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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, October 14, 2005

RE: Outrage of the week? There are just too many candidates

Thoughts?

As partisan agit-prop goes, it's not bad. It is really one of Molly's better efforts. I think she may have been reading Ann Coulter lately because the quality of her bombast, from a purely stylistic point of view, is much improved. I think the most effective forms of propaganda have slightly higher ratios of truth in them, but she's improved that as well. It is still formed around a completely simplistic context that wouldn't survive outside the rarified air of the liberal press, but that's just Molly.

The real outrage of the week is that the Senate chose to blatantly overstep their constitutional bounds by passing the legislation at all. I'm not sure if Bush has signed it, but if he did, that would then be the second biggest outrage of the week.

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