High Life

11 October 2008

No win situation

And if you think things are bad in Kabul and the Big Bagel, they’re looking worse for poor old John McCain, a good and heroic man who deserves better. The election is over, Obama has won big time, and, although I think he will be a disaster as president, he is a good man who will be overwhelmed by race hustlers and special interests, just as that fool Bush was conned by the neocons to go overseas and play Alexander the Great. Poor McCain. The vultures of the media went after him when it counted most, just as Wall Street collapsed. No wonder only spivs go into politics nowadays. Who needs daily to read and hear lowlifes put him through the ringer, people who suggest his years in a prison camp make him unfit for office. Low blows are what the press and media are all about, and I sympathise with the war hero whose cancer one Frank Rich of the Times keeps making fun of. I have my own spiv going after me in the person of a Scot writing as Ephraim Hardcastle. Peter McKay gets my name wrong, my age wrong and everything I write wrong. The Daily Mail can do better, says poor little me.

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Herbert Thornton

October 9th, 2008 7:35am Report this comment

"Who needs daily to read and hear lowlifes put him through the ringer......"?

Oh dear. Is this the sign of a dead wringer?

ghostof'lectricity

October 10th, 2008 2:30am Report this comment

I'm with you, HT. Mr. Taki is always bloviating in an ersatz and often-inept display of erudition in support of his idiotic ideas. My favorite phrase in this week's column is "ephemeral mirage." As opposed to a solid mirage, no doubt.

Martin Pearce

October 10th, 2008 6:45pm Report this comment

Two solecisms in one column. He'll be ringing his hands in anguish.

David Short

October 11th, 2008 10:14pm Report this comment

Blame the subs, or lack of them, after the cheeseparing management sacked them.

I've still not quite recovered from the new illiterate Spectator putting on sales!

I'm not sure the ABCs would stand up to scrutiny though.

Duc de Blangis

October 13th, 2008 3:06am Report this comment

An entertaining article, but I'm not sure that Malaya was an exception. The compromises made by the UK during the Emergency only ensured the mutual emasculation of the opposing forces. Loss of a colony does not constitute a victory.

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