Letters to the Editor
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Book title
"Real Men": How fat, lazy, cowardly, stupid, corrupt, craven liars in the GOP pretend to be something they're not.
Or something like that. That's after about 5 seconds of thought. I'll brainstorm some more.
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possible book titles:
Farm Boys: Molding Players for Major League Politics
The Stuff of Myth: Wimps, Pimps, and Smirking Chimps
Paper Gods: When the Right Men Aren't Real
Playground Politics: Sissies, Bullies, and Know-it-all Nerds
Dressing Right: Finding Enough Man to Fit the Suit
Guise and Gals: The conservative engineering of gender politics
Sand Kickers: You lookin' at me, Lefty?
(some joke titles)
YMCA: Young Men's Conservative Association
It's Reigning Men: Hallelujah
Package Politics: "I'm up here! Helloooo?!"
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I Like Lahlah's suggested Title
'The Bully's Pulpit'. Excellent turn of phrase. Shows that this incarnation of GOP would make TR puke & brings in their shamless pandering to the single-issue religious nutwads (who claim to be following Jesus, but act like Jesus is a sissy faggot).
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Book Title
It Takes the Village People
How Rightwing Chickenhawks, Liberal Bashers and Closet Cases Convinced the Nation They're Really Macho, Macho Men
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This discussion reminds me...
...that I'd never seen Fred Kagan below the shoulders before I caught a few minutes of last Sunday's "Situation Room" on CNN. Blitzer's show demands (rather cruelly) that his guests stand, rather than sit with their lower bodies hidden behind a dais or desk. I was prepared to see a fat man -- God knows, Kagan's neck rolls alone could feed a family of four for a week -- but I was downright unnerved by the expansive "apron" of flesh billowing out below his belt, a body shape once associated primarily with sideshow freaks. Kagan is quite a young man, but without serious medical intervention I guarantee he'll be restricted to one of those colorful, motorized "mobility" devices within five years (perhaps not coincidentally a product frequently advertised on cable news shows.) If he were to share a panel with Hemingway, I doubt even a new 16x9 widescreen TV could contain them both; I suspect only a theatrical format like CinemaScope or Cinerama would suffice.
Kagan clearly has a lot to be angry, frightened, frustrated and resentful about, but it has little to do with liberals or Muslims.
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Oh, come on..."Hemingway" itself is a joke name!
Ease up on Glenn, folks. He can disparage Mark Hemingway's appearance with impunity because the latter's ilk have been doing it for a living...the biggest macho joke is perhaps the guy's name itself, as everyone knows that Ernest Hemingway perfectly typified the falsely heroic, swaggering, over-compensating male. And some even say he was a machupa.
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@ blogarillo
-- "If you are a serial liar and coward and decry others for being serial liars and cowards, then you are a hypocrite, and that is the point here."
No, if I am able to recognize these failings in myself, I can also recognize them in others. Is a Doctor who smokes or is overweight unqualified to tell you that you shouldn't smoke or that you need to lose weight?
-- "Where do any of these people come off looking down their noses at the "wimps" of the left when they themselves seem to possess the attributes they are mocking?"
They real questsion (and I think it is the one Glenn is asking) is: Where do these people get off calling ours wimps when (1) ours are not and (2) their's are phony cowboys?
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must must resist....oh to hell with it:
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How about this title?
Real Men Don’t Cry Sissy To Win: Why Homophobia Manipulation Damages our Politics and Nation
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title suggestion
Little Dicks.
that pretty descibes them, and their obsession with masculinity.
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Aside from the obvious points
.. about the rightwing’s lack of military service, flabby physiques, and bravery-free lifestyles, a perfect example of the media not applying the same "wimp factor" critique to the rightwing as they do to the left was when Karl Rove recently gave his farewell speech on the White House lawn.
When Rove was at the podium saying his goodbyes, I was immediately struck by the embarrassing, teary-eyed, don’t-leave-me-mommy look on George Bush’s face. You have to see the video, and observe how the press covered the event, to appreciate how our journalists seem to turn their heads rather than ever acknowledge George Bush's behavior. I can only imagine how the press would have eviscerated Bill Clinton if he had acted that way when his Deputy Chief of Staff resigned. With his chin quivering and blubbering like a 5 year old, Bush looked like a toddler abandoned at the playground. Yet, the press coverage reported it only as an “emotional” farewell. Or as Todd Gillman of the Dallas Morning News wrote, Bush had a “grim expression and glistening eyes”. Really? A “grim expression and glistening eyes”?
Of all the outrageously sad things that have occurred on Bush’s watch, Rove leaving is what brings out his most manifest public grief?
The only thing grim about Bush’s behavior is that he’s never once shown any “glistening eyes” for the thousands of men and women he sent to their graves. He’s only moved to puerile expressions of sadness when it affects his own little world (like a baby .. or a wimp).
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SomeNYguy
Man that made me laugh. Thanks.
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Title suggestions
Manliness is Next to Godliness: The Politicization of Masculinity
Tough Guy at the Helm: How the Right Manufactures the Image of Manliness
The Tough Guys vs The Mary's: How Gender Underwrites the Republican Approach to Discourse
"Real" Men to the Right, Sissies to the Left: How Masculinity Shapes the Republican Mind
any good?
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A title: "The Projectors"
SubHead: "If they're accusing someone of something illegal, immoral, or "unmanly", it's a lead-pipe cinch they're doing it themselves. And usually at least ten times as much."
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Hiding in plain sight
One begins to long for the days when rightists thought they had "ideas."
Blame it on George: his victory codpiece and manly stride have won a thousand faint hearts and fainter minds to the cause, and to the style.
At bottom, let's face it, the profession of pundit, and even more emphatically that of politician, does not exercise the canonical masculine virtues. Fussing over the words, reading & thinking -- and for the politician, incessantly socializing and obsessing over hair, make-up, and clothing -- these are a far cry from the pursuits that define the real man.
So, by the nature of the thing, yet more make-up must be applied, and so proceed ad infinitum.