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Originally posted by fastpat
What I really like about you is that you're a collossal boor, and I can use you as an illustration of the condition of boorishness. It almost exceeds your bombast, but not quite.
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Aw, come on; he's darn funny and he can spin together words and make syntax dance almost as well as his hero, William F. I haven't heard from him (or Buckley, for that matter) in some time, but he appears to have sharpened his game in my absence.
At the same time it is pitiful and a bit tiresome that he presents himself as an intellectual whilst offering up an anecdote from the lunatic fringe as substantive fuel for the rightist outrage. Offering up the anecdote was OK - like telling a racist or off-color joke, but using jokes or stories to form or defend policy is best left to George and company.
But his fart remark was
darn funny - at least once he explained it to us. Oh if only we had the wit to catch JP's brilliance without him having to stoop to explaining each and every nuance to us...