>Tacky, tacky, tacky. Maybe tin ear, I’m not sure. That might explain why he didn’t say anything like “Guys… cheering? Come on, be respectful.” Either way– did nobody say “Hey, maybe handing out t-shirts with a logo on them is a little, um, out of bounds for a memorial service?” (Side: why does a school have [...]
> Appearing on CNN [Sunday] morning, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said Fox News exists simply to further the agenda of the GOP. “Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,” Dunn said. This is the second time in a week that Dunn has [...]
>Oooh, very mature, dude. Do you often flash back to fifth grade, when this and things like flipping folks off “accidentally” while scratching your nose were clever? Good grief.
>when taken with all the other troubling patterns. That Obama administration officials would make even tacit suggestions about potential artistic output to a collection of federal grant recipients is, itself, troubling. That these suggestions matched-up with very specific and time-sensitive legislative priorities should give us all pause. Let’s see…. coffee hasn’t hit my blood yet, [...]
>I’m not the only one who’s noticed it.
>I’m thinking of making a series of posts on this, since it seems so very common with this administration…. tin ear n. Informal An insensitivity to music or to sounds of a given kind: a writer with a tin ear for dialogue. I can vaguely remember saying to myself: “I can’t believe they actually just [...]
