"When Cruelty Is Cute" by Maureen Dowd at the NY Times

[applegrove]

When Cruelty Is Cute

by Maureen Dowd at the NY Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/opinion/dowd-when-cruelty-is-cute.html

"SNIP.................................

He’s the cutest package that cruelty ever came in. He has a winning air of sad cheerfulness. He’s affable, clean cut and really cut, with the Irish altar-boy widow’s peak and droopy, winsome blue eyes and unashamed sentimentality.

Who better to rain misery upon the heads of millions of Americans?

He’s Scrooge disguised as a Pickwick, an ideologue disguised as a wonk. Not since Ronald Reagan tried to cut the budget by categorizing ketchup and relish as vegetables has the G.O.P. managed to find such an attractive vessel to mask harsh policies with a smiling face.

The Young Gun and former prom king is a fan of deer hunting, catfish noodling, heavy metal and Beethoven. He’s a great dad who says the cheese, bratwurst and beer of Wisconsin flow in his veins. He’s so easy to like — except that his politics are just a teensy bit heartless.

......................................SNIP"

[Zoeisright]

1. I don't think he's cute.

Mean and ignorant is never cute.

[applegrove]

2. I agree is party and stance make him revolting.

[roguevalley]

13. the picture of him staring at the camera looks like someone let the air out of his face

he looks like he's gorming or whatever they call it. Wall eyes and a collapsed face. Not cute.

[Cha]

15. Even his fucking face is ugly in

my opinion.

[LongTomH]

3. This quote from Sir Terry Pratchett seems quite appropriate to Ryan:

"Beauty. Grace. That's what matters. If cats looked like frogs, we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember." -- Granny Weatherwax in Pratchett's Lords and Ladies.

[applegrove]

5. That is so true.

[speedoo]

4. Cute, my ass.

He's an ugly sumbitch if there ever was one.. And those dopey facial expressions and body language are infantile.

[freshwest]

8. Ryan looks like a gargoyle to me, always has, just like Voldemort. Maybe they're ET's.

[dsteve01]

6. Didn't we go

into Afghanistan and Iraq because of what this paper printed?

I'd take it all with a grain of salt.

At least for another decade or two.

[MgtPA]

7. I don't recall Maureen Dowd beating the war drums

Maybe I missed that.

[dsteve01]

11. I just remember

Dick Chaney feeding a leak to the New York times saying that, "CIA Reports show that Weapons of Mass Destruction might be in the Middle East." New York Times went with it.

Next day, Chaney cited New York Times as legit proof on why we need to invade the middle east.

But then again, it is Chaney. Maybe New York Times isn't the one at fault here . . .

[xxqqqzme]

14. His tool was Judith Miller,

who worked @ the NYT then.

Dowd treated us to derision of Al Gore and his 'earth tone' suits.

[Stainless]

9. "Zombie-Eyed Granny-Starver"

Charles Pierce of Esquire Magazine coined that description of the prick that is Paul Ryan. We need a bumper sticker.

[catbyte]

10. Why on earth are Ryan, Cantor, & that other guy I can't remember

Who wrote that lame ass book "Young Guns"? Christ on a cracker, all of them are over 40 & Cantor's almost 50. THAT'S young?!? They are't even middle aged any more. How many men live to celebrate their 100th birthday?

Get real. Is that the best they've got?

[davidthegnome]

12. While Ryan is utterly despicable

Maureen Dowd, is, perhaps, not the best of all people to be talking about heartlessness.

[MFM008]

16. Eddie Munster

He looks like Eddie, he needs his wolf-wolf.