pie-chartin’
You make bromance that’s bi-partisan
You’re cooler than the clams that are down in the seaweed
You cast a glance my way and I get all wee-weed
A fine bromance, you’re my Marx guy
When we slow-dance, you make sparks fly
You make me have to cancel my “No we cant’s”
You’ve got me in a trance
This is a fine bromance
A fine bromance, with no disses
A fine bromance, Barack, this is
The “right” may be the box that a guy like I’m in
But I’m the kind that writes for the New York Times in
A fine bromance, my dear comrade
A fine bromance, like you and Rahm had
I feel a tingle running now up my pants
I’ve widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance
What he's also trying to say is that Obama keeps his cool and doesn't get panicky or emotional. Brooks is attracted to the president because he doesn't think Obama sweats like ordinary mortals. What Brooks doesn't say is that the press has been so much in Obama's corner that there haven't been many real challenges that might cause him to lose his cool. He's under their protection.
This week, though, when Obama slips in the polls he attacks the very papers and magazines that have been supporting him and covering him up until now. That's a sign that maybe he's not as cool, collected, and controlled as Brooks makes out, that faced with real conflicts and setbacks, Obama won't be as cool as Brooks thinks he is..
Brooks raises an interesting question: preboomer and postboomer traits in Obama. But Brooks skews his result by taking preboomers as stoic, silent types and postboomers as gushy emotionalists. Obama's coldness or coolness or reticence may have more to do with boomer narcissism than with old-fashioned masculinity. Or maybe that kind of emotional distance is so much a part of the culture that it's hard to locate on a time line as a product of one era or another.