Word: angered
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...practicing his Lieberman talking points. In a sweeping attack on Joe’s opponents, we are reminded that “You may not always agree with him/But you’ll know just where he stands.” The song even plays off of the lingering anger from December of 2000, with a resentful “He’d be in the White House now/If it weren’t for all those chads...
...make politics less about issues than tactics. They're long on ad hominem and short on substance. They're less interested in convincing anyone--though Moore offers a limp chapter, "How to Talk to Your Conservative Brother-in-Law"--than in whipping up their own berserkers. At heart, the anger business is show business, which is why it's been so kind to comics like Franken and showmen like Limbaugh. "What you have," says Publishers Weekly editor Steven Zeitchik, "is the marrying of the interest in political books with the culture of celebrity." Even the noncomedians in the bunch...
This American cacophony is not unprecedented--see Father Charles Coughlin in the '30s, or the partisan free-for-all of the early Republic. Nor is it all bad. Politics has always been a mud fight--better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest. And even the anger industry sometimes recognizes such a thing as going too far. MSNBC fired aptly named right-wing host Michael Savage this year after he told a gay caller, "You should only get AIDS...
...they sometimes mix/but black girls only want your money 'cause they're dumb chicks" are some of the milder lyrics on the tape. Responding to charges of racism, Eminem issued a statement saying the song was recorded after he broke up with a black girlfriend and "made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager." Hey, man, some of us just kicked our lockers...
...expectation is that the anger will not be easily set to rest,” one council member said, noting that science professors and staff make up more than half of the total faculty. “This will not die down in the next month...