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| Thalia, Muse of Comedy. Playing card, Ferrara, ca. 1465, Chatsworth House. |
The gods gave me a joke yesterday, an amazing Franco-American pun, which I'll never possibly get an opportunity to use again, over at Lawyers, Guns, and Money, where Scott Lemieux was in especially grand form mocking Ezra Klein's opinion that pundits (of the really respectable kind, like Ezra Klein) must have a really crucial, possibly intimidating (or voxtimidating) influence on the Supreme Court. Reproduced without comment:
Malaclypse says:
Autonomous Coward says:
Don’t forget the ultimate dirty trick in the left-wing journo’s arsenal: reminding people what the victim said in the past!Scott Lemieux says:
Remember Bork — there is no dirtier trick than accurately describing a conservative judge’s publicly stated views.- You know it’s you Roberts especially dreads, because he believes in The Good, and as Voltaire said, “Lemieux est l’ennemi du bien.”
Interviewer: What did he do?
Josh: He used sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.