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June 23, 2012
"It was only a matter of time before a fake memoirist got elected as president of the United States. "
In an inspired line of argument, Ben Smith of the website BuzzFeed suggests that the controversy over "Dreams From My Father" is the fault of conservatives who have "taken the self-portrait at face value."We are so unlettered and hicky that we think a memoir is about stuff that actually happened rather than a literary jeu d'esprit playing with nuances of notions of assumptions of preconceptions of concoctions of invented baloney. And so we regard the first member of the Invented-American community to make it to the White House as a kinda weird development rather than an encouraging sign of how a new post-racial, post-gender, post-modern America is moving beyond the old straitjackets of black and white, male and female, gay and straight, real and hallucinatory. -- Mark Steyn: Obama the first Invented-American president
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 23, 2012 10:23 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Ah. So, "fake memoirist" is the acceptable term for "lying sack of sh*t" in polite conversation.
Thanks -- I was wondering.
Posted by: BillT at June 24, 2012 12:52 AM