“By putting a policy on display and waiting for the public to recognize its obvious superiority—instead of, you know, selling it”
This is the first recognition of how President Obama operates I’ve seen in the online media.
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Perfectly written.
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What took TPM so long? The callow piece from Lowry has been up for a week.
Lowry is simply doing as directed, trying as hard as he can to follow the Karl Rove eMails to try and create narratives and story lines that demean and depress the President’s poll numbers in advance of the crucial 2104 Midterms.
Jason, not bad. You exposed Lowry for the smarmy little piece of … work that he has always been.
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Does every freaking reporter think they are Emile Zola and is it de rigeur that every story they write is treated as if the most important story in all of history?
Are they all ‘entertainment’ personalities, who must strain to evoke a rich style, a sophisticated collection of Bon Mots, their super-star witticisms on full display to adoring masses as they deconstruct their subject with rapier like slices and stabs into the heart of the matter?
Please, please, please, reporters–get over your narcissistic selves and give the rest of us a freaking break.
Yeah. I probably agree with most of it, I had to stop about two paragraphs in, right around ‘toe fungus’. Let’s try to keep TPM cafe up to TPM standards of civility.
Remember when Lowry became Cain’s chief flack and was on some show trying to explain the “9-9-9” plan. Whenever his interviewer tried to restate Lowry’s point in his own words, RL would, "Yes, but you’re really talking about the second 9. Or the first or third 9. Hysterically funny. Couldn’t help but retreat to the Beatles song. I’m sure they thought 999 was simple and catchy, the kind of thing people could hang onto, but no one was ever able to tell the three 9s apart. Of course, if you turn 999 upside down–and someone even nuttier would have and probably did somewhere–it becomes 666 and the shotguns and talismen come out.
Rich Lowry is a symptom of the GOP disease, the desperate need to appear “cute” because he is terrified someone might suspect he never grew out of the highschool of his mind. Nor, in his mind, should he “have to” grow up.
The GOP should be treated exactly as the child it is.
I loved every bit of snark in this article…cause its all hilariously true. Nice writing.
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I see TPM is letting the interns practice their writing skills again. Hopefully the writer’s next attempt won’t be a deconstruction of the movie Fletch, a la Reihan Salam.
I wonder if Lowry supported Palin for VP. And if so, why? Because of her gravitas?
Rich Lowry doesn’t know whether to shit, go blind, or wind his watch.
And that’s the nicest thing I can say about him.
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If you ask me, Richey is already blind, more plugged up than Portnoy’s father and can’t find the stem on his calculator watch.
Oh, and he’s stinky.
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From the Rich at the National Review:
But rarely has the presidency felt so small, at the same time discontents at home and chaos abroad loom so large.
Chris Cillizza wrote a post for the Washington Post the other day titled, “It’s virtually impossible to be a successful modern president.” This echoes analysis from the late 1970s that America had become ungovernable. It hadn’t. It just had puny presidents not up to the challenges of the day.
These guys like to use a lot of phallic imagery in their descriptions of Obama (speaking of Callow). They keep trying to imply Obama is not “manly” enough.
It makes me want to vote for a woman for president, one that doesn’t do a lot of winkin’.
Your lede is a doozy…rewrite!!!
A brown shirt would fit Lowry very well.
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