Doesn't He Remind You Of .. Finding John Kerry's archetype on television and in books -Hugh Hewitt

http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/933ledjc.asp | 04/01/04 | by Hugh Hewitt

[RonDog]

Separated at birth?

Thurston Howell from Gilligan's Island


John Kerry as "Alpha Weenie"

[RonDog]

Lurch from "The Addams Family"

[RonDog]

Maybe Hillary Clinton?

[WhiteyAppleseed]

Leonard Zelig.

[WhiteyAppleseed]

And Dick Clarke is Dr. Zachary Smith, Hillary Clinton is the Great Pumpkin. An alternative to Leonard Zelig for Kerry would be Uncle Martin. While watching Combat I wondered why the Germans always lost. Go figure.

[cajungirl]

Is anyone old enough to remember the movie Tom Jones? There was a character, Bliffel, who was my perfect John Kerry, supercilious, condescending, a tattle tale, the kind of man who acts like Kerry. The archetypal Kerry story for me is the one where he as a teen joined pickup hockey games and got the puck and sent it into the woods to frustrate the other guys. I keep thinking Kerry should have had the snot beat out of him by some Louisiana boys back when he was 9 years old and again at age 14,,it might have helped him a bit. Boys will level boys if adults let them.

[AmericanMade1776]

I KNEW IT.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1105633/posts

[AmericanMade1776]

ichabod is on the left in above post

[Mudboy Slim]

That's it...Kerry's definitely Lurch...MUD

[AnAmericanMother]

I hear the mermaids singing, each to each . . .

. . . I do not think that they will sing for me.

[AnAmericanMother]

I do like Rockwell, but I've always felt that his portrait of Crane is too sympathetic - not OILY enough.

Here's an older version that to me captures more of the slimy aspect of Crane:

The Disney cartoon is, of course, right out.

[wisconsinconservative]

I still vote for Herman Munster; with Teresa as Lily, George Soros as Grandpa, and Michael Moore as Eddie. Still haven't figured out who should be cast as Marilyn

The intern, Alex Polier?

[Mr.Atos]

Q... arrogant, patronizing, eliteist, impetuous, and always wrong about the nature of Man.

[Mr.Atos]

..."tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served as shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together." Ichabod's voice--"the authoritative voice of the master, in the tone of menace or of command; or peradventure, by the appalling sound of the birch, as he urged some tardy loiterer along the flowery path of knowledge." Ichabod was quick to deal out punishment to his school charges, always accompanied by a lecture.

Kerry indeed. Just brilliant, Hugh!

[RonDog]

I KNEW IT....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1105633/posts

Great minds think alike. :o)

From:

Title this picture of John Kerry
usnews ^ | March 25,2004

Posted on 03/26/2004 9:46:46 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

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John Kerry looks like Ichabod Crane to me here.

1 posted on 03/26/2004 9:46:46 AM PST by AmericanMade1776

[AmericanMade1776]

That does resemble John Kerry More in his ichabod Crane appearance, love the artwork of the picture you posted.

[Barset]

John Kerry is Obediah Slope in Anthony Trollope's "Barchester Towers" Unctuous, false, wordy...a pursuer of rich women, a self-promoting liar who is scorned and dismissed by real men and women for whom worldly power is too serious a consideration to let the Slopes of the world near it. b

[AmericanMade1776]

It was pointed out to me in that Thread, that Ichabod, was the nickname for John Kerry , at Yale.

[AnAmericanMother]

John Kerry is Obediah Slope in Anthony Trollope's "Barchester Towers"

Good catch!

Mr Slope is tall, and not ill made. His feet and hands are large, as has ever been the case, with all his family, but he has a broad chest and wide shoulders to carry off these excrescences, and on the whole his figure is good. His countenance, however, is not specially prepossessing. His hair is lank, and of a dull pale reddish hue. It is always formed into three straight lumpy masses, each brushed with admirable precision, and cemented with much grease; two of them adhere closely to the sides of his face, and the other lies at right angles above them. He wears no whiskers, and is always punctiliously shaven. His face is nearly of the same colour as his hair, though perhaps a little redder: it is not unlike beef, - beef, however, one would say, of a bad quality. His forehead is capacious and high, but square and heavy, and unpleasantly shining. His mouth is large, though his lips are thin and bloodless; and his big, prominent, pale brown eyes inspire anything but confidence. His nose, however, is his redeeming feature: it is pronounced straight and well-formed; though I myself should have liked it better if it did not possess a somewhat spongy, porous appearance, as though it had been cleverly formed out of a red coloured cork.

I never could endure to shake hands with Mr Slope. A cold, clammy perspiration always exudes from him, the small drops are ever to be seen standing on his brow, and his friendly grasp is unpleasant.

Alan Rickman played the man with too much character, but . . .

[AnAmericanMother]

Doesn't "Ichabod" mean "Glory Has Departed"?