Also Sick of "Fire in the Belly": Everybody
My grousing about the "fire in the belly" MSM moron-meme is resonating* around the blogosphere. Michael Bates had talked about it here, and Anwyn linked me in this post. Even Allah admitted I had a point, but he's such a drooling wild-eyed Fredhead fanboy it's hard to take him seriously on the issue.
Ace is tired of FITB and media laziness, and now it seems Patterico has joined in:
Thompson is a guy who has laid out detailed positions on all sorts of issues. He never gets dinged for misrepresenting facts in debates. And I like the fact that he’s not consumed by ambition. That’s exactly the sort of person we should want as president.Perhaps most significantly, the Iowan who asked asked Fred the question that evinced that modest answer has pronounced himself satisfied with Fred's response:But our moronic news media, which pretends to disdain overambitious candidates and to care about policies — doesn’t really care about substance. For them, it’s all about the horse race, the gimmicks, and the pizzazz. Big Media editors are every bit as superficial as you voters, if not more so.
Far from a slick Branson like presentation, he presented himself as a dedicated patriot willing to serve if we, the American people, were willing to have him do so. He refuses to be a President under false pretenses. He is not leading us into a shotgun relationship. He understands that under the founder’s concept of the social contract, both parties must be fully aware of the terms of the contract when entering into the agreement. If the American people do not want him to be President, he is not going to trick us into agreeing to him. As I said, the answer was refreshing. It was a great answer.He gets so many language points for the phrase "slick, Branson-like presentation".
A.M. UPDATE: Jonathan Adler (no surprise, he's on the lawyers for Fred board), some guy in England, and Instapundit himself are humming a great cosmic OMMM on the same FiTB wavelength here.
It's like in Tootsie when Dustin Hoffman tries doing the things he's heard women say they want from men, only to discover that they don't really want those things at all . . .Allah also says he's "tired of the whining", though of course that's just the man-crush talking. Guy's a little sensitive.
* If I were a more complete egomaniac I'd say it was "making waves", but I don't think Ace or Patterico actually read my entry or that I actually caused anything. I'll just take a little credit for an early expression of what people who aren't lazy journalists were thinking.
YET MORE: Not quite "Clark Griswoldesque", but now Fred's feelin' it too. Where's the Tylenol?