They just don't write 'em like this any more.
http://snipurl.com/gztg"black-hearted philistine"
"psychopathological traitor"
"sycophantic aggressor"
"half-baked bloodsucker"
"bourgeois hooligan"
"extra-large human scum"
http://www.nk-news.net/index.php
"nk-news" Thought I'd started a blog and didn't remember it!
Sounds like they developed their own lists for exquisite corpse.
I remember when the Soviet Union was the world's greatest generator of the political invective phrase. That "glory" has long since passed but it appears that the North Koreans are carrying on the tradition.
> I remember when the Soviet Union was the world's greatest generator of the political invective phrase.
What a charmingly parochial attitude. I notice the website lists propagandistic phraseology against the 'Axis of Evil' member and Kim Jong II used in the texts. There certianly more of that around, though it is admittedly usually more worn, more worrying, less funny and less inventive than say 'half-baked bloodsucker'.
Who better than a parish priest to be parochial?
And, on the other side of the political spectrum, who remembers "Nattering nabobs of negativism"?
>I remember when the Soviet Union was the world's greatest generator of the political invective phrase.
I respectfully disagree. As a teen, I read a dozen or more of Kim Il Sung's works, all featuring his "juche" ideology, and he was undoubtedly the master. His stuff had me literally LOL many many times. I would not say "the North Koreans are carrying on the tradition", because it seems to me that the son does not have the gift for it that his father did. The good thing about this site is that it includes much of the late Beloved Leader's work, not just the second-rate imitations of the current incumbent.
who remembers "Nattering nabobs of negativism"?
The one I liked was "Cassandras of the Senate" as though that were a slur against the doom-sayers.
"To some extent, if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all" (Spiro Agnew)