FireDogLake’s Swopa, for this:
John McCain Orders Up an Acme Self-Hoisting Petard
With all the shakeups since he entered the presidential race, it’s been hard to know who’s running John McCain’s campaign… but I’m gradually becoming convinced that it’s Wile E. Coyote.
The whole thing is good, and calls attention to a new Obama campaign-related web site: Low Road Express. The conventional wisdom used to be that the fact-checking approach to fighting smears was useless because it lends credence to them, but the internet’s the perfect medium to reverse that concept; if any campaign can do it, it looks like being Obama’s.
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Love the bit about fighting smears, but must you promote Swopa’s inaccurate understanding of the expression “hoisted by your own petard?”
It’s McCain that’ll be hoisted, not the petard, so a self-hoisting petard doesn’t make any sense; unless “self” appears here as an awkward way of saying “person,” akin to the “self” in “self help” and different from the “self” in “self-cleaning ovens,” which is exactly what a “self-hoisting” petard sounds like.
Oh, and dear people of Pandagon, if you encounter the ubiquitous (and dreadful) “hoisted ON his own petard,” please, for the love of all that is right with the world, beat the speaker to death. Preferably with their own shoes.