The most perfectly programmed animatronic robot ever. He hit his marks and said his lines every time. Hit “sincere” and he looks you right in the eye and tells you shit is better than ice cream and you throw out your ice cream. Hit “stern and determined” and you would swear he could march nose first through a brick wall. Hit “avuncular” and he’s your favorite uncle, telling you that, no, he didn’t finger your little sister, he would never do anything like that, and you know he did, and you hate his guts for it, and he’s still your favorite uncle.
I presume you are describing Reagan? The current president could not persuade me he liked ice cream if he looked up from shoving his face into a bowl of it with a big, goofy, cream-smeared smile on his face. I rarely believed Reagan, but I cannot even use the verisimilitude I invoke to follow a Jackie Chan movie to pretend to believe Bush.
Yeah it does. The author of a fictive work must invoke verisimilitude to encourage the audience to put aside their rational reaction to that which is not real. Similarly, the audience must invoke that part of the brain that responds to such langauge so that they may partake of the fiction.
On a related note, this from Talking Points Memo, regarding the politicization of the DoJ and the effort by the Bushiviks to get more “real Americans” on board. You know, the “right sort” of people…
tomndeb, thank you for writing out that summary of the scandal, your shorthand version answered a lot of questions for me. I should’ve thanked you before instead of just teasing.
Nope, even your implication was debunked a long time ago, the problem now was that the current firings took place in the second term of the administration.
