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James Waldby - jwpat7
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The phrase “Is what’s good for the Heinz not good for the Gorka?” appeared in an op-ed article by Charles Krauthammer, apparently printed in The Washington Post newspaper on 2 August 2012. Mark Halperin’s tweet-length comment on that article calls Krauthammer’s phrase “a sentence never before rendered in English or any other known human language”.

Halperin’s remark probably is true, but only because no previous circumstances have called for a comparison like Krauthammer’s of Gorka and T. H. Kerry. Few if any Americans will regard Halperin’s judgement of the phrase as weighty or significant, which is just as well because Halperin probably intended to be amusing rather than weighty or significant. Neither of the phrases quoted above is significant, terrible, or historic; both appear to be true, nearly indisputable, not controversial, and not of lasting interest.

James Waldby - jwpat7
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