This could be a regular featureA: monkfish, Jerry Seinfeld, and baseball Q: What are three excuses to bash George Bush? First we have this nugget from a recipe from the New York Times: If you see a whole monkfish at the market, you'll find its massive mouth scarier than a shark's. Apparently it sits on the bottom of the ocean, opens its Godzilla jaws and waits for poor unsuspecting fishies to swim right into it, not unlike the latest recipients of W's capital-gains cuts.The next two comes courtesy of Dan Drezner. Tom Shales, in the Washington Post, was disappointed that there wasn't any Bush bashing in Jerry Seinfeld's comedy act, so he couragously fills the void: The one disappointment was that neither Seinfeld nor Leifer did any political humor. It seemed especially odd since President Bush is such an easily mocked figure. Maybe that's it. Maybe it's too easy. It was dismaying, too, to hear Seinfeld ask for a round of applause for "the troops" in Iraq. Not that there's anything wrong with that. And not that "the troops" don't merit honor and homage. But what an easy way to get applause.It was dismaying that Tom Shales is such an idiotic asshat. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Finally, we have Frank DeFord from Sports Illustrated, who thinks that football is more popular than baseball because of ... racism! And let's throw Bush in there too: ... maybe these times are most in tune with football. At a time when the United States is arrogant, unilateral and insular, baseball can have all its Latins and Asians, and basketball can have all its Croats and Lithuanians, but football is still ours, 100% pure 'Mercan. It's ironic. Although George W. Bush is of baseball, he operates with none of the patient rhythms of the sport but simply charges ahead. He is perhaps the most un-baseball president since the unrepentant Teddy Roosevelt, who declared: "In life, as in a football game ... hit the line hard."Drezner has a suggestion I'm sure Nick would like: Drezner's assignment to Gregg Easterbrook: eviscerate Deford's absurd position -- in haiku.What's that I hear about media bias? |
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