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PurityOfEssence Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-11-05 12:44 PM
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8. Rousing rhetoric amplifies imbecility
This little nobody so thirsts to be a Churchill or Roosevelt that it hurts to watch him try. It's just like that oh-so-calculated scribbling of "let freedom reign": something that wants to be taken as off-the-cuff eloquence when it's really carefully calculated and an example of slobbering idiocy. The line is "let freedom ring", and I doubt Ninny-boy knows that any more than he knows that "freedom" can't "reign" over anything. "Freedom" can't "maintain absolute power" over something. Just as "freedom is on the march" sounds tinny beyond belief. Freedom goose-steps in hob-nailed boots; rally round the flag, boys.

The tone-deafness of the purple prose hacked up by these thugs is hard on the ears.
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