Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

Alexander Cockburn

Tags: politics united-states rhetoric funerals sarah-palin bickering republican-party-united-states 2011 2011-tuscon-shooting tea-party-movement



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Regulation of sexual behavior
is the preferred route to wider social
control.

Alexander Cockburn

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No foundation that I am aware of has hired ex-journalists to promote a thoroughgoing inquiry.

Alexander Cockburn

Tags: politics journalism



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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Alexander Cockburn

Tags: philosophy despair journalism gossip treachery



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