THANKFULLY THE TIMES STYLEBOOK SUBSTITUTED A G FOR THE APOSTROPHE:

The Shuffle President (MATT BAI, 7/16/09, NY Times)

Obama is the nation’s first shuffle president. He’s telling lots of stories at once, and in no particular order. His agenda is fully downloadable. If what you care most about is health care, then you can jump right to that. If global warming gets you going, then click over there. It’s not especially realistic to imagine that politics could cling to a linear way of rendering stories while the rest of American culture adapts to a more customized form of consumption. Obama’s ethos may disconcert the older guard in Washington, but it’s probably comforting to a lot of younger voters who could never be expected to listen to successive tracks, in the same order, over and over again.

In a climate where niggardly is considered a racial slur, imagine if a conservative invoked the term shuffle president in regards to the UR?

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 17, 2009 4:11 PM