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The Spectacle Blog
With former President George H.W. Bush’s health taking a turn for the worse, Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News paid the 41st President the sort of compliment one would expect from an Upper West Side liberal:
Everybody in this country ought to respect the man known as Bush 41, now more than ever. It’s not that he was a great President - he wasn’t, though he was so much better than his own son - but he has led such a great American life.
Translation: You’re a schmuck, but not as a big a schmuck as your son. Now that you have been out of office for nearly 25 years and are nearing the end of your life, it turns out you’re not such a bad guy after all.
There really is no place for him in the current Republican Party. Bush the elder isn’t nearly mean or stubborn enough. He is too much of a gentleman, possesses too much of a quality almost gone from modern politics, both sides, a quality called grace.
That would be the current Republican Party that has nominated John McCain and Mitt Romney in the last two election cycles and might very well nominate Jeb Bush in 2016.
Of course, Lupica makes it clear he didn’t think Bush 41 was much of a gentleman when he let Lee Atwater sick Willie Horton on Michael Dukakis or when he appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
But, you see, Lupica thinks Bush has “grown in stature” since he left the White House.
Translation: Bush no longer talks like a Republican or, heaven forbid, like a conservative.
I should note that in February 2011, I took Lupica to task for berating Sarah Palin after she expressed her concerns about The Arab Spring in Egypt. Lupica wrote, “She also questions the motives of the people in the street, the ones whose courage will make Egypt a better place when this is all over, whoever is in charge next month, or next fall.”
Well, it turned out Palin’s concerns (and those of many others) were well founded. Egypt is not a better place today. Mohamed Morsi is in charge and is ruling the country by decree.
With this in mind, the words of Mike Lupica should be taken (if Nanny Bloomberg permits) with a grain of salt.
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Iacta alea est| 12.1.12 @ 7:18PM
Lupica puts the "d" in d-bag. And it has been ever thus. He likes to write as if he's the defining voice of what New York and it's sports teams are all about. But he's a total fraud. He wasn't born here, wasn't raised here, didn't go to school here. He made his career here, and even then mostly in Manhattan. He's a product of the "Pauline Kael" mindset. He only gets to write about politics because he probably threatened Mort Zuckerman with holding his breath until he turned blue if Mort didn't let him. In junior high he was a hall monitor, in high school the kid who always wound up with "atomic balm" in his jock. He's a punk.
Frederick Giannini| 12.1.12 @ 7:28PM
Lupica wants to move up in the world, from "America's most obnoxious sports columnist" to "America's most obnoxious columnist of any kind."
Occam's Tool| 12.1.12 @ 11:12PM
Conservatives should all get the great Allen Drury's "Come Nineveh, Come Tyre," and read it.
The next time we go into a POTUS election, there will be nothing to low to strike with. "Willie Horton" was a great move, and there was more than enough about with barack. "Cop Killer's Friend" is a very, very accurate portrayal, and Mitt didn't want to win this one bad enough. Next time, we go filthy dirty from round one, no holds barred.
Occam's Tool| 12.3.12 @ 1:53PM
Sorry, had a Jack moment. "Nothing Too Low."
Next time, we hire PIs to go looking and we publicize widely.
ejp| 12.2.12 @ 12:43AM
Mike Lupica is the Keithie Boy Olbermann of print. That is to say, he is a gutless little weasel who loves to indulge in hate-filled screeds and is a prima donna of the first order who uses bullying and intimidation to get his way whenever he wants it. And like Keithie Boy, he NEVER tolerates criticism. At the Daily News, he refuses to allow readers to offer comments on what he writes even though this is SOP for all other columnists. And this weasel who would never hesitate to denounce George Steinbrenner as evil and greedy, is himself the man who in the past jumped ship from the Daily News to the defunct "The National" and then again to Newsday for more money but then came crawling back when he realized his audience was down.
Like Olbermann, Lupica represents that smug sanctimonious leftist who pollutes the sports section with his diatribes and evidently thinks sports fans share his wacko political beliefs. Then, deciding his ego dictates being given a forum to comment on "serious" issues, he gets to write political stuff that only reveals what a shallow ignoramus he is on everything.
And like Keith Olbermann, Lupica could bathe in tomato juice for days on end and still come out smelling like a total skunk.
Bob K| 12.2.12 @ 2:56AM
Lupica was a lousy sportswriter too but at least he got noticed when he was one. I'd forgotten he existed since then. Why are you giving him publicity now Aaron?
JimH| 12.2.12 @ 7:38AM
Lupica, like Aaron are both conflicted as to whether to be political or sports writers. The one sports writer who made an impact on me years ago with his political commentary was Dick Young of the NY Daily News.
stephen didovich| 12.2.12 @ 7:53AM
mike lupicas political columns are unreadable
Iacta alea est| 12.2.12 @ 10:29AM
You may or may not remember, but Dick Young had no love for Lupica (who was fairly new to the Daily News) at the time. If I recall correctly they clashed big time during the weeks leading up to the Mets' trade of Tom Seaver.
Bob Grant| 12.2.12 @ 11:15AM
Lupica and his ilk just loooove republicans who've either lost elections or are out of power.
Trust me, when the time is right even the HATED George W Bush will be highly regarded and considered out of step with the current republican party.
If anything, they're consistent.
Crassus| 12.3.12 @ 9:35AM
Lupica is bad but he's not Homo Skip Bayliss bad. Be glad that Homo Skip is still in sports "journalism" and not writing political columns.
Tom Kyba| 12.3.12 @ 12:12PM
I think you're all being too nice to the little eunich. The ultimate pretentious fop.
Cpm| 12.3.12 @ 3:04PM
Then there's Lupica, a hack sportswriter who can't even get that right. What a pathetic excuse for a human being.