Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, May 11, 2006


I mentioned "indignation" in my first post today. I wonder if indignation isn't the Beltway's most overused strategem. The weenie Bill Frist was INDIGNANT over gas prices. The superpartisan Pat Leahy is INDIGNANT over Dubya's "spying." In light of the ERIC SEVAREID OF COMEDY's IMMORTAL WORDS (these Beltway idiots are STILL debating him!), we should ask if indignation isn't just another name for showboating. It is easy to be piqued over things like gas prices and "spying"; but we know gas prices are largely beyond our control, and we know we're spied on enough without the NSA. Indignation has become so much the act that when something deserves real indignation -- for starters, our blithe disregard for human life -- we're so inundated with indignation we can only respond with a cynical French shrug. Indignation is for Koses, SAM LITTLES and fundraisers. Indignation is for PHONIES.

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