Great moments in self-awareness

Evan Thomas in Newsweek:

She [Mandy Grunwald] may be reflecting her boss’s [Hillary] view that the press is fundamentally not serious about reporting the substance of policy.

Evan Thomas in the same Newsweek article, two paragraphs later:

Digging through the personal record, searching for human flaws, is what reporters do when they cover presidential campaigns[.]

Bingo.

Fixed the parenthetical reference.

 

Comments: 14

 
 
 

My favorite part is his comment about “her boss.” Is her boss Billy boy or one of the Illuminati

 
 

You have the parenthetical reference to Hillary in the wrong place. Hillary isn’t the she in the sentence; she’s the boss.

 
 

Yeah, the “she” is Mandy Grunwald.

 
 

Right, it’s Grunwald reflecting the view of “her boss” (Hillary).

 
 

Ahem! However, the point is still well taken. That point being that Evan Thomas is indulging in douchebaggery.

 
 

Well, of course. He works for Newsweek.

 
 

Shorter Evan Thomas: My sister, my daughter, my sister, my daughter…she’s my sister and my daughter!

 
 

Man, the grammar police must have a long way to go to make their February quota. That’s some ticky tack foul calling. You guys should be the grammar police in the NBA…

mikey

 
 

Hey, if you do become NBA grammar police, can you make the stupid announcers stop using “defense” as a verb? Oh, and it should be “times out” not “time outs.”

Thanks.

 
 

Me gets bonus points for the Chinatown reference.

Forgive me for my earlier boneheaded and thoughtless comment. I’ve been reading old “the Question” comics lately.

 
Smiling Mortician
 

I’m sorry, but I did dibs the Chinatown references ages and ages ago. Me owes me some royalties or something.

 
 

Hey, if you do become NBA grammar police, can you make the stupid announcers stop using “defense” as a verb? Oh, and it should be “times out” not “time outs.”

Thanks.

No, because it’s “timeout” (or “time-out”). It’s a single word, so the plural would be “timeouts.”

nyah.

 
 

I lost all faith in the Grammar Police when they refused to act on my “distancing oneself” complaint. I am currently negotiating with Blackwater to see if the private sector can provide a better service.

 
 

I took a journalism class recently and a big-wig at WaPo guest lectured. It was awful. Her point was that the press needs to tell more personal stories about the candidates, bring up some anecdote from their high school days that reveal their character. Seriously.

I made the point that the press should consider reporting policy properly before it gets to psychoanalysis, and that they’ve done such a bad job in the past of revealing character (Bush is the cool cowboy you want to drink with! Gore is a liar but Bush is a straight-shooter!) that I wouldn’t trust their moronic high-school day tales farther than I can throw them. Fell on deaf ears of course.

Voters want to “connect” with candidates and that apparently means telling them about the time little Johnny brought his pet rabbit to show and tell.

 
 

(comments are closed)