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February 12, 2005
Storytelling time with Dr. Dean
I wrote earlier that if I'm going to pop a cork at every piece of post-Nov. 2 good news, it looks like I'll have to buy at least a case of champagne. Howard Dean's ascendency to the DNC chairmanship is just the excuse I've been waiting for to break out another bottle.
In fact, when I read Powerline this afternoon, I realized I might need a magnum. Dean appears to have fallen victim to the "storytelling" meme that seems to be mass-hypnotizing the left. (CNN's Jon Klein recently proudly pledged allegiance to "storytelling." This was, of course, before Eason's fables tarnished whatever was left of their good name.)
(And what a tragic idea to base your strategy on. "Storytelling" — wasn't that what BusHitler was doing when he read "My Pet Goat" to a classroom full of children as the WTC burned? Isn't that what you do when it's bedtime for the kids — tell them a nice little story?)
So this appears to be the brilliant new Democratic strategy: spoonfeeding spin to the childlike American people. Those Jesuslanders will learn to love the Democrats as soon as they understand liberal ideology as a "story." Suddenly, all those failed mid-20th century ideas will seem different, new, and wonderful! And the nice storyteller will tell the audience who the good guys and bad guys are. None of that tiring "deciding for yourself." And we'll all live happily ever after.*
Today, I raise a glass of champagne to Dr. Dean's idea that it's not the contents, it's the wrapping. It's not the facts, but the light in which the facts are conveyed. To Dr. Dean, for believing that all the Democratic Party needs is a more efficient way to polish the turd it keeps offering us every two years. Keep polishing, Dr. Dean! By 2008, I'm sure it'll look like gold! Cheers!
*Just as soon as Princess Hillary vanquishes the bad man, BusHitler.
Posted by EtherPundit at February 12, 2005 03:31 PM Category: Mockery , Moonbats , Politics
Comments
I'm not sure I'd be talking about which party puts style above substance. There's a reason President Bush is often characterized as an empty cowboy hat.
He displays himself as a rugged man, a man of the earth and the people, and he speaks with a Texas drawl, even though no one else in his family does.
We're in a war that was wrapped in WMD, but when Christmas came, the box was empty.
Yes, the Democratic Party needs an overhaul, but criticism from the right about style over substance is almost laughable.
Posted by: PusBoy at February 18, 2005 02:37 PM