Posted on 03/03/2009 12:16:37 AM PST by Scanian
I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the last eight years.
Thus, I have chosen as my lead, the proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic Party theme of 2003-08: "Bush lied, people died." There are, of course, two differences between the two slogans.
Most importantly, I chose to separate the two clauses with a semicolon rather than a coma because the rule of grammar is that a semicolon rather than a coma) should be used between closely related independent clauses not conjoined with a coordinating conjunction. In the age of Barack Obama, there is little more important than maintaining the integrity of our language - against the onslaught of Orwellian language abuse that is already a babbling brook, and will soon be a cataract of verbal deception.
The other difference is that George W. Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He was merely mistaken. Whereas President Obama told a whopper last week when he claimed he was not for bigger government.
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Tony Blankley has a beautiful way with words.
awesome headline
bump for morning
Wonderful article.
Another phony pretending he never heard this before. Michael Savage was the first person to say this. This clown is just pretending he is clever. Don’t fall for it.
I've been hearing a variation on this phrase since about five seconds after Obama announced he was running. Savage must always claim he invented the wheel so he can be bitchy about something.
Most importantly, I chose to separate the two clauses with a semicolon rather than a coma because the rule of grammar is that a semicolon rather than a coma) should be used between closely related independent clauses not conjoined with a coordinating conjunction.
Does Tony Blankley really think that the word 'comma' is spelled 'coma'? And what's with that hanging right-parenthesis after the second occurrence of 'coma'? Offering a lesson on punctuation in which a key word is misspelled and a punctuation error is made is kind of embarrassing...
Or maybe deliberate?
I thought of that, but decided against it. He’s making a point of grammar, and there’s no hint of irony in his use of the word ‘coma’ for ‘comma’. As for the hanging right-parenthesis, no doubt it somehow got overlooked by Tony and the proofreader...
I don't care if someone uses it. Just give credit where credit is due instead of trying to pretend you are the first to say this.
Where is the proof Savage said these first?
Is he going to start another legal defense fund and ask for contributions? ;)
February 8, 2009, 6:32 am ‘Porkulus’ Lexicon Lexicon | “Porkulus” is opponents’ word for the economic stimulus bill now before Congress, a conflation of “pork” and “stimulus.” A Nexis database search finds nearly 70 citations in major news sources since Jan. 28 and none before (with this legislative meaning). Google News shows a similar spike, especially this weekend. The word’s currency is attributed to Rush Limbaugh: “On his show Wednesday [Jan. 28], Limbaugh called it the ‘porkulus’ package, for all the pork-barrel projects he saw in it.” [San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 29; Google]
Rush has been callinng it a porkulus bill from the day it was introduced. Savage is constantly ripping off Rush, Levin and others.
Rush has been callinng it a porkulus bill from the day it was introduced. Savage is constantly ripping off Rush, Levin and others.
“Obama lied; the economy died”
OK...but was the economy not dying already several months before he took office?
BTW, ever since the "Bush lied, people died" thing, people've been spinning off it. Savage can't take credit for it, as much as he'd like that, unless he was the first who did a riff on it back when. I don't think he did.
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