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Re: Kerryisms
- To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: Re: Kerryisms
- From: "Frank, Ellen" <efrank@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:50:39 -0400
- Thread-index: AcQ/lk8kfy5XsmJVRwqH2MydAnOJqgAAEnlh
- Thread-topic: [PEN-L] Kerryisms
Or, as John Stewart put it, "why does Kerry sound more
dickish when he's telling the truth than Bush sounds when
he's lying?"
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Pollak
Subject: [PEN-L] Kerryisms
It's not that
he makes gaffes, but rather lards that he lards so many of his sentences
with "caveats and pointless embellishments." And the result is a language
of "pomposity and evasion" -- even when he's saying the right thing.
Michael
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k hanly Sat 22 May 2004, 02:09 GMT
- Abu Ghraib / Robert Mapplethorpe,
Yoshie Furuhashi Sat 22 May 2004, 01:34 GMT
- Orientalist Torture, Cont'd,
YOSHIE FURUHASHI Sat 22 May 2004, 01:27 GMT
- Kerryisms,
Michael Pollak Sat 22 May 2004, 00:46 GMT
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Kerryisms,
Frank, Ellen Sat 22 May 2004, 00:52 GMT
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- boston lecture on China,
Michael Perelman Fri 21 May 2004, 21:00 GMT
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