I don't know what's more embarrassing about this passage from Jeffrey Goldberg's New Yorker article -- the fact that Goldberg and Lieberman independently paid to see Behind Enemy Lines or the fact that Lieberman actually cheers during crappy Hollywood blockbusters:
Lieberman likes expressions of American power. A few years ago, I was in a movie theatre in Washington when I noticed Lieberman and his wife, Hadassah, a few seats down. The film was "Behind Enemy Lines," in which Owen Wilson plays a U.S. pilot shot down in Bosnia. Whenever the American military scored an onscreen hit, Lieberman pumped his first and said, "Yeah!" and "All right!"
PS: Goldberg shares Lieberman's hawkish tendencies, but he does get one particularly nice shot in at the sanctimonious posturing of the "independent Democrat":
Three days after the hearing, I went to see Lieberman in his office. He was cheerful and easygoing and more convinced than usual of the essential rightness of his vision" (my italics).
I don't know what is more embarrassing, describing Lieberman as a cheeseball or deleting my previous comment for no good reason. What is the deal with you guys? Is your comment section so full you can't take more or can you just not take a little colorfull language ( no dirty words were used ). An explanation would be nice.
Posted by: Paul XQ | February 12, 2007 at 05:09 PM
The comment consisted of inflammatory language and name-calling, so I deleted it per my policy.
Posted by: Brendan Nyhan | February 12, 2007 at 05:19 PM