mountebankery

[Joel S. Berson]

I am awaiting the sequel to "The Count of Monte Crisco", titled "The
Count of Mountebakery".

Joel

At 5/23/2012 04:53 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>Nothing new or extraordinary here, but this just seems to be one of
>those words that makes a comeback once in a decade, particularly when
>one wants to sound literate.
>
>http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/300432
>>That Republicans have let Democrats get away with this mountebankery
>>is a symptom of their political fecklessness, and in letting them get
>>away with it the GOP has allowed itself to be cut off rhetorically
>>from a pantheon of Republican political heroes, from Abraham Lincoln
>>and Frederick Douglass to Susan B. Anthony, who represent an
>>expression of conservative ideals as true and relevant today as it was
>>in the 19th century.
>
>Quacks and snake oil vendors were not available for comment.
>
>     VS-)
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