As Paddy and Eye said just yesterday, Don Ricardito de Fernández y Podhòretz can be lotsa fun.
You will appreciate that a Party neocomrade of the ‘Spaniard’ persuasion--careerismwise, not merely incidentally--has to keep in with the Squire of Simon Pajama an’ with the backwater media generally, a project which is bound to require large quantities of TB2P, "Talkin’ Bilge to Power." Don Ricardito knows how to spout an excellent class of bilge--¡Walter Russell Meade, for Pedro’s sake: definitely NOT ‘Wally Wombschool’!--and I infer with some confidence that the felllow-travellin’ señorito must be a pretty good judge of power-friendly bilge products as well.
Freelord Meade’s bilge is maybe not quite top-drawer, however, if you care to scrutinize minutely. At any rate, the whine would have been better if it had been aged longer. A Kiddiemaster who discovered the Meadean neodiscoveries thiry years ago would have shown far more merit an’ "intellectual bottom" than one who did so thirty minutes ago.
His freelordship may be a little touchy on the point, no doubt unconsciously: "[D]ream machines ... don’t sail serenely ... anymore," sneers Not-Wally, as if the fleet had been grounded just the other day, possibly on the occasion of the Crawford Crash. A little "strong reading" with the Neohaven sort of strength will turn that into "¡Don’t blame me for not seein’ it comin’!" Though of course we do not blame his freelordship in the slightest, we merely carp that to have foreseen would have been better still. [1]
Abandoning Mr. Olbermann, who crops up next, not altogether accountably, I fear, to the attention of music critics in the MacL@@han Tuba community, pajamaclad or decent, we may rush on to the Blakean idiocy that Don Ricardito erects upon the Tomb of Olbermann, namely that the Pundit’s Path to Personal Plunder, as of A. R. 1433-2012-5772 is, oddly enough, Don Ricardito’s own way: "¡Keep whight, an’ *especially* when when passin’!"
Now ‘whight’ is admittedly rather a blank
(( My mind will fold into itself, like fields, like snow ))
Hardly any bilge could be power-friendlier in Otherparty circles at the moment than that. Or at any rate, Paddy and Eye cannot think of a superior candidate. Let us know, please, Dr. Bones, if you can.
Happy days.
--JHM
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[1] That canon of judgment needs to be caveated a little. Whight-wing, or indeed, any-wing, predictions that are bound to come to pass sooner or latter score no points. "The Roman Empire fell because it existed" is a fine example of such pointlessness, and also an example that we can probably smuggle past Fairembalance, the Fox goddess, as a mere harmless antique curio.
[2] The Fœtus Cult, "of whom to be despised ..." &c., may get a little wrathy about the way Paddy and Eye finally decided to word that one. Grown-ups domiciled outside Rio Limbaugh will understand that we deploy the four-letter B-word figuratively.
Though I doubt he slums as low as PJM, yet, if he did, the good Neocomrade Prof. Doc. Ch. A. Murray might object also: ¿Hath not Social Neoscientism ‘proved’ that the trouble is not that we cannot afford babies any more, only that we do not wish to be distracted by them from our many other luxuries and dissipations?
(( DIGRESSION. Ch. A. Murray havin’ proved all that, Don Ricardito de F. y P. might want to try to appropriate it a little for the (not Black but) Tan community. ¡‘Spaniards’, at least, have not lost their natural zoölogical affection for children!
(( The product requires a little additional refinement, though, insofar as one of course wants it to apply mostly, if not exclusively, to ‘Spaniards’ who vote Republicanine. And it would be possible to misjudge one’s mountin’ an’ fall off that horse on the other side, with a restriction of the class eulogized to such Republicanine ‘Spaniards’ as can really an’ truly afford their kiddies, scrupulously eschewin’ all such cost-cuttin’ abominations as public schools an’ hospitals an’ . . . .
(( Oh, well! One of the beauties of kibitzing for America’s Otherparty is that ’tis never the end of the world if one slacks off before having thought it all through. And, just between the Muses and you and me, sir, I doubt that this plan would work much better than the one that relies on the supposed innate religionismosity of ‘Spaniards’. There ws a time, not long past, when Karl, Firstlord Rove, an’ others were countin’ on that specuvestment for a good deal more R.O.I. than has eventuated. ¡Oh, well!
(( So it looks to me as if our slumberwear _señorito_ is maybe not doin’ quight so well as he seems to think, should it be really the case that "Baby, we just can’t afford you any more." That would translate, _¿no es verdád?_ into the Otherparty havin’ to expect adhesion by the Tans only of grounds of principle. The Otherparty could not offer crude economic incentives--"Just go out an’ BUY ourselves some Tans," as it were--without raisin’ serious questions, outside the monkey house, about the alleged General Unaffordability of Things. In fact "unaffordable" is a very relative concept, the Freelords an’ Kiddiemasters certainly could slosh the bucks around so as to make possible a moderate-sized campaign of Tan buyin’.
(( The really insuperable obstacle, as I guess off-hand, is that any such campaign large enough to make a difference in election outcomes would also be deplorably visible. Visible to, among others, several godxillion Tee Putty geezers, who certainly would not relish the idea that their just expectations from Medicare an’ the Ponzi Security Administration be reduced to facilitate the bribery of ‘Spaniards’. Already their ’turf’baggers fund them them to bark with some frequency that Tee Putty is not the exact same thing as the Party of Grant & Hoover. Sloshin’ the Fedguv bucks away from them so as to gain othervolks for the Otherparty will not be *politically* viable, I expect, until a large fraction of the Moocher Generation have kicked the mortal bucket down Hades Road. Granma Barbra Fritchee may be a Republicanine already, as Don José Indocumentado is not, yet ¿Is the venerable neocomradess so extremely devoted in here Otherpartisanship that she will agree to take a trough cut here an’ now that her Party may better flourish after she has departed?
(( I kinda doubt it. To expect such a prodigy is really not very different from expecting ‘Spaniards’ to rally ’round the banners of Goldwater & Atwater & ‘Mittens’ Romney without getting anythin’ from the trough at all. Neither scheme would even begin to actually work, so it seems plain that the G.O.P. Geniuses ought to rely (in vain) rather upon el altruismo de los extraños than upon the fidelity of geezers. That way, it will cost their freelordships a lot less to get the same (nil) results, which ought to be an important consideration even for those who think "Baby, I just can’t afford you any more" is mostly just so much pious viennasausage.
(( But Fehrnstrom knows best about Otherparty strategy. ))
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