Guy’s Guys
Timothy Egan, NYT
JAN. 16, 2014
People love a man who tells it straight, the authentic stand-up guy who doesn’t have to let you know he’s that guy. Harry Truman, despite looking like the bank auditor from Bedford Falls, was that guy, and earned his nickname — Give ‘Em Hell, Harry.
John McCain of the early 2000s, the pre-grumpy, un-embittered, even-kind-of-vulnerable John McCain, was that guy. But then he gave the nation Sarah Palin, and you knew he was no longer that guy because you couldn’t say the words “President Palin” and call it straight talk.
Chris Christie is not that guy. You may have heard Brit Hume, that is, Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume of Fox News, refer to Governor Christie’s problem. It’s not that he’s arrogant, paranoid, testy, bullying or too blunt for the P.C. culture. It’s just that he’s an “old fashioned guy’s guy” in a “feminized” world — an endangered species adrift on a floe of mush.
(More here.)
JAN. 16, 2014
People love a man who tells it straight, the authentic stand-up guy who doesn’t have to let you know he’s that guy. Harry Truman, despite looking like the bank auditor from Bedford Falls, was that guy, and earned his nickname — Give ‘Em Hell, Harry.
John McCain of the early 2000s, the pre-grumpy, un-embittered, even-kind-of-vulnerable John McCain, was that guy. But then he gave the nation Sarah Palin, and you knew he was no longer that guy because you couldn’t say the words “President Palin” and call it straight talk.
Chris Christie is not that guy. You may have heard Brit Hume, that is, Senior Political Analyst Brit Hume of Fox News, refer to Governor Christie’s problem. It’s not that he’s arrogant, paranoid, testy, bullying or too blunt for the P.C. culture. It’s just that he’s an “old fashioned guy’s guy” in a “feminized” world — an endangered species adrift on a floe of mush.
(More here.)
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1 Comments:
It seems to be hard to please the left side of the aisle folks. First, Bush was too much of a man, he was a cowboy! Gasp! Now, Christie is not a guy's guy. Gasp! I smell fear in the Hillary camp. Perhaps the bridge scandal is all part of a vast right wing conspiracy.
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