{"id":61840,"date":"2019-01-01T04:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T04:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61840"},"modified":"2019-01-01T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T07:17:08","slug":"the-small-matter-of-a-semi-permeable-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=61840","title":{"rendered":"The small matter of a semi-permeable metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[ by Charles Cameron <\/strong>— a metaphor is not a simile, a solid object is not a metaphor, a promise is not a solid object ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senator Lindsey Graham<\/strong> thought of the wall as a code-word<\/strong> back in April 2017 according to Tina Nguyen<\/strong>‘s Hive report titled IT SURE SEEMS LIKE TRUMP JUST GAVE UP ON HIS BORDER WALL:<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There will never be a 2,200-mile wall built, period,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s become symbolic of better border security. It\u2019s a code word for better border security. If you make it about actually building a 2,200-mile wall, that\u2019s a bridge too far \u2014 but I\u2019m mixing my metaphors. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there was the wall as metaphor, also in 2017, and not from Senator Graham <\/strong>— as Lisa Mascaro<\/strong> reported in the Los Angeles Times<\/em>, in Trump wants a border wall, but few in Congress want to pay for it<\/a> that same April:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, has called the wall a “metaphor” for border security \u2013 saying it’s one tool, among many, to protect the nearly 2,000-mile frontier. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comes now Senator Graham<\/strong>, late to the party:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wall has become a metaphor for border security. What we\u2019re talking about is a physical barrier where it makes sense. There\u2019s nothing wrong with a physical barrier along the border where it makes sense.
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**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pelosi <\/strong>opines “The wall has become a metaphor for border security” and Colbert <\/strong>deadpans “So the wall is a metaphor for his manhood? No wonder he\u2019s having trouble erecting it.” Alexander Hernandez<\/strong>, Esq. ponders “I wonder if we can pay for the wall with cash metaphors?”
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And Rolling Stone<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s all a power game to the president, and in that sense the border wall is, like Graham admitted on Sunday, nothing more than a metaphor, one that Trump wants Americans \u2014 not Mexico, as he promised \u2014 to pay tens of billions of dollars to conjure into existence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pelosi<\/strong> again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says, ‘we’re going to build a wall with cement and Mexico’s going to pay for it\u2019 while he’s already backed off of the cement \u2013 now he’s down to, I think, a beaded curtain or something. <\/p>

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And Kelly<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe president still says \u2018wall\u2019 \u2014 oftentimes frankly he\u2019ll say \u2018barrier\u2019 or \u2018fencing,\u2019 now he\u2019s tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

**<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This metaphor thing is getting out of control. Has been, in fact, since April 2017, still just last year as I write this, with less than a dozen hours to go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy new year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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