[Ads-l] Yet another QOTY candidate (or two), from the usual suspect

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Oct 26 02:27:33 UTC 2019


 > And after the same tweeter’s earlier observation (October 22) that he’s
a victim of a lynching, we had Sen.       > Lindsey Graham’s concurrence:
 > “So this is _a lynching, in every sense_.”
 >
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/10/22/lindsey-graham-lynching-response-trump-vpx.cnn

Except in the literal sense, of course, unfortunately.

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 4:09 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> On Ambassador William Taylor, Vietnam veteran and lifetime foreign service
> officer, appointee of Presidents Reagan and G. W. Bush and more recently
> Secretary of State Pompeo:
>
> “The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left,
> are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do
> Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!”
> Tweet, 1:48 p.m., October 23
>
> And after the same tweeter’s earlier observation (October 22) that he’s a
> victim of a lynching, we had Sen. Lindsey Graham’s concurrence:
> “So this is a lynching, in every sense”
>
> https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/10/22/lindsey-graham-lynching-response-trump-vpx.cnn
>
> An embarrassment of riches, or an embarrassment anyway.
>
> LH
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