Posted on 03/06/2015 2:07:20 AM PST by Rummyfan
Our leftie friends at Mother Jones put it this way:
Benjamin Netanyahu just mansplained Iran to Obama
Er, okay. Glad you said that because there'd be no end to it if some rightie guy sneered that Obama was our first female president.
For what it's worth, I prefer mansplaining to 'Bamsplaining, where he peddles a lot of gaseous pap interrupted by cheap digs at straw men and all delivered in that set-your-watch-by-it left-right prompter-swivel. (To stick with the Mother Jones shtick, real men don't use prompters.)
But, if this was "mansplaining", it was a big man doing the 'splaining. The shout-out to Harry Reid, the "my long-time friend John Kerry" schmoozeroo, all this was brilliant - not because everyone doesn't understand how fake it is, but because the transparent fakery underlines how easy it is to be big and generous and magnaninmous and get the snippy parochial stuff out of the way to concentrate on what really matters.
Obama could have done this. He could have said yesterday, "Hey, my good friend Bibi and I don't see eye to eye on everything, but I'd have to be an awfully thin-skinned insecure narcissistic little dweeb to make that a capital offense, wouldn't I? So, since he's in town anyway, I've asked him to swing by the White House for an hour to shoot the breeze - and maybe we can have that dinner we missed out on the last time, right, Prime Minister? Hur-hur-hur."
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“mansplaining” and Obama are contradictory terms.
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Thanks for the heads up Slings and Arrows.
Bump. Thanks, JLS.
Thank you for the post and ping, Rummyfan and JLS.
Netanyahu’s speech truly was man vs. petty, petulant, narcissistic boy.
O’bambi’s only deed was to pour a trillion-gallon bucket of icky black corruption over the federal “government.”
It appears everybody in this Administration is complicit in deliberate crime, including Foggy Bottom. This is no surprise. A fish rots from the head down.
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