Gabbard, Palin, Hitchens
Tulsi Gabbard is the Sarah Palin of Christopher Hitchenses. Or: Tulsi Gabbard is the Christopher Hitchens of Sarah Palins. I can see it both ways.
A metaphor
A runaway train.
Italy’s Sardines
“Organizers say their goal is to stop a far-right, anti-immigrant wave rising in Italian society and politics.”
At the table
“We should continue to focus on kitchen-table pocketbook issues.” That’s boilerplate language.
“The best witches”
From a New York Times editorial : “For a witch hunt, Mr. Mueller’s investigation has already bagged a remarkable number of witches.”
Steroids and stilts
“Trump is Nixon on steroids and stilts”: John Dean (who should know).
Scabs and banjos
Chris Matthews, speaking of Donald Trump on Meet the Press today : “He knows he can find the issues that rip the scab off this cultural divide, and he plays it like a banjo.”
Good cop, bad cop
This metaphor for a Tillerson–Trump North Korea strategy is, let’s say, faulty. And not merely because there is no evidence of a coordinated strategy.
Extending a metaphor
The shit will continue to hit the fan with tiny fecal hands, knocking the fan off the tabletop (it’s a table fan) and making a mess everywhere.
Awkward metaphor of the day
“He’s not going to be a wallflower that’s going to get pushed around.”
Block that metaphor
“They’re trying to find the middle ground where they can straddle this awkward situation.”
Recently updated
Stefan Hagemann deconstructs of a Trump-campaign metaphor.
Spinning and pitching
A dubious three-part metaphor to explain why Donald Trump is now on his third campaign manager.
Awkward metaphor of the day
“She’s straddling both ends of this.”
Sink redux
Kitchen sinks, 2008 and now.
Bad metaphor of the day
“All sides of the political spectrum.”
Cliffs and metaphors
“If the cliff is behind us, doesn’t that mean that we’ve already —”
Block that metaphor
Cliffs and goal posts.
Happy harvest
Mirr Romney, harvesting people. Aiiee.
Kurt Andersen on American politics
Autoimmune disorders and the paranoid style in American politics.
A cow on the tracks
Michael Steele's inept metaphor
Rod Blagojevich, maker of metaphors
He thinks he's Icarus (ugh)
Enough with the sink
"The kitchen sink strategy": a dying metaphor rears its head
Metaphor of the day
June 3 = February 5
Political metaphor of the day
A crash in West Virginia
Bad metaphor of the day
Ed Rendell compares students for Obama to Kool-Aid drinkers
James Carville's metaphors
Just words, right?
Strained political metaphors of the day
Carpetbagging beaver! Drunken horse! Tired as dogs! From Erica Jong : We have two great candidates — one a hard working, never give up eager...
Puzzling political metaphor of the day
About a steamroller
Political tropes of the day
The campaign aides cited in this New York Times article do just fine. But watch the reporter overreach: One aide wearily compared the cam...