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Title : "Biden seems bright, tough and bold. Also very, very scary. One might even say terrifying. He has Rod Serling's upper lip..."
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"Biden seems bright, tough and bold. Also very, very scary. One might even say terrifying. He has Rod Serling's upper lip..."
"... which is no shortcoming, but suggests maybe he should only be president of the Twilight Zone.... The candidate appears to be overadvised and suffering from excessive consultitis. Worse, he comes across on TV as someone whose fuse is always lit. Unless we ditch television for the remainder of the campaign, Biden will never be president...."Wrote Tom Shales in a July 3, 1987 Washington Post piece called "The Diverting Democrats."
I'm reading that today because I was rereading parts of Richard Ben Cramer's book, "What It Takes" (commission earned). We were talking about plagiarism and trying to remember the details of Biden's problem internalizing the rhetoric of Neil Kinnock, and I knew the answer was in that book.
From the book, right before the quotation of Shales: "Biden seemed barely there. He never made a dent, couldn’t seem to connect.... [He] looked like he’d dropped in from outer space.... On stage, his answers wandered, they went nowhere. His smile would jump up in the middle of a sentence, as if he’d thought of something funny but didn’t mean to share it."
I should note that Tom Shales died recently: "Tom Shales, Pulitzer-winning TV critic of fine-tuned wit, dies at 79/He spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive and barbed commentary" (WaPo).
"Consultitis" is a pretty good coinage. It's like tonsillitis. But I don't think it caught on. Maybe the consultants insured that it didn't. Who wants to be regarded as a disease?
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"... which is no shortcoming, but suggests maybe he should only be president of the Twilight Zone.... The candidate appears to be overadvised and suffering from excessive consultitis. Worse, he comes across on TV as someone whose fuse is always lit. Unless we ditch television for the remainder of the campaign, Biden will never be president...."
Wrote Tom Shales in a July 3, 1987 Washington Post piece called "The Diverting Democrats."
I'm reading that today because I was rereading parts of Richard Ben Cramer's book, "What It Takes" (commission earned). We were talking about plagiarism and trying to remember the details of Biden's problem internalizing the rhetoric of Neil Kinnock, and I knew the answer was in that book.
From the book, right before the quotation of Shales: "Biden seemed barely there. He never made a dent, couldn’t seem to connect.... [He] looked like he’d dropped in from outer space.... On stage, his answers wandered, they went nowhere. His smile would jump up in the middle of a sentence, as if he’d thought of something funny but didn’t mean to share it."
I should note that Tom Shales died recently: "Tom Shales, Pulitzer-winning TV critic of fine-tuned wit, dies at 79/He spent nearly 40 years writing for The Washington Post and was known for his incisive and barbed commentary" (WaPo).
"Consultitis" is a pretty good coinage. It's like tonsillitis. But I don't think it caught on. Maybe the consultants insured that it didn't. Who wants to be regarded as a disease?
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