Man, can that Garrison Keillor turn a phrase.
Consider his piece in today’s NY Times Op-Ed containing the following:
Here are mobs of flannel-mouthed robots denouncing Socialist Gummint Takeover as Medicare goes rolling along rather tidily and the private schemes resemble railroads of the early 19th century, when each line decided its own gauge and each stationmaster decided what time it is. Anyone who has tried to coax authorization for payment from Federated Amalgamated Health knows that, for incomprehensible standards and voluminous rules and implacable bureaucrats, the health insurance industry carries on where the Italian postal service left off.
“Flannel-mouthed robots denouncing Soclialist Gummint Takeover”. LOL…
August 31st, 2009 at 10:45 pm
This is not “about” health care insurance reform it just uses that subject as a vehicle to talk about our sorry news services.
September 1st, 2009 at 7:03 am
@d hennig: You’re right, of course. But the quote I pulled just struck me as too funny.