Ordinarily, I dislike Burt Prelutsky
May. 5th, 2008 07:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fpbHe is an elderly columnist and former Hollywood scriptwriter who seems to me to be the classic instance of a man who has changed his political opinions without learning to think, but only picked up another set of stereotypes.
However, one does not handle the English language for a living for half a century without learning a thing or two about it. Read the following passage (about the Los Angeles Times) and tell me whether it is not the perfect squelch, worthy of Oscar Wilde or Mark Twain:
I wouldn’t want to give you the idea that my hometown newspaper is entirely heartless when it comes to right-wingers. In fact, just recently, I had occasion to write the following letter to the editor: “First it was William F. Buckley who got a terrific, extremely respectful, front page sendoff. Today, it was Charlton Heston’s turn. Clearly, all a conservative has to do in order to get his just deserts from the L.A. Times is to die on a slow news day."
However, one does not handle the English language for a living for half a century without learning a thing or two about it. Read the following passage (about the Los Angeles Times) and tell me whether it is not the perfect squelch, worthy of Oscar Wilde or Mark Twain:
I wouldn’t want to give you the idea that my hometown newspaper is entirely heartless when it comes to right-wingers. In fact, just recently, I had occasion to write the following letter to the editor: “First it was William F. Buckley who got a terrific, extremely respectful, front page sendoff. Today, it was Charlton Heston’s turn. Clearly, all a conservative has to do in order to get his just deserts from the L.A. Times is to die on a slow news day."
