Beware: Chrysostom on Libya and Obama

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/04/how-high-were-the-pharoahs.html?om_rid=De4wA2&om_mid=_BNmhfUB8aFIWCT

 

Before our very eyes Chrysostom (C)has transformed himself into an armchair general with sources in the White House, whom he can contact at will: this is an accretion of power that his colleague Cogitating Peter can only envy, from a distance. Yet we can rely on our former scholarship boy to take the rhetorical highroad, here are some of his latest gems : Popping the Qaddafi Zit, Libyan clusterfuck, pop the zit strategy. Call it impressive? Or call it a lot of trendy rhetorical flash, barely aping the imperatives of actual thought: perfect for a Tina Brown publication. Regarding his literary style; a breathless combination of Hedda Hopper, Walter Lippmann and Carrie Bradshaw; now, don’t pretend you don’t know Hedda and Walter! And Policy never had it so good? But a salient question remains to be answered: dare we trust C, whose lack of judgment proved calamitous?   

    

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