Sunday, September 30, 2007
(11:58 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
9/11 Tourette's
Last week, Jon Stewart of The Daily Show diagnosed Rudy Giulliani with "9/11 Tourette's." At the time, I thought, "This is the perfect catch-phrase for liberal blogs." A Google Search reveals that the term has gotten some moderate play outside of direct links to the Daily Show clip, including a reference on the "big time" blog Talking Points Memo.Still, its status is tenuous. The only thing that can guarantee the triumph of "9/11 Tourette's" would be for Atrios to adopt it and then beat it into the ground. Though his influence on the blog debate has sharply declined since his blog's implosion in the wake of the 2004 elections, no one does a catch-phrase like Atrios, who gave us the now omnipresent "Friedman Unit" and the more recent "Very Serious People."
Accordingly, I propose that we start a letter-writing campaign.
