"rerun of a bad movie"

[Jonathan Lighter]

YBQ credits George W. Bush with having compared the alleged machinations
of Saddam Hussein as "a rerun of a bad movie."

He may have been the first to apply the words to Iraq, but GB turns up more
than fifty earlier exx. of the metaphor.

Earliest and most notable is from NYT journalist Harrison Salisbury's _Orbit
of China_ (N.Y.: Harper, 1967), p. 177: "[T]he clamping down on sources of
conflicting opinion; the closing of windows through which a clear view of
the real world could be obtained, what was happening in China seemed like
the rerun of a bad movie."

JL:




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