One vulture to the other: "If something doesn't die soon, one of us will have to go kill it."
Whoever said that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery is wrOng.
By way of Blob Blogging Wingnut, I discovered that a US apologist for Dr Tiller's public execution has re-purposed the term that DAMMIT JANET! coined in 2008 - Vulture Culture - in support of his own pro-lie, anti-abortion position.
If you're wondering how he came across the expression, a post that I wrote last Sunday Pity the poor abortion criminalizers was reposted here, by the blogger Kansas Jackass.
Robert DeWitt's tactic comes directly from the Karl Rove playbook: if your opponents corner you & you can't find a better, bigger, more powerful comeback, steal theirs and try to use it against them.
Pity the poor fetus fetishists: they have no scruples or imagination.
As God is my witness ... Thank you LuLu. I was jonesing for my next Sa-wah Palin fix and you got it for me. The sheer dumbfuckery of it is awesome to behold.
Those memoirs are gonna be sumtin'.Delicious update: Geoffrey Dunn has scrutinized Palin's speech and makes a good case that most of it has been 'liberally' lifted from an article that Republicans Newt Gingrich and Craig Shirley wrote in 2005: Palin acknowledged that, "Recently, Newt Gingrich, he had written a good article about Reagan...." then she quotes and paraphrases from the article at length with no other attributions. I predict that her speechwriter will get thrown under the bus for what amounts to low-key plagiarism.
