Letters to the Editor
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Book cover and title:
A split cover--on the left, a collage of Republicans. On the right, a large photo of the governator from "Conan the Barbarian."
The title:
"Truth is Stranger than Fiction."
Or simply:
"Truth and Fiction."
Or,
"Separated at Birth? Not!"
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I Offer Up A Title
The Emperor's New Penis
(I might use a different word, one that replaces "clothes" a little better, but I doubt you would want that in your book title.)
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Hankest
Little Dicks.
Perfect!
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@ samson141
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?
No, but a doctor who smokes and is overweight would have no business mocking a patient who was.
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?
Yes, that's probably more accurate.
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The Codpiece Conservatives
(How America Was Left Wanting More)
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TD Allen
But when you go so far as to post a photograph of them as prime evidence that they are in fact unmasculine (as you did of Mark Hemingway), you are seriously over the border into the same territory right-wing commentators have staked out for their own--and they're welcome to it. Point out the hypocrisy of their words, but hinge their hypocrisy on the way they look?
When I first read the column, I agreed with you. But I also initially agreed with Kerry's refusal to "stoop to their level" and swing back at the Swift Boaters. Certainly, I figured, people will be able to see right through their attack and Kerry will come out looking like the adult. We all know how well that panned out.
It's time someone other than comedians (Franken, Maher, Stewart & Colbert) start swinging back.
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book title
FauxHawks: Right-wing males and their curious machismo.
There are a lot of good subtitles suggested that would go well with this main title. I would steal those.
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Lowenbrau
Totally harsh, bordering on trolling and I am loving every minute of it.
Enjoy Mark in a press photo from his stint in the band "Cartel"
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8075/1150/1600/Cartel2.jpg
He pictured in the back-left (who am kidding, you can't miss him)
You cannot make this shit up. My sides hurt...
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C'mon, spell it out
I don't use a person's physical appearance to demean them or refute their arguments. I didn't even want to post pictures of people ever out of concern that it would seem to be doing that. But this is plainly NOT doing that. This is examining their relevant attribtues to see if they embody the virtues they accuse others of lacking.
What are the relevant attributes you see in the picture? What virtues are embodied in this guy's image? I thought you had an argument to make, but apparently you're ashamed to post it in public.
I hope you never try this unworthy stunt again.
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I should have known...
that after 91 comments someone would have already hit on "codpiece conservatives".
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Frog Prince Warriors of the Right
Toads who look in a glassy lake and see Lancelot staring back.
Mirror mirror on the right, who's the manliest in sight?
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Mark Hemingway - coming soon in a men's room near you
I'm sure he, like most pundits, has never engaged in any behavior that will come back to haunt him.
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Sex, Hats, Beer, and Cattle
Sex, Hats, Beer, and Cattle - Republican Myths and Democratic Realities
Maybe leave out the beer - it was the common touch that helped elect Bush - and may or may not be useful in this election.
O/T One wonders how sexual mirroring plays out with a woman on the scene. If I were HRC, I'd be going, not for a post modern Margaret Thatcher image, but maybe for a female Solomon image (obviously I do not win public offices, so pay no attention).
Waay off topic, but the politics of not only sex but race(ism) will be in play in the next 15 months. It will be interesting to see how Republicans deal with the stereotype of the the black (inherently sexy) tough guy and see them try to flip the image on Obama. In my opinion the John Edwards hair stuff was just a warm up for their real mud.
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A GOP
How does "A Gathering Of Pecksniffs," as a title work for you?
Pecksniff is the unctuous hypocrite of Charles Dicken's Martin Chuzzlewit.
My dictionary defines Pecksniffian as hypocritical; insincere; falsely moralistic.
Unctuous is defined as oily in speech or manner. The GOP is oily in more than one sense of the word.
And lastly, a Gathering of Pecksniffs can be referred to in short as the GOP.
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How 'bout the neocon war cry......
Let's you and him fight
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Phony Tough
plus subtitle of your choice. "Behind the Stall" maybe, if the book were to focus on the homosexual-denial/hypocrisy angle.
But so far I like the "Stuffed Package/Stuffing the Package" idea; it's catchy, you know what it means, it references an (in)famous image, and it's appropriately derisive.
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Re: Cartel
If I were Paul Giamatti's Mom, I'd sue.
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Titles (not looking at anyone else's before posting)
Stuff in parentheses is not part of any suggested title.
Frightening Neoconservatives (it is easy to do, and they are)
(Other Main Titles and Subtitles - Mix and match to suit)
The John Wayne Problem: Image vs. Reality in Politics
The Duke of Girl: Gender Spin in the Media
Real Men and Quiche: The Dizzying Spin of Gender Politics
Strong and Weak: Evidence vs. Image in Politics
Mars vs. Venus: The False News Destroying America
A Study in Self-Caricature: The Myth of Manliness
Caesar and Brutus: The Real Man Revealed
Strong Image, Weak Mind: The Media Illusionists
The Emasculators: The Weak in Power
Urban Myths and Popular Legends: The Neoconservative Warriors’ Broken Code
(Other possibilities: )
The Strong Liberal Revealed
When Macho Is Not Strong
The Strongest Lie
Media Circus Strongmen
Biography of a Lie: Neoconservative Courage
Projection of the Weak
Warriors and Tough Guys: Gender Legends
The Anatomy of Hypocrisy: Weak Chins and Amputated Courage
The Warriors You Don't Know
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More playing with packages
The Right-Wing Package: Manufacturing the Warrior Myth
The Strong Leader’s Package: The Infinite Gap between Myth and Reality
The Faux Package: Masculinity, Myth, and Reality in Right-Wing Discourse