Safire dazzles again with his brilliance...

[tomfodw]

...or maybe he's just full of shit, as usual. I report, you decide.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/opinion/20safire.html

Reading Kerry's Mind
By WILLIAM SAFIRE

I am John Kerry, falling further behind in the polls with only six weeks to go.

:::snip:::

2. Ignore my peripheral messages that show no traction. Unemployment keeps drifting down and the stock market is going up, so the economy doesn't help me. Deficits don't scare people, taxing the rich shows no traction, and Bush has muddied up the health and education issues. Scaring the old folks about privatization of Social Security only drives younger voters to the G.O.P.

This is so full of lies it's beyond possibility that he actually believes it.

:::snip:::

7. Duck all the gotcha! news conferences. I'll get away with Imus and Oprah and Larry King and let the hard-news media holler about softballs.

This the worst lie of all - considering how Bush is the Prince of Duckness, never ever facing anything remotely resembling a genuine question, having held only 12 news conferences in his entire presidency.

:::snip:::

Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company



By now, I suppose there's no point in even bothering. Anyone who still takes Safire seriously is either a member of his family or Harry MacDougald. But I just can't stand it - he keeps getting worse and worse, and he's in the New York Times - my New York Times, which I've been every day for 39 years. I know he has a right to his opinion, but don't we have the right to at least minimal competence? Or maybe not, considering who the president is.

[swag]

1. What do you expect from Spiro Agnew's former speechwriter,

intelligence?

[tomfodw]

2. How 'bout at least...

...minimal honesty?

Naah.

[Plaid Adder]

3. He used to do a nice column about grammar & usage.

It's a shame he has to go and ruin himself with all this assholity.

C ya,

The Plaid Adder

[rock]

4. Well, in truth, he was not that good of a 'pop' gramarian

But he did have some interesting chats with his readers.

[redstateblues]

5. Pathetic Hack In The Twilight of a Mediocre Career

I used to try to give him the benefit of the doubt knowing he's a GOP apologist. I would factor that in as I read but I skip his column now-it's useless.

[tomfodw]

6. I agree, but...

...I can't help myself. I need to know just what kind of bullshit he's trying to peddle.

The problem is, he always sounds so smugly sure of himself. I wish I could shake him by his lapels and scream some decency and sense into him. I know that's ridiculous, but I can't help it. I simply cannot believe that himself actually believes what he's saying. I mean - how could he?

[FarLeftRage]

7. Say, isn't safire

a congenital LIAR???

[Eric J in MN]

8. Geroge W. Bush has been on "Oprah" (in 2000) and Kerry

has never been on "Oprah."

Safire is full-of-it.