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roachboy · 03-17-2010, 04:19 AM

i dont think it was planned....it makes no sense, particularly not from the viewpoint of the netanyahu government. but there was a hilarious survey of the israeli press reactions to this in le monde yesterday. bibi is apparently famously maladroit, a master of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by saying the stupid thing at the wrong moment...but there are folk (and you or i may know such folk typically of course at our peril) who can not only be almost counted on to say the wrong thing at the wrong time (almost is the key here because if you could count on it you could control for it...that's what handlers do....uh oh, burt, he's quinching up his face....he's about to say something stupid...kill the microphones now now now.) but who seem to attract fucking up at a machine level, like they bring it out in the systems they interact with. if they come for a holiday dinner, the turkey is cooked to sawdust and the pool filters begin spitting crap into the water. or the ministry of the interior announces all these shiny new illegal settlement initiatives while biden is visiting.

and it's not really their fault--these folk transcend the limits of personal incompetence and somehow tap into The Higher Incompetence. bibi sounds like he's one of those people.
he ran in part on the idea that this was the ""New Bibi" which lead alot of politico-types to say: "please...old bibi...come resuce us from the new bibi."

i'm trying to think of a fictional version of such a character. all that comes to mind is inspector clouseau.
but clouseau never really hurt other people. well, he did, but not entire populations.

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later:
as an example:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157061.html

03-17-2010, 04:19 AM	#16 (permalink)
roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	i dont think it was planned....it makes no sense, particularly not from the viewpoint of the netanyahu government. but there was a hilarious survey of the israeli press reactions to this in le monde yesterday. bibi is apparently famously maladroit, a master of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory by saying the stupid thing at the wrong moment...but there are folk (and you or i may know such folk typically of course at our peril) who can not only be almost counted on to say the wrong thing at the wrong time (almost is the key here because if you could count on it you could control for it...that's what handlers do....uh oh, burt, he's quinching up his face....he's about to say something stupid...kill the microphones now now now.) but who seem to attract fucking up at a machine level, like they bring it out in the systems they interact with. if they come for a holiday dinner, the turkey is cooked to sawdust and the pool filters begin spitting crap into the water. or the ministry of the interior announces all these shiny new illegal settlement initiatives while biden is visiting. and it's not really their fault--these folk transcend the limits of personal incompetence and somehow tap into The Higher Incompetence. bibi sounds like he's one of those people. he ran in part on the idea that this was the ""New Bibi" which lead alot of politico-types to say: "please...old bibi...come resuce us from the new bibi." i'm trying to think of a fictional version of such a character. all that comes to mind is inspector clouseau. but clouseau never really hurt other people. well, he did, but not entire populations. ==== later: as an example: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1157061.html __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 03-17-2010 at 05:49 AM..