Just how much trouble is the Romney/Ryan ticket actually in? This much:
Though Ryan had already decided to distance himself from the floundering Romney campaign, he now feels totally uninhibited. Reportedly, he has been marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, “If Stench calls, take a message” and “Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.”
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Dan Senor, one of Romney’s closest advisers, has kept a tight grip on Ryan, traveling with him everywhere and making sure he hews to the directions of the Romney “brain trust” in Boston. (A brain trust, rumor has it, that refers to Ryan as “Gilligan.”)
Do they actually want to win? Maybe they dislike each other so much that they don’t care if they do.
that the Politico column “reporting” that Ryan refers to Romney as “Stench” is a satire.
Pull my other leg for a while.
That’s what I get for following a tale back to its source, and in my excitement, not noticing that it’s the only source.
And people really do hate PowerPoint a lot, Mr. Simon. Next time, please put a note somewhere that actually uses the word ‘satire.’
an a$$hole. Does he have any idea how many people are going to believe and continue to believe the story?
If there can be “Birthers”, then there can be “Stenchers”. I want this to be true, regardless. I will wait until after the post election analysis, to see if there was any truth to this.
is “the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices.” Is there a target Roger Simon had in mind? Is there something to be corrected. As a satire, it’s a failure. It is, at best, a prank.
He references Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, which was a serious satire about the English treatment of the Irish. Swift would have expected his readers to read the whole thing. He doesn’t really give it away until the second page. I came across the column on Raw Story, which, like many sites, had picked up the story. I’m not sure an internet news site where entire articles are rarely read is the best place to try a satire, but this column amounts to journalistic malpractice.