Peter Callaghan of The News Tribune notes that Dwight Pelz sometimes uses baseball analogies when talking politics. And sometimes they’re tortured baseball analogies:
So, Pelz said, having the state’s primary on Feb. 19 is akin to having a ticket to the fifth game of the series – it’s not too late and it’s not too early and it might be just right. Maybe you had to be there. And to think that Republican Party Chairman Luke Esser, not Pelz, is the former sportswriter.
Ahhh…yes, Luke “The Truth” Esser. He began his sports journalism career writing for The Daily, the student newspaper at U-Dub. One of my favorite columns was from 1986, where Luke used an interesting sort of political analogy metaphor allusion in describing a national championship football team:
A prominent associate editor of a great big Seattle paper as much as wrote my name in the loss column after the Husky football team lost to B.Y.U. on national television 31-3. According to Columnist ‘X’ and various B.Y.U. players, some unsavory comments I made about the Cougars the season before (when those polygamists won a national championship there was no way in hell they deserved) were responsible for the 28-point win.
Does this mean Luke isn’t going to be a Mitt Romney supporter?
Darryl, thank you. I always enjoy learning new words. “parrhesia” is a good one. Not that it really applies here.
By the way, Romney makes jokes about polygamy too
http://www.slate.com/id/2140539/
This Esser character is a real sour-puss.
Actually, I think Esser is a natural for Romney. They both appear cut from the same cloth, the kind of cloth that just disintegrates when it actually has to hold something of substance.
Stefan @ 1,
Thanks Stefan! I’ll include the audio version of that in my Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza post this evening.
Um, Stefan, just exactly how is “parrhesia” not being used properly here.
Your entire site is an example of parrhesia. This one too.
Parrhesia
\Par*rhe”si*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?; ? beside, beyond + ? a speaking.] (Rhet.) Boldness or freedom of speech.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
Although yours is more closely related to diarrhea of the mouth or keyboard.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19253763/
Here’s a typical right wing piece of shit and ANOTHER Publican going to jail.
And on a totally unrelated note-Steffy – I think your wife gives good head.
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May Teddy Roosevelt rest easier in his grave and may Ronald Reagan forever rot in hell.
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Lucy, while I agree with you, the properly phrased Shakespearean version of the curse would run something like this: May Ronald Reagan’s pernicious soul rot half a grain a day forevermore in Hell.
Just for the record… GWB has established himself as the Jimmy Carter of the Republican Party. By throwing in with those on the left who seek to destroy this country, he has betrayed every patriot in the country.
Trent Lott is a problem. We will “deal with him”…
MTR’s Moonbat Poll:
Do you support the proposed “Hush Rush” bill?
1) Hell yes, “talk radio is running the country. we need to deal with that problem.”
2) No, there’s that pesky first amendment thing.
3) I may disagree with you, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.
4) Since us moonbats can’t win based on an honest factual discussion, we need to shut up our opponents.
Mark the Redneck @ 13
I fully support the Make the Redneck Pay His Gambling Debt bill.
How ’bout you?
I love it. Of all the things that Chimpy has done, the one thing capable of incuring the wrath of his neanderthal base is to have been in favor of a bill that Ted Kennedy would vote for.
@6 “I think your wife gives good head” for a lawyer.
Lawyers don’t know how to give blowjobs. That’s why Bill had to use an independent contractor.
@11 Shut up and quit freeloading on this website until you pay your gambling debt!
The P-I’s Dave Horsey got his start on the U.W. Daily, too. And that’s where Esser’s resemblance to Horsey ends.
Horsey = Pulitzer Prize winner
Esser = maggot food
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