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[ by Charles Cameron — a quarter century of chyron and metaphor posts — Booker, 81 at Stanford, is now a legit sports metaphor for politics — finishing up with Beto and the Cult of the Dead Cow !! ]
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Ari Melber, the Beat 3/18/2019:
My notes on what happened which day are seriously confused at this point. I hope I can go back and rescue a chyron “Trumped” from the very start of this show, ami I right?
Quotes:
he sits at the center of a crime syndicate ..
John Flannery: to pin the tail on the donkey, the [ .. ] in the West Wing ..
Hardball 3/18/2019:
Cory Booker:
just another example of his moral vandalism ..
Ron Reagan:
What is it about John McCan that sets him off? John McCain was everything Donald Trump isn’t. John McCain wasa man ofn integrity and a man of great courage.
Meghan McCain:
My father waas his kryptonite in life, and is his kryptonite in death..
We now need, more than ever after this President, more than ever we need a revival of grace in our country, a revival of civic grace in our civic spaces..
I suppose this image is now a sports metaphor for politics
I got into Stanford because of a 4.0, 1600 — 4.0 yards per carry, 1,600 receiving yards..
at 27, not on my download to verify: I see this as whiffle-ball ..
at 38/9, sonny liston vs muhammad ali
40, we want to see some white smoke, some hope
40, the goose-eggs add up
59 steve king?
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Uncertain sources &c:
The house is just going to be a bear-pit ..
kasie:it’s a home game for him, not an away game
does he have what it takes to go the distance ..
i wasn’t born to run, but i am running ..
we are not trying to hide the ball here at all ..
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Three that I may have posted before, forgive me:
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And saving the best [??!!] for last:
As “PsychedelicWarlord,” O’Rourke spent most of his time posting thought-provoking essays, song lyrics from punk albums, and the occasional poem. At one point, he and another member interviewed a neo-Nazi. And in one post, he gave “The True Story of Cult of the Dead Cow,” in which he claimed authorship of the name..
Header for a Beto poem:
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