William F. Buckley: Gore Reveals Secret GOP Plot

Op/Ed Via Yahoo! News ^ | Sun Dec 1, 2002 | William F. Buckley

[Bob]

Sorry, but my german isn't very good

Mine neither. Although I did learn what schadenfreude(sp?) really means this November.

[Chad Fairbanks]

I actually knew that... but thanks anyway :0)

(I just think it's funny how Al Gore uses words like this in an attempt to appear smarter, but in the end he keeps coming across as a horses' ass)

[Fiddlstix]

Damn! I sure hope this doesn't "blow my cover" as a secret OP for the vast right wing conspiracy................

[Chad Fairbanks]

Then you better go here... it contains everything you need to know....

ATTN: VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY MEMBERS

[expatpat]

LOL

[guitfiddlist]

"They'll create a little echo chamber, and pretty soon they'll start baiting the mainstream media for allegedly ignoring the story they've pushed into the zeitgeist."

Well, Al was originally off to a pretty good start, what with the drooling about oil and ultra-wealthy billionaires. But when we wanders off into the pseudo-intellectual wasteland, using words like "zeitgeist", all he's bound to pick up is the frustrated 60's college prof vote, which is busy blaming the ignorant proletarian masses for not properly adhering to Marxist/Leninist theory. And there just ain't enough of these "progressives" to perch on, while one steals the final necessary votes.

To get back on track picking up mainstream 'Rat voters, he needs to keep talking about "global warming,man... n'sh*t...'nd like sustainable forms of like energy, dude. Cuz like, y'know...we only like got one world here. 'nd like all this war stuff is like really uncool too, man."

A sure winner for the fashionable idiot vote.

[Exit148]

Main Entry: zeit·geist Pronunciation: 'tsIt-"gIst, 'zIt- Function: noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: German, from Zeit + Geist spirit Date: 1884 : the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

Good Heavens!!!!! It would have been better if I didn't know the dastardly definition!!!!!!

[Enterprise]

He probably heard a college student use it in a sentence and didn't know what it meant.

[Jumpmaster]

Somehow, someway I expect "Mitelschmertz" to be injected here.

[fightu4it]

Who didn't know this one was comming? How dare Gore use that word, incorrectly or otherwise!

[ohiobushman]

algore also invented himself.

[Gumlegs]

Joined At The Heart ... and Soft In The Head!

[andyofvt]

cups, I always thought you would find Gore under a rock somewhere.

[VMI70]

"there's a bunch of them" -- are, some of them, "financed by wealthy ultraconservative billionaires." Non-wealthy billionaires are presumably too busy trying to become wealthy billionaires to give much time to politics.

Vintage Buckley...He can pick it apart, can't he. If he ever decides to teach an english class, I would sign up for it and move to the venue.

On the subject of the current popular use of German expressions by the dims. I have a theory that they are adopting words from a country that is failing because of it's liberal policies. People in the US appear to wising up and rejecting liberalism as expressed in english, so now the libs are resorting to foreign words to encode the same tired policies.
Do I need a tinfoil hat??

FReepers easily broke the code. I wonder if the sheeple will do the same.

[Randjuke]

the only word I know is Gudentight, which I believe means 'Virgin'..

How about the german term for brassiere: kippzemfumfloppin?

[cloud8]

They'll create a little echo chamber, and pretty soon they'll start baiting the mainstream media for allegedly ignoring the story they've pushed into the zeitgeist.
--Al Gore

Sure Al, sort of like the way Dan Rather ignored the story of Condit (D-CA) and the missing intern.

Zeitgeist, indeed. What a big vocabulary you have, Al. You and Tommy Daschole have certainly seen the writing on the wall--someday soon the media will no longer be yours to manipulate--and your reaction is to denounce Fox and the Washington Times and Limbaugh.

You are terrified, Al, because your lies are no longer being routinely passed on to a believing sheeple. I think we have the free flow of information in the Internet--something you never intended, was it, Al?--and the mainstream acceptance of books chronicling the media's liberal slant like Bernard Goldgerg's Bias and Ann Coulter's Slander! to thank for pushing some objectivity into the zeitgeist. The reign of the NYT and Dan Rather won't last forever, Al.

[Brasil]

Good stuff from the gentleman who first gave us Up from Liberalism and National Review back when liberals had absolute monopoly on brain washing.

[republicman]

Bye bye liberal media monopoly

Oh, the unfair conspiracy of it all!

[John Lenin]

They are making a mistake by talking about Rush and radio as more and more people will listen and hear the truth that the liberal talking heads never talk about. These guys are genius !

[JimVT]

That Dean button reminded me that in a New Hampshire Democratic presidential poll last week, Dean got TWO percent of the vote in his neighboring state....one to which he has made a number of trips in the past few months.

Gore, btw, got 19%.