Wooden Ya Know
"When I first got up here, I thought blogging was an Irish dance."
--Tricia Enright, communications director for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, in a USA Today piece on the growing influence of political blogs.
Wooden Ya Know
"When I first got up here, I thought blogging was an Irish dance."
--Tricia Enright, communications director for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, in a USA Today piece on the growing influence of political blogs.
I'm just happy that doctoral students in political science have this new phenomenon to use as a focus in their work. The only good dissertation is a FINISHED dissertation.
Lena Cuisina, PhD at January 1, 2004 9:43 PM
"When I first got up here, I thought blogging was an Irish dance."
--Tricia Enright, communications director for Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, in a USA Today piece on the growing influence of political blogs.
Actually, "clogging" is not an Irish dance. It's Scottish.
When it comes to dumb things said, nothing can top the idiocy rendered by Aussie popstress Kylie Minogue when asked to comment on the situation in South Africa: "Er... they should stop killing rhinos?"
Patrick at January 2, 2004 4:30 AM
That's okay, Tricia. When most Irish people heard the name Howard Dean for the first time, they thought he was a sausage maker.
Jeff at January 2, 2004 8:12 AM
Patrick --
What's more idiotic than asking Kylie Minogue to comment on the situation in South Africa? Expecting her to have something significant to say about it. There are some conversations that should never even happen.
Jeff --
Howard Dean isn't a sausage maker. He's a sausage. He's going to lose the election not because of his anti-war stance, but because of his porky pudginess. I can hear the focus group participants right now, "Too fat! Why can't he do Atkins or something?"
Lena at January 2, 2004 9:55 AM
Lena writes: "Patrick --
What's more idiotic than asking Kylie Minogue to comment on the situation in South Africa? Expecting her to have something significant to say about it. There are some conversations that should never even happen."
I agree with this, actually. She's a definitive bubblegummist, after all. Why is she being asked to comment on it?
I've often thought about this and it was either one of the dumbest or one of the smartest things ever said. The inanity of the comment is plain, but oh, how true to form it was!
In one sentence she demonstrated a naivete and ignorance we come to expect from her genre, plus an endearing sweetness shown in her concern for endangered species. What more could you ask from sweet, bubbleheaded pop-singer?
Patrick at January 7, 2004 10:30 AM