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Monday, August 15, 2005

Giving Bush The Brody Slap

Maxim Editor-In-Chief Greg Gutfield on Cindy Sheehan:

GREG'S OBLIGATORY CINDY SHEEHAN POST !

Sitting here with my can of beer online shopping for a new gardening hat, I can't help but think: what do the thoughtful Huffposters really want out of this media-inflated standoff with President Bush?
It must be:

The CHIEF BRODY SLAP.

THE CHIEF BRODY SLAP is based on the infamous scene in Jaws when a distraught mom slaps Roy Scheider across the face. Her son was eaten by a shark, but she blames the sheriff. Because he didn't do enough. It's not the shark, it's the sheriff. It's like me blaming Arianna for Christine Lahti's post. But unjustified. And with a shark.

THE CHIEF BRODY SLAP (CBS) is a chief staple in an any liberal diet: a fiery mix of outrage, self-rightious indignation and condemnation delivered from a moral highground so lofty it gives you a nosebleed. The Brody Slap is predicated on the idea that you don't need a solution, only blame. Who needs a real alternative when you're already outraged?


Read the whole, hilarious thing.

Funniest thing about the post? Its appearing on The Huffington Post, which has been the internet's Cindy Sheehan central since day one of her protest.

Comments

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He should go out there, graciuosly hand her into the pickup, and drive her up to the house. In this very personal and private matter the press have no right to intrude. Period.

2Hotel9 on August 15, 2005 at 02:08 pm
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Doesn’t Brody later slap the character played by Richard Dreyfuss, who lapses into womanly hysteria just at the moment when it becomes time for The Men to FIGHT or DIE?

Marty on August 15, 2005 at 04:08 pm
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I disagree, 2H9.  I think it’s a matter of principle at this point that you can’t just demande the Commander in Cheif’s attention and expect to get it.  If she was polite and requested a visit, I think he might have done just that.  But she’s grandstanding, she’s not being genuine.

Sheehan wants more than anything to call Bush a liar to his face in front of cameras. She doesn’t actually want to talk…

Sphagnum on August 15, 2005 at 04:08 pm
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I know, A. But being the Southern Gentleman/Tejas Rancher, W is reguired to do the hospitality thang. No matter how much this bitch needs punched in the mouth for bringing dishonor upon her son’s sacrifice.

2Hotel9 on August 15, 2005 at 05:08 pm
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I can’t remember, marty. I have read the book so many times I can not remember what happens in the movie.

2Hotel9 on August 15, 2005 at 05:08 pm
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Funny you should mention the book.  I read it when i was, oh 12 i suppose, long before i could legally see the movie.  I don’t remember much, except for the chapter that my parents had cut out of the book.  A big gap of torn pages, having something to do with (or so i hear) adultery.  I must not have missed much—they cut that part out of the movie as well…

Marty on August 15, 2005 at 06:09 pm
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2H9 - that’s what I’ve thought for a while. A private conversation. Except the second she’s back from the ranch she’ll be in front of 50 cameras and mikes lying her ass off.

ICallMasICM on August 16, 2005 at 04:09 am
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That is when you release the tape made by the White House videographer. Complete with written transcript and photos.

2Hotel9 on August 16, 2005 at 06:09 am
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Don’t tell her it is there, only the photog. Video recording equipment is rather small anymore. Hell, if the photog is using digital system they could be doing both.

2Hotel9 on August 16, 2005 at 07:08 am
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That is when you release the tape made by the White House videographer.

What is to stop her from playing to the camera?

likwidshoe on August 16, 2005 at 07:08 am
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That’s not really a private conversation and it’s unethical and possibly illegal.

ICallMasICM on August 16, 2005 at 08:08 am
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Since when did ethics or legality enter into politics. You fight fire with fire. She set the boundries in this little psycho-drama when she crapped all over her dead child and what he believed in and died for. I say we fight this particular fire with a napalm strike. Vaporize this woman right off the planet, politically speaking.

2Hotel9 on August 16, 2005 at 09:08 am
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I don’t think that’s the right approach. I really don’t think there’s any reason for the President to do that and I don’t think it would work. He should go out take her aside and talk to her in private, which is after all what she says she wants.

ICallMasICM on August 16, 2005 at 10:08 am
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Didn’t two Bush admin. guys go out and talk to her one of the first days she was protesting?  Meaning that she’s now talked to the President and two high-ranking cabinet members?

How much does she want?


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Rob on August 16, 2005 at 05:08 pm
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She wants more. And more. And more. She will never be satisfied. Period.

2Hotel9 on August 16, 2005 at 06:09 pm
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