Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
"Sarah Palin is much, much smarter than I am."
That's what I want the editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post -- hell, throw in the usual suspects in the rest of the media -- to repeat each morning.
Just to remind themselves of the truth. Just to keep them from looking stupid. Or, more stupid. Just to keep them from doing silly, Palin-deranged things like enlisting their readers to "crowd source" the analysis of all of those Governor Palin emails.
I know they thought they were being smart and modern -- not really, of course; that was a disingenuous pose. What they wanted was to get Palin, to nail her with her own emails, and they needed a lot of eyeballs to do it -- but then, Wile E. Coyote was trying to be smart and modern by enlisting the help of the Acme Corporation.
Turns out, the emails are pretty tame stuff. Turns out, the emails paint a portrait of a hands-on, modest, thoughtful governor. Sarah Palin is speeding along the desert road munching on bird seed. The New York Times and the Washington Post -- institutions groaning with their own flatulent pomposity, convinced of their own genius -- are flattened on the canyon floor after a long drop and a puff of dust.
The Road Runner was demonstrably smarter than Wile E. Coyote. Sarah Palin is demonstrably smarter than the editors of the New York Times and the Washington Post.
If you are a New York Times editor, or a Washington Post editor, and you are reading this, you should repeat after me: "I am dumber, demonstrably, than Sarah Palin. She is smarter, demonstrably, than I am."
Repeat as necessary.
Beep beep.
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Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Hahahaha... this is a wonderful post.... but let's get our facts straight! It's "Meep meep!" "Me-meep!" is also acceptable.
Aug '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Well, that puts an interesting spin on things. According to my dear hubs, Wile E only chases after the Road Runner because he is Secretly In Love with her.
Hubs also informed me that Wile E's nose is a phallic symbol. I was scandalized by this news. Scandalized, I tell you.
Jun '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
"...institutions groaning with their own flatulent pomposity, convinced of their own genius..."
Ha Ha!
I love this post!
May '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
But he has the business card!
Jun '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Rob: Thanks for avoiding liberal-style abstractions. This even I can understand.
Do you think there's a political message in Tom and Jerry?
Dec '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Considering the rather vocal beliefs of some on this site, and in the Brooklyn accented words of another Warner Brothers fave:
"Of course you realize this means war!"
Dec '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Wile E. Coyote, Genius, chases after the Road Runner for the same reason he attempted to outsmart Bugs Bunny in outings like "Operation Rabbit": he wants to eat him for dinner.
The Road Runner's great gift is to play dumb, as though he would be susceptible to Wile E.'s schemes and traps. For this, Wile E. keeps handing out free seed to the Road Runner and engaging in near-suicidal antics -- never catching on that the Road Runner really is smart: maybe not as smart as Wile E., but then again, smart enough to recognize every trap and not so smart that he outsmarts himself into getting killed.
Oct '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
The sound the horn on Palins bus makes now needs to change !!!!
Marvelous. The MSM folks would get TMJ.....
Mar '11
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Very apt. I would add some of the rules of Roadrunner cartoons, from Chuck Jones' autobiography (Chuck Amuck):
Jul '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
I wouldn't go that far, though I have been told I have a nice profile. :)
Interestingly, Chuck Jones supposedly intended that the audience was supposed to sympathize with the Coyote. The idea was to make him "likable but inept". The media only satisfies half of that formulation.
May '10
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I just saw this piece of ridiculousness from a site (Business Insider) that I mostly like, except when they leave the topics of business and economics to weigh in on politics and then they are numbingly wrong-headed.
Apparently in the emails they have found their own answer to the Birther movement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-palin-email-trig-pregnancy-hoax-2011-6
Needless to say, the email says the pregnancy was easy, not the birth...
May '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
It's almost enough to make you feel sorry for liberals. Here they were so sure that being left meant being on the right side of history—being "progressive", sophisticated, enlightened, mature, nuanced, thoughtful. Tea-party-types—and a fortiori Sarah Palin!— are regressive, ignorant, bigoted, stupid, embarrassing. This is one of life's "givens", right? I mean, you can NOT go wrong sneering at Palin. Right?...Right?
Aug '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Palin Derangement Syndrome is a cruel taskmaster.
It's as if they've started stealing toasters to feed their habit.
May '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Where else very recently did I read this Road Runner analogy?
May '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
I know! It Was Jeffrey Lord. American Spectator. He beat you to it, Rob.
Edited on Jun 13, 2011 at 3:17pmMay '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Midget Faded Rattlesnake: Well, that puts an interesting spin on things. According to my dear hubs, Wile E only chases after the Road Runner because he is Secretly In Love with her.
Hubs also informed me that Wile E's nose is a phallic symbol. I was scandalized by this news. Scandalized, I tell you. · Jun 13 at 12:53pm
I think this tells us more about your hubs' dirty mind than it does about Road Runner.
Dec '10
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Wile E. did catch the roadrunner once...
Aug '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
MFR,
Those Flippin Freudians bamboozled your hubby. Sometimes a snout is just a snout.
Sometimes a great big shiny red rocket is just a great big... Oh my.
Never mind.
May '10
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
The Acme anvil is smarter than the NYT & WaPo combined.
Mar '11
Re: Sarah Palin = Road Runner. NYTimes and WaPo = Wile E. Coyote
Rob Long
If you are a New York Times editor, or a Washington Post editor, and you are reading this, you should repeat after me: "I am dumber, demonstrably, than Sarah Palin. She is smarter, demonstrably, than I am."
It would be humbling for Mr Obama to repeat the same mantra as he plays Golf after his retirement from public life, and while writing his next Autobiography, as he watches the US economy, deficit and job market recover.
He could substitute Paul Ryan, or the proverbial syphilitic camel, as circumstances dictate.