George Will on Newt Gingrich: Episode CCXLI of The American Political Melodrama

The comic potential of The Great Will(TGW) is not wasted, here, as he fulminates about the virtue-less posturing of Newt Gingrich,sounding all those Calvinist notes of the inherently sinfulness of man, as located in that egregious perennial candidate. In quick succession, with his usual scowling,glowering dismissiveness of the Head Master, he makes quick work of the former Speaker. All very Dickensian, to awkwardly mix my metaphors. But certainly worth the price of admission. TGW is America’s Great Fake Political Moralist with a rather untidy history of his own, although that remains hidden behind that carefully stage managed personae.

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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