Aleya For The Win
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomBy way of Atrios:
Who is your favorite author?” Aleya Deatsch, 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments.When your facile pandering is judo'd into a diss on your literacy by a second-grader, maybe you ought to rethink whether you actually are up to the task of leading the free world.
Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss.
In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought the candidate would be reading at a higher level.
“My favorite author is C. S. Lewis,” she said.
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-12-23 04:15 am (UTC)Then again, if an adult reporter asked him that and got the same response, I have to admit I'd have no choice but to grant points for taste...
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:38 pm (UTC)Photoshopped
I'm not a Bush fan, but he has enough real faults that we don't need to make 'em up.
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:33 pm (UTC)Huckacide - the suicide the GOP would be by nominating Huckabee (A: because I'll bet you 500 bucks that it'd lead to Ron Paul running on the third party ticket and giving the fiscal conservatives something to do, and B: because there's enough dirt on the guy to fill a grave)
Huckenfreude - taking delight in the fretting of fiscal conservatives over Huckabee's rising numbers.
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:42 pm (UTC)As was suggested above, by the way, I think that in this case Huckabee was pandering, and got smacked down; but if a Presidential candidate, in all seriousness, said that he had read plenty of higher-level stuff but he'd always have a soft spot for Seuss for his simple, clean storytelling and imagery (or something along those lines), I'd count that for him.
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Date: 2007-12-21 02:47 pm (UTC)ABCFamily has been showing a lot of the Suess animated features recently. In my own defense, I was incredibly young the last time I saw most of these, but I hadn't realized just how heavy-handed Seuss could be. Of course, he was writing for children, and he knew something of propaganda.
Back on topic: Huckabee underestimates the intelligence of a seven-year-old; imagine what he thinks of the rest of us.
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Date: 2007-12-21 05:08 pm (UTC)I'm told conservatives are particularly fond of Thidwick the Big Hearted Moose as a scathing indictment of the SocialistWelfareState.
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Date: 2007-12-21 07:05 pm (UTC)Huh. "Offer charity to someone, and you'll get taken advantage of." Yeah, that sounds like a conservative's moral fable.
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Date: 2007-12-21 03:32 pm (UTC):-))
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Date: 2007-12-21 07:07 pm (UTC)Though I'll admit that the Jim Carrey film does have a few clever bits, they weren't worth the price of popcorn, let alone admission.
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Date: 2007-12-21 07:27 pm (UTC)The live-action Grinch is, top to bottom, an abomination in the sight of a God that I don't even believe in but I still want Him to smite Ron Howard, Jim Carrey, the scriptwriters (who once upon a time wrote the screenplay for Who Framed Roger Rabbit? but then gave us The Wild Wild West and this Whovian shitpile), and especially the merchandisers, all of whom worked so hard to take this simple, beautiful story about Christmas being more than shopping and merch and making it exactly about shopping and merch. At the time, I was so sick at heart that I couldn't breathe, couldn't think straight. I ended up writing a scathing review, which purged the poison from my heart... but on some level, I will never, ever forgive those guys for this ugly, nasty, foul movie.
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Date: 2007-12-21 05:05 pm (UTC)I'll give Huckles a break here. At least he didn't say Matthew Mark Luke & John.
And, unlike, certain other Republicans, he didn't claim to have been influenced by a kiddie book that wasn't even published until he was of college age.
Besides, Dr. Seuss is cool: "I'll blow you into pork and wee beans! I'll butter-side-up you to small smithereens!" Many a dark night, the thought of George W saying that after breathing helium has gotten me to laugh rather than cry or scream or go utterly mad.
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Date: 2007-12-21 05:41 pm (UTC)The Bible?
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Date: 2007-12-21 06:05 pm (UTC)that child gives me hope for the future.
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