Posted on 02/10/2015 7:02:26 AM PST by Rummyfan
Snark is a popular word used for a particular sort of off-putting sarcasm. Snarkiness can manifest itself as adolescent cheap shots, snide condescension, or simple ad hominem patronizing — a sort of “I know you are, but what am I?” schoolyard name-calling. Its incessant use is typically connected with a peevishness born out of juvenile insecurity, and sometimes fed by an embarrassing envy. All politicians are snarky at times; but few obsessively so, given the wages of monotony and insecurity that the snark earns.
President Obama is well known both for ad hominem dismissals of his supposed enemies — everyone from Fox News to the Tea Party to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity — and for his evocations of nefarious straw men who, he claims, if left unchecked, would uninsure the poor, pollute the environment, hurt the illegal immigrant, and wage perpetual war abroad. But Obama’s snarky putdowns and condescending afterthoughts are a particularly disturbing subset of these rhetorical devices, used by him in the grand world of diplomacy as well as in often petty domestic contexts.
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The President is delusional.
Among leftists, “snark” is often taken to be “intellect”.
He is a small person indeed.
He’s snarky, and he’s Islamo-centric.
Obama bin al-snarki.
“Obama bin al-snarki.”
LOL!
ONLY democrats do this.
Republican Presidents, as far as I can recall, have never insulted ANY portion of the American public, no matter how much they disagree with them. You just DON’T insult your citizenry period.
Yet barry does this EVERY day of his regime. Anyone who disagrees with him are NOT Americans that he is president of; rather THEY are subjects and are to be dealt with via law, regulation, tax that they oppose and will hurt them. Tough, too bad...
This is not the land of the free as long as this jerk is ALLOWED to remain in office. Thanks Congress...
Yes it is. Like a mental illness now rampant in public, in the workplace, academic environments, etc.
Incredible how people think they can learn basic truths about life by watching Jon Stewart, the other guy associated with Stewart, as well as Letterman and other television sources of snarkiness.
The Zero is small, alright - a putz.
Better yet - The Zero is puerile.
So, 'snark' is a new term for receiving anal sex?
< /snark>
This column reminds me of a line from Alexander Pope: "what oft was thought but never so well expressed."
VDH ping ...
Obama IS what is known to Muslims as “taqiyya.” According to the Middle East Forum “The Quran allows Muslims to have a declared agenda, and a secret agenda (Jihad, slaughter, and mayhem) during time of weakness, this is called Taqiyya.” To put it in simpler words, it is the “art” of deception, or more correctly, of deceiving non-Muslim infidels.
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