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June 4, 2006

Gasbags, Professional Blatherers, and Michelle Malkin

F
ollowing Michelle Malkin's lead, I too will go all artsy and quote Gerard van der Leun, here arguing against worrying too much about Ann Coulter's charge that Democrats are "traitors":
Yes, I know, I know about Ashcroft['s use of the language of treason in describing critics of the Administration] but I've still to get a real case of Ashcroftitus raising a rash on my brain. In so many places and at so many times, the man has shown himself to be a gasbag. A dangerous one to be sure, but it really isn't in what he says, it is in what he can do that counts.

Likewise, it is in what the government can do and not so much in what it says that we need to be ready to be alarmed. Does Anne Coulter command the Justice Department or the National Guard? Does Bill O'Reilly have the power to shut down the presses of the New York Times? I know it is fun to get all hot and bothered by these professional blatherers, but until such time as they meld into the Government, it might be best for every one to take a deep breath and say, with Glinda the Good Witch: "You have no power here. Begone, before somebody drops a house on you."

van der Leun calls them "blatherers," but I tend to think of Hot Air.

Posted by Eric at June 4, 2006 3:52 PM

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