10 Feb 20
Professor Geoffrey Stevens, former managing editor of Canada’s National Fishwrap, mysteriously still gets to vent his considerable spleen regularly, having once been told to get lost from his typing gig.
Stevens made a rare display of his powers of bombast, describing Republicans as “his party of bootlickers” and to “his Republican lickspittles in Congress.” Funny, I’ve never heard this teacher of political science use such language in reference to the followers of Kim Jong-Un of North Korea, Xi of China, Castro of Cuba, or Maduro of Venezuela. You have to wonder what it is about Trump in triumph that drives Stevens around the bend?
Experts in poly sci know about the “never-Trump” movement in the Republican Party, and that David Frum is one of the last and most discredited members of that near-extinct sect. Yet, Professor Stevens quotes Frum for two whole paragraphs, either out of writer’s fatigue or because he can use Frum’s vituperation without assuming responsibility for it, and for Frum’s creative and frequent variations on the word ‘lie.’
Stevens inadvertently exposed himself when he referred to Rush Limbaugh, a 32 year veteran of talk radio and who is dying of lung cancer, as “reprehensible” and “a pre-eminent race-baiter.” Anyone who has followed Rush for any length of time knows that Rush is a “liberal-baiter” and a “progressive-baiter”, but not a race baiter. Steven’s evidently swallowed Rush’s bait a long time ago and is still thrashing about on the hook.
You have to wonder about the quality of education the poor J-students at Moo U are getting from the benighted Stevens.
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