(1:49 PM) | Adam Kotsko:

I'm a Bush-Basher

At 1:00 AM yesterday, SullyWatch posted a true tour-de-force. It begins as a meditation on Andrew Sullivan's admission that he is guilty, in part, of Clinton-hatred, and then turns into a thorough analysis of the current political landscape, complete with references to Marcuse, Lacan, and Cartman. Near the end, they bring out this quote:

Conservatives privately begin to practice saying to themselves “Speaker Pelosi” and vainly trying to suppress what inevitably follows — the mental image of reading news stories that begin with accounts of her meeting the president, who chuckled over the two of them wearing matching pantsuits that day ...

The message of the post is that "bashing" works and that conservatives are now terrified that the liberals will figure that out.

I am reminded of the old anti-drug commercial in which the dad confronts his son about drug use and asks, "Where did you learn this stuff?" The kid responds: "I learned it from watching you, okay? I learned it from watching you."

The camera cuts to dad's face, and he is wearing an expression that says, "What evils have I wrought?"

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