Word: groaning
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...then presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to a billowing, giant pantsuit. O'Reilly talked about the ACLU's filing for CIA documents under FOIA. ("You know, they basically want to tell the enemy about everything we do," he says.) Mere mention of the ACLU pumped up hecklers - a collective groan was spiced with a man calling out, "F___ them...
...about them makes it all sound just a little too easy, as if she thinks she'll be able to breeze into Sacramento and simply decree that the government be run more efficiently. This last point seems to particularly irk members of the political chattering classes, some of whom groan or sigh when you mention Whitman's name...
Have the writers been throwing a lot more of these lately, or did we just never really get them until now? This week it was “cash for clunkers.” Groan...
...real thing about Safire, though, was not whether his columns made sense. It was that the man could write. At their best, which was often - he had a great hit rate - Safire columns were just tremendously good fun, full of wordplay, some of it groan-inducing, much of it sheer enjoyment. That is depressingly rare. Not for Safire the cloddish metaphors, arch constructions, one-sentence paragraphs and dreary wonkery that are the stock in trade of too many modern American columnists. He was of that generation of inky-fingered wretches who remember that it isn't a sin for journalism...
...course, it already has. We know for sure once the first eerie beam of evening light spills over the TV set and onto the empty coffeepot. After the last of the final credits, a new series of events will snap into motion: sleeping bodies will stir and start to groan, they’ll start waiting in lines for showers and listlessly offering to help clean up. Then we’ll have to start negotiating the gridlock of cars in the driveway; people will exchange phone numbers, the right ones or made-up ones; the snow will start...