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Is charlatan too weak a word?

The Difference between the Parties

There is an interesting and bright-line difference between the Democrat and Republican parties in the United States. When, in 2008, there arose within the Democrats a charismatic fraud and a charlatan, the old guard and media outlets of this party embraced him enthusiastically and rode him to power. Now, in 2016, when an equivalent bigger-than-life blaggard appears within the Republican party, the establishment of this party disavows him and goes into full panic mode ... trying to excise him like a cancerous tumor.

Pettifogger

Donald Trump loves to insult his foes ... calling them losers or maniacs or psychos or worse. But these single-word slights are very American ... as opposed to the English who, over the centuries, have developed rapier-like grandiloquent digs that send their adversaries quivering into the corner. As an homage to this British tradition, I herein offer some refined jibes that could be directed toward The Donald.

He is a:

Vainglorious varleto
Plutocratic pettifogger
Repetitious rapscallion
Bumptious bilious blowhard
Hirsute horse petute
Fatuous fliptwiddle
Braggadocios blatherskite
Flag-waving fruitloop
Cringe-worthy charlatan
Malicious montebank
Pandering pecksniffian

Marco or Rand or Jeb or Carly or Chris or Ted ... feel free to use any of these British brickbats without attribution whenever Trump tickles you.


Afterward: Also please note the following Trump veteran revelation: The Federalist Story. Is this a taste of our future? And visit; Powerline Blog.

Sign of the Times

It has been revealed that the sign-language interpreter (signer) at the Nelson Mandela memorial ceremonies yesterday in Pretoria, South Africa was a total charlatan.  None of his hand gestures meant anything to anybody … it was total hand-waving gibberish … see: UK Evening Standard.  It is too tempting to resist the comment that, at this, he made more sense than many of the puffed-up speakers whom he stood beside.

In fact John Kerry has already contacted this man to be his signer for his next Congressional session explaining our interim nuclear agreement with Iran.

Joe for Oil

Joe Kennedy II, one son of Robert Kennedy, has been running ads on local television touting his and the recently departed Hugo Chavez’s generosity in providing heating oil for the poor people in Boston.  (As it turns out, this generosity is limited to 100 gallons of free oil per household … if you can get his company on the phone … and then you need to buy the rest of your oil-tank fill-up at normal rates.  See: Breitbart Story).

He has given himself the puffery title “Joe for Oil” and is seen on his TV ads dragging the oil filler hose with some impoverished child … preparing to provide (some) oil to the family of this urchin.  To see part of one of these self-aggrandizing ads go to: YouTube Video

Long ago, I wrote about this Kennedy charlatan (it seems to run in the family) … see: Sow's Ear, but Howie Carr has better scoured “Joe for Oil” in a recent column in the Boston Herald newspaper.  Joe Kennedy takes a salary of almost a million dollars from what he touts as a non-profit company, “Citizens Oil," and his wife pulls down well over $300,000 (for doing what it is not clear).  Basically, Joe Kennedy is running an ancillary for-profit oil trading operation (like Enron) and had gotten cozy with “our friend in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez” I’m reasonably sure to get a good price for the oil he then mostly resells at a nice profit … all the while giving the impression that he is a super do-gooder.  This is despicable behavior and I hope against hope that his unfair price leverage in now diminished as a result of Hugo Chavez’s demise.

Instead of “Joe for Oil,” I think that this Kennedy poppinjay might better be called “Oily Joe.”