Dark Lord, Secret-Keeper, and Spinners in the news

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Catbird <catbird25 at ...> wrote:
>
> *David Brooks, right-wing columnist for the New York Times and 
house pundit
> on PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, offers his views today (February 
16) on
> news coverage of the Cheney shooting incident:*
> 

> 
> Finally there is the Office of the Vice President, inevitably 
failing to
> surpass expectations. The vice president's role, on this as on all 
days, is
> to treat the press and the Washington community in general as a
> plague-ridden horde, from whom it is possible, upon the merest 
conversation
> or contact, to catch some soul-destroying disease. So, of course, 
*the vice
> president was compelled to recreate his role as Voldemort, Keeper 
of the
> Secrets*.
> 
Describing Lord Voldemort as "Keeper of the Secrets" suggests that 
Brooks is not overly familiar with the Potterverse narrative. Of 
course, describing the author of Bobos in Paradise as "right-wing" 
suggests that one isn't overly familiar with David Brooks.

   - CMC