winterbadger | former Texas lt. governor ashamed, apologetic

You're viewing

winterbadger's journal
Create a Dreamwidth Account Learn More

Reload page in style: site light

winterbadger

garked from

motherall

In a video originally posted on the Web by a pro-Kerry organization in Austin, Texas, Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas, apologized for his role in getting a young George W. Bush into the Texas Air National Guard while young men who were not from prominent or wealthy families "died in Vietnam."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/barnes/index.html

While the press apparently takes a pass

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/30/barnes_update/index.html

(not entirely true: the WaPo ran a wire service story on Sunday: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42628-2004Aug28.html But, yes, it's not the same as the coverage of the SBVFT slanders.)

Current Mood: cranky

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

motherwell.livejournal.com

Heck, I didn't even know it was a word! :-)

From:

winterbadger

I garked it from

perigee. ;-)

From:

motherwell.livejournal.com

Better garked than zarked, I guess..

From:

winterbadger

..certainly better than being ganched...

From:

motherwell.livejournal.com

And how painful is it to be "ganched?" And, if you answer that question, will I regret asking it?

From:

winterbadger

The common definition seems to be:

ganch -
1. \Ganch\, v. t. [Cf. F. ganche, n., also Sp. & Pg. gancho
hook, It. gancio.]
To drop from a high place upon sharp stakes or hooks, as the
Turks dropped malefactors, by way of punishment.

Ganching, which is to let fall from on high upon hooks,
and there to hang until they die. --Sandys.

The version that I remember first coming across in literature was more specific in its refernce to hooks, but...

From:

motherwell.livejournal.com

EEWWW, gross! Neal Stephenson mentioned this punishment in "Confusion." I guess it's a bit of a gamble how quickly the victim dies.

From:

winterbadger

Those Turks, so ingenious when it comes to inventing punishments; you'd think there must be some CHinese in them somewhere...

From:

motherwell.livejournal.com

I suspect the Chinese would keep such things behind closed doors; none of that crass, obscenely public, throwing people from a great height outdoors stuff.

From:

robbysmom.livejournal.com

Great "gark." :-)

Tjis was covered by the of course "notoriously liberal" NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/28/politics/campaign/28barnes.html
but buried in the friday news hole.

and CBS in NY aired it on the weekend, this woudl suggest.
http://cbsnewyork.com/topstories/topstories_story_241192942.html

I haven't seen it mentioned by talkign heads during the casble or PBS coverage, but, too, I have to say, I'm so bored by most of it, I've slept through most of the prime time speeches.

From:

winterbadger

There've been a feew other short mentions of it in the Post, included the political round-up pointing out that Scott McClellan pooh-pohed it as just the actiosn of a Democractic politico, whereupon the Post commentator pointed out that Barnes had gone out of his way to lend support to a Republican politician in TX, who BTW is Scott McClellan's mother ;-)

From:

robbysmom.livejournal.com

yeah, McClellan's mother who tried to defund the Unitarians. The TX state gov't barely functions, if my favorite political writer, Molly Ivins, is to be beleived.