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Originally posted by daepp
Seems to me she speaks truth to Democrat power!
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I wish that were true, it needs doing, but alas, she does not. What Ann Coulter does is speak to the neocon booboise', giving the pap they so heartily love to swallow.
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From "The Archangel Woodrow." Mencken's skill at manipulating language is matched by an awareness of how others, with perhaps more insidious intentions, do the same. In his evaluation of the oratory of President Wilson ("a pedagogue gone mashugga"), Mencken mingles scorn with a certain awe:
"[Wilson] knew how to arrest and enchant the boobery with words that were simply words, and nothing else. The vulgar like and respect that sort of balderdash. . . . Woodrow knew how to conjure up such words. He know how to make them glow, and weep. He wasted no time upon the heads of his dupes, but aimed directly at their ears, diaphragms and hearts. . . . He heard words giving threee cheers; he saw them race across a blackboard like Marxians pursued by the Polizei; he felt them rush up and kiss him"
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