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May 25, 2006

John Dickerson: Narcisnarkist

by AltHippo @ 11:17 am. Filed under hacks

I don’t care much for Slate’s John Dickerson. I’ve never met him, though it’s a small town, and chances are good I’ll run into him at some point.

I’m just saying there’s nothing about him personally that I object to.

It’s just that he has this back-handed style I find a bit passive-agressive. Like when he quotes Arianna Huffington praising Gore: “”When people are exposed to the new Gore—authentic, funny, self-deprecating—you can almost feel their relief and surprise as they suddenly come to face to face with what a real leader could be.” He then follows it up with: (Slate)

This has got to be stirring for a guy who was essentially laughed out of town after losing the 2000 election.

Not only is that nasty, it’s not accurate. Maybe Dickerson, and a clutch of like-minded cynical jerkoffs laughed at Gore post-election, most of us saw it more like the forces of darkness chalking up a major victory against the will of the people. Most of us saw that Bush was a pretender to the most powerful single position in the world. He hadn’t earned it. He was a drunk turned pretend-Christian-cowboy in an Armani suit.

Apparently, Dickerson didn’t notice much about the anti-Constitutional fraud that the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Baker machine had just perpetrated. He was too busy laughing at Gore.

I’ll also note that Dickerson appears to like the canard about lefty bloggers, shrilly Dean-screaming across the internets. To whit:

The problem is that the activists and bloggers most approving of Gore’s “authenticity” also seem the least likely to allow any deviation from their definition of it.

So, Mr. Dickerson (you have no idea how tempting it is to mistype his last name), when you go to work for Slate do they give you a book of cliches to quote from (Gore’s a loser, lefties are shrill, etc.)? Or is that just you.

Update: KCinDC reminds me that Bush is the authentic one. As if I needed any proof, here’s teh Norbot:

During a discussion about potential 2008 presidential candidates, O’Donnell said, “I think one of the most important things … is authenticity.” She then attributed the unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-MA) to a lack of it. O’Donnell continued, “And as much as people may disagree with President Bush about the war, many other things, what he does have, to some degree, is authenticity.”

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One Response to “John Dickerson: Narcisnarkist”

  1. KCinDC Says:
    May 25th, 2006 at 11:57 am

    Unfortunately, in terms of effects on politics, the important definition of “authenticity” is the one used by people in the media like Dickerson, and that definition includes as one of its core components being a Republican. McCain and Bush can have “authenticity” regardless of how transparently false they are, while Gore and Dean and Kerry are fake regardless of what they say. The media folks are the ones who aren’t allowing any deviation from their ridiculous preset story lines.

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