Hell looks an awful lot like the Republican convention

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There are many horrible ways of inflicting pain on oneself, but this has got to be one of the worst. You get agitated and then worried that you're getting all those side-effects that you're warned about on those American commercials for prescription drugs -- headache, nausea and hypertension. Your stomach churns, you turn numb. You learn that Vice-President Dick Cheney is now America's granddad.

The tactical point of this Republican convention is to show the allegedly "compassionate" side of the Republicans. It's working. What makes a viewer particularly nauseous is watching the television media roll over to have its tummy rubbed by Republicans.

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Then on MSNBC, a fella named Joe Scarborough was relishing the opportunity to interview Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff. In fact, he was so keen to confront Card that he took the opportunity to josh with him about the Boston Red Sox. That's where the nausea set in.

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It's not the smugness and the sanctimonious speakers who get to you. It's not even the frump-with-a-facelift aesthetic that you observe in the crowd. It's the meekness of the American media.

...who looked like they crawled straight out of Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights.

They gave me the creeps.

transplants... that's why they give you the creeps. :evilgrin: