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Look back in anger

September 14, 2008 - 8:55 pm - by Richard Fernandez
steveaz
2008-09-15 07:20:18

Who here has seen the movie, “Napoleon Dynamite?”

Well, Greenberg’s stunt reminds me of Pedro’s pinata stunt: he and Napoleon craft a blond pinata-effigy of his opponent, Summer, and then they take turns swinging at it with a bat.

Frankly, I thought it was funny in the movie, but, Greenberg’s stunt, not so much. If I were a Saudi Sheik or a Gaz Prom billionaire bent on polluting America’s electoral discourse, getting a rag like the Atlantic to throw poo at McCain would be a top-ten goal of mine.

Hmmm…monkeys throwing poo? Could it be Greenburg just mimicked the Democratic party on the cover of the Atlantic? Has she committed an accidental projection, perhaps?