tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post4943026181242832492..comments2024-03-28T21:32:41.763-05:00Comments on driftglass: Strategic Forgettery? You're Soaking In It!driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-81749608051098757142015-08-31T00:37:53.408-05:002015-08-31T00:37:53.408-05:00Oh dear lord. Up until this very moment, I didn&#...Oh dear lord. Up until this very moment, I didn't realize that Mark Halperin was not Mark Helprin. It does explain a lot though. <br /><br />I remember hearing the start of the Dole speech on the radio in 1996 ("...And the first thing you learn on the prairie is the relative size of a man compared to the lay of the land. And under the immense sky where I was born and raised, a man is very small") and thinking it startingly eloquent for Bob Dole. I was driving across the high plains - not the far more settled prairies of Bob Dole, with more small towns and people and farms, but still, it struck a chord. (For those unaware of the distinction between the plains and prairies, Highway 281 divides them roughly, with the midwestern prairies of small towns and small farms a few miles apart giving way to cattle and wheat and places that are fifty or a hundred miles from anywhere). <br /><br />If you haven't grown up out there, it's hard to understand the rest of the country seems at time, not simply physically distant, but a different country with the plains removed from the consciouness of the country (think of a movie or tv show set on the plains, and you probably of something set in a time 125 or 150 years ago). At least for a few moments, I could feel a connection with Dole despite disagreeing with much of politics. And then Dole started throwing red meat to his base and blaming the teacher's unions for all the problems in education and lost me.<br /><br />When I read that Helprin had written parts of the speech before quitting due to Dole's revisions, I thought ah, that's where the eloquence came from, and I could never quite understand how the two Marks could be one person. Of course, both are quite conservative, and perhaps Helprin wrote the teacher bashing parts as well and not just the opening. He is a good writer though, if not quite of the same stature as Delany or a dozen other writers I can name without working hard, but worth reading (and of course, he didn't write "Game Change")dahlgrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09254658010959884710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-47199237019323757412015-08-30T06:30:04.175-05:002015-08-30T06:30:04.175-05:00The sad truth is "terrorists" would be o...The sad truth is "terrorists" would be one of the nicer things RWs have called us.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12710348040257922919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-30801680945590289132015-08-29T08:54:12.044-05:002015-08-29T08:54:12.044-05:00sav, "lol wut". That is all.sav, "lol wut". That is all. Chan Kobunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14002224390133771585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56945061644284742422015-08-29T07:30:27.387-05:002015-08-29T07:30:27.387-05:00Good for Hilary. It seems like only she and PBO ar...Good for Hilary. It seems like only she and PBO are the ones calling out the Thugs for what they are (except for too few hardy bloggers like our host and the Lovely MS. Blue here).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141640791663745884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75290538719820590042015-08-29T00:57:00.137-05:002015-08-29T00:57:00.137-05:00Um...the Republicans do accuse Democrats of being ...Um...the Republicans do accuse Democrats of being terrorists all the time, or at least of being in league with the Muslim ones.Buckybonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745411927985191450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-4617299600899484092015-08-28T20:23:59.182-05:002015-08-28T20:23:59.182-05:00You are mistaking internet posters with leaders wh...You are mistaking internet posters with leaders who sound like internet posters...Hillary said it...now she owns itAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11837653809115221637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-61379181655584269152015-08-28T19:07:32.893-05:002015-08-28T19:07:32.893-05:00@Lex Alexander: Yes, that's the one. I don'...@Lex Alexander: Yes, that's the one. I don't know if I would like it as much if I read it today, but I must give it credit for prescience about the two newspapers. At the time I found the idea appalling, why would one newspaper that trafficked in garbage be as popular as one that actually practiced journalism? I don't think that Fox was around back then, or if it was, I hadn't heard of it...<br /><br /> -Doug in Oakland dinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-49591873020271922522015-08-28T17:44:16.985-05:002015-08-28T17:44:16.985-05:00And we all know what happens to naughty lying liar...And we all know what happens to naughty lying liars who lie for a living, don't we?<br />Alliteration?<br /><br /> Naughty Lying Liars and the Lies they LIE about Living a Life of LIES!oc democrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12512390168078458602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-40955297046803951632015-08-28T16:56:00.928-05:002015-08-28T16:56:00.928-05:00That other Mark Halperin is a terrific fiction wri...That other Mark Halperin is a terrific fiction writer and also managed to write an acceptance speech for Bob Dole that sounded like spun gold even coming out of his corny as Kansas mouth. A conservative yes, but not a tool like this Halperin who has some serious daddy issues. Dan Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07203591308219835360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-90362394874885243872015-08-28T15:29:08.612-05:002015-08-28T15:29:08.612-05:00^^^ The book was "The Winter's Tale,"...^^^ The book was "The Winter's Tale," right?Lex Alexanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364989805025038306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-20004814178342282932015-08-28T13:46:26.795-05:002015-08-28T13:46:26.795-05:00I once read a book that I liked by an author calle... I once read a book that I liked by an author called Mark Helprin, who I later found out was a conservative of some stripe or other. Not having the book any more, and unsure of the spelling of his name, I was mortified when Mark Halperin started showing up on the internet a few years ago. You have no idea how relieved I was to discover the two weren't the same person...<br /><br /> -Doug in Oaklanddinthebeasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12941071534250216503noreply@blogger.com