Our leftie friends at Mother Jones put it this way:
Benjamin Netanyahu just
mansplained Iran to Obama
Er, okay. Glad you said that because there'd be no end to
it if some rightie guy sneered that Obama was our first female president.
For what it's
worth, I prefer mansplaining to 'Bamsplaining, where he peddles a lot of
gaseous pap interrupted by cheap digs at straw men and all delivered in that
set-your-watch-by-it left-right prompter-swivel. (To stick with the Mother
Jones shtick, real men don't use prompters.)
But, if this was
"mansplaining", it was a big man doing the 'splaining. The shout-out
to Harry Reid, the "my long-time friend John Kerry" schmoozeroo, all
this was brilliant - not because everyone doesn't understand how fake it is, but
because the transparent fakery underlines how easy it is to be big and generous
and magnaninmous and get the snippy parochial stuff out of the way to
concentrate on what really matters.
Obama could have done this. He could have said yesterday, "Hey, my good friend Bibi and I don't see eye to eye on everything, but I'd have to be an awfully thin-skinned insecure narcissistic little dweeb to make that a capital offense, wouldn't I? So, since he's in town anyway, I've asked him to swing by the White House for an hour to shoot the breeze - and maybe we can have that dinner we missed out on the last time, right, Prime Minister? Hur-hur-hur."…..To Read More……
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