Listening to political podcasts and thinking that unless youâve got something really interesting to tell me about what your bowels have been up to, I donât ever want to hear the word âmovementâ again.
Obama was the first Democratic nominee of my lifetime who conservatives talked about as if he was dumb. (The whole âaffirmative action, somebody else wrote his books for himâ thing.) With Dukakis, Clinton, Gore, Kerry, etc., the pattern was to act as if they were too smart to be fully human.
I was born into a world where people talked about the Kennedys as if they were a race of movie stars whoâd died trying to build a better world. I donât know what lessons Iâd attach to the name if, like Olivia Nuzzi, I had been born in the 1990s. Maybe âknow when to say when, and hire a pilot.â
I just assumed that anyone who can find it in themselves to care about RFK Jr. is blinded to his repulsiveness by the magical power of his family name, but I also assumed the magic had thinned out down through the generations. Olivia Nuzzi was born in 1993. Another brilliant theory bites the dust.
We need people like Rich Lowry in out public life for the word âtendentiousâ to have any future at all.
Rich Lowry says that when Kellyanne Conway said âalternative factsâ, she didnât mean she should be able to make up her own âfactsâ, even though when she said that, she was talking about the Bowling Green Massace.His half-swallowed use of That Word is clearly the lede. But Rich is a complex tapestry.
"I began to mispronounce the word 'migrants' and caught myself halfway through," the National Review editor-in-chief explains of himself The post Rich Lowry Says He Didnât Say the Racial Slur You Hear...
