NYTimes Food Column Uses Monkfish to Castigate Cap Gains Tax Cut

MediaResearchCenter ^ | Wednesday July 30, 2003 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

O O O O O Hey...just another fish tale!

[goldstategop]

Liberals spin fishy tales even where you don't expect to find them.

[Pharmboy]

Pluck your magic pinger, Timesink...

[Huck]

Nasty looking monsters, but they do taste good.

[Paul Atreides]

Isn't it fitting that the article would be written in fishwrap?

[tcostell]

The author may not know this but:

For a good part of it's history there was a significant percentage of the US economy which was managed collectively.

People would all work based upon their abilty, and all would contribute to the collective throughout the year. Then at the end of the year, one member (who was decided in advance ) would distribute the returns of the collective based upon a number of issues including need.

This system remained in place for years and years until one day, Republican politicians decided that the collectives needed to be broken up.

So they used their firm control of the military industrial complex and took their army to the collectives and forcibly dismantled them. What happened to the members of the collectives?... They set them free.

(A little idea I've been playing with for debating libs.)

[Maceman]

Pluck your magic pinger, Timesink...

Hiya kids! Hiya Hiya!

[Atlas Sneezed]

"All the fish that are fit to wrap."

[fight_truth_decay]

"Monkfish eat pretty much anything that comes their way, including soda cans and other trash"..You know, I might have to rethink my taste for monkfish.

[Huck]

I think I have the same eating habits as monkfish.

[Huck]

I don't get it.

[talleyman]

Caviar emptor

[Pharmboy]

Ah yes...good memories. Wasn't that Andy Devine who hosted?

[mountaineer]

Monkfish and lobster have reprehensible characters? Should they repent of their sins?

I knew lobster were called the "cockroach of the sea," but I don't see how eating whatever happens to come along is a character flaw. Sounds like survival to me.

[Seamus Mc Gillicuddy]

Do monkfish eat annoying NYT liberal food writers? Probably not, they'd get a severe case of agita and flatulence. HEHEHEHEHEHE.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

The year was 1861, the place, Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor.

[tcostell]

Slaves. Anytime people are forced ot work for the benefit of another, they are slaves. (As were those people)

But I get the point, it's too vague. It's still an idea in development.

[Huck]

Man am I stupid!

[tcostell]

Actually, I think I was too vague. I need the punch line to be a bit more pointed, but I like the idea of getting libs to go nodding in support of the idea, and getting into it, then dropping the facts on them in a way that they can't possibly support.

It's a tricky balance between setting it up and knocking it down. I've been worried about the big suprise, but I guess I should be a little more specific.

Thanks for the feedback.

[Huck]

Well, definitely put me on the Homer Simpson end of the spectrum! LOL. But I see what you mean. If you can hook em in just right, you'll really have em.