Word: jingoist
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This past week, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) unabashedly joined the jingoist wing of his party. Supplementing his earlier support for Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070, “The Maverick” launched a television advertisement shamelessly catering to militarists. In the video, McCain, accompanied by a local sheriff, argues that if we swell the ranks of the U.S. Border Patrol with 3,000 new agents, deploy the National Guard, and complete the 700 miles of “danged fence” between the U.S. and Mexico, trafficking, trespassing, and murder...
Recently, right-wing candidates seem to have learned their lessons, borrowing songs with more thoroughbred jingoist credentials for their theme music. Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” playing sporadically during the 1984 Republican National Convention, and interminably after Sept. 11, is a prime example...
...when the country was at war, there was Berlin banging the drum at the head of the parade. He had often used military metaphors to invigorate his lyrics - remember that Alexander's bugle call was "So natural that you want to go to war" - and thus was primed with jingoist jingles when America did go to war. In 1917, Berlin scored with "For Your Country and My Country," "I?m Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind," "Let?s All Be Americans Now? and a mother?s fond lament about her wayward soldier son, "They Were...
...minimum number of people who had to die in airline crashes in different countries before the crash became newsworthy . . . One hundred Czechs were equal to 43 Frenchmen, and the Paraguayans were at the bottom." Such bias seems widespread. Fleet Street reporters have traditionally voiced, in a blatantly racist and jingoist phrase, the equivalence of "1,000 Wogs, 50 Frogs and one Briton...
While not conceding for a minute that the male jingoist Ralph might be a vehicle for his own views, Leo admits that the original Wanda was a bit wan, serving as a foil for her splenetic spouse. "The characters have developed over the years," says their creator. "It used to be Ralph the triumphant curmudgeon teasing Wanda the trendy feminist. But Wanda has become a lot smarter. For one thing, the column worked better that way. Each of them could express sharper opinions and then get corrected or put down or yelled at by the other. Also...