Posted
8:41 PM
by Gene
NRO has scrunched itself into one big furrow over the sins of its reprobate contributor. That a man should choose to copy from a fifth-rate rock ad-blurbist like Tom Moon is damning enough. But we wonder if these are the sins of one reprobate author or of a profession; for not long before we looked up reviews of THE GREATEST SATIRE IN WORLD HISTORY (so NRO believes), and found (
among others) these heds:
Film review: A pleasant and vaguely irritating habit
Smooth, but hardly addictive
Kicking Butt
‘Smoking’s’ dark humor will leave you hooked
Cigarette satire never quite lights up
MOVIE REVIEW: "SMOKING" IS A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Satire, and no butts about itAnd so on. And so on and so on. And so on and so on and so on. Which is the worse sin: copying or copying by osmosis? Can we expect the vaguest, minimalist originality from a biz that inflicts us with such relentless unfunny puns and such Xerox-like thinking?