After reviewing a transcript of President Nixon’s secret tapes, Norman Mailer commented in The New Yorker, “He lacks the simple New York smart to keep the obscenities in. . . We still do not know if he even swears well.”To be fair, Mirengoff updated:
As for President Obama, we now know that he doesn’t...
For the record, and trust me on this, “horseshit” means bad; “bullshit” means wrong.
I’m getting push back on my definition of horseshit. It seems that these days, the two words — bullshit and horseshit — have become closer in meaning...You can't go too far wrong if you have a poetic sensibility and righteous indignation.
UPDATE. Elsewhere on the "They try -- man, how they try!" beat, Obama spoke at a fundraiser on Martha's Vineyard and joked about how the water was colder there than in Hawaii. Here's how Breitbart.com headlined it:
AT MARTHA'S VINEYARD, OBAMA COMPLAINS ABOUT COLD OCEANIt's like a variation on the old Can't Swim joke. And, per the rule of three, here's a link to really ruin your day: Something called "Truesbury," in which some guy takes old Doonesbury strips about Republican Presidents and, I'm not kidding, sticks references to Obama into the world balloons. Who says conservatives can't do culture?
