RoverPundit

Best. Analogy. Ever.

Found this on Metafilter. Replace "War Criminal" with "racist", "misogynist", "warmonger", or any of the lefty smears we hear so often, and the meaning carries through clearly.

"War Criminal" is one of those phrases that's like a sock full of gravel with a hole in the toe: the first time you whack somebody with it it has a hell of a punch, but every whack makes the hole get bigger so more gravel leaks out (and pings people standing around on all sides), until finally you're just flailing away at someone with a sock. I'd really like it if, when we find some political tool like this, we could save it for when we really need it.

Also, it's getting hard to see what's going on for all the sock-waving.

posted by hob at 12:35 PM PST on March 27

Bravo.