I’m Truly Sorry To Foist This Embarrassment On You, But…
…is this the new worst opening in columnist history, vaulting past even the storied ranks of MoDo bird-cage liners?:
Imagine that: Tom DeLay speaking truth to power.“We don’t have an agreed agenda,” DeLay told a group of sympathetic reporters this week. “Breaking up our leadership has taken its toll.”
So, a few questions arise:
1. Why, oh, God, WHY, do people continue to use perhaps the most tired, meaningless, disgustingly infantile phrase in politics today? ‘Speaking truth to power’ never made sense in the past and makes far less sense in the present.
2. What power is Delay ‘speaking truth’ to? The group of sympathetic reporters?
3. Sympathetic? To Tom Delay? Spin me another yarn…
And this, my friends, is E. J. Dionne’s lead – cliched, nonsensical, and absurd.
How about the rest of the column?
Who cares? You want to read the rest of it, be my guest…I had a sample, and I didn’t care for it…
Isn’t membership in the ranks of the down-trodden or proletariat required in order to qualify you to “speak truth to power”?
Reminds me of that phone advert:
“It’s just my little way of ‘sticking it to the MAN’!”
“But… aren’t YOU… the… MAN?”
“…Maybe.”
So…what happens when someone is “speaking lies to weakness”?
It all sounds like some REALLY bad campaign tagline. Maybe Dionne can use his (ahem) skills to help Cynthia McKinney’s re-election effort.
“Speaking truth to power: McKinney for Congress 06′ “
Have you noticed that the people who brag about speaking “truth to power” never seem to pick a power that will retaliate? It’s simply not an act of bravery if nothing is at risk.
Spot on. When was the last time anyone spoke “truth to power” regarding the many atrocities comitted in the name of Islam?
(sound of crickets chirping).
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