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Demonbird
11/09/08

In reply to Neocon Can't Stand Democratic Hissing
Well, it wasn't exactly hissing I suppose, but I walked into my political science class after the election with another friend, who was a republican as well, and we were taunted and ridiculed for the following 5 minutes before we decided to just leave. Not very pleasant.
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skahammer
11/09/08

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When your first compliment of a critic is that he's "opinionated," though, isn't that kind of like describing an ocean as being "wet"?
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La Cieca
11/09/08

@skahammer: Well, yes, in the sense of "who wants a dry ocean?"
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La Cieca
11/09/08

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Nordlinger is a colleague of mine (in the sense that we're in the same business) and he is a very fine music critic. He's opinionated about what he likes and what he doesn't like, and he expresses those opinions in a distinctively witty and literate way. In his musical writings he seems to be very careful not to indulge in the fallacy that is apparent in the piece quoted here, which is to assign motives to an audience's reactions.

An audience, whether for La traviata or for the trailer for W is a mysterious multi-headed beast whose behavior is unpredictable and occult. About all you can say is that hissing (or, in the opera house, outright booing) means that someone in the audience isn't happy with what he's seeing, and is so worked up he wants to sound off.

It does seem a little disingenuous to select a locale like the UWS where liberals are vastly in the majority and to extrapolate the behavior witnessed there to the Liberal Mind in general. I am sure that if Nordlinger dropped in at a cinema in, say, suburban Houston when a trailer for a new Michael Moore film hit the screen, he might change his mind about how polite and accepting conservative audiences are.
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Alex Carnevale
11/09/08

@La Cieca:

Oh, I agree. He's an excellent music critic.
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Meg
11/09/08

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Wow! Way to throw a hissy fit, Jay.
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Dagrolord
11/09/08

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Wait until our irreverent young get a hold of Jay Nordlinger's obvious aversion to hissing. They'll stock any Nordlinger speaking engagement with a group of professional-level flatulists, who'll punctuate Nordlinger's more rabid anti-liberal screeds with a somewhat more noxious release of air.

At least Nordlinger won't start out as a laughing stock. That comes seconds later.
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Meg
11/09/08

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What a bunch of hissterical liberals!
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Dagrolord
11/09/08

@Meg: Ha.

I hope you feel better now.
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Meg
11/09/08

@Dagrolord: Heh. Yes, I'll shut up, now. See? Sealed with a hiss.
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Dagrolord
11/09/08

@Meg: I'm totally joshing.

I had to float my own similar remark elsewhere.
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Meg
11/09/08

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These half-assed hissers are obviously not liberals. We would never be so booless!
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Weegee's bored
11/09/08

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This hisses me off.
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Dagrolord
11/09/08

@Weegee's bored:

Nordlinger can hiss off his career as a public speaker for a while.
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Meg
11/09/08

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Hissing? How catty!
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Private Hangnail
11/09/08

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I'm glad he could sense this woman's political and social ideology from the tone of a non-verbal utterance.
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Weegee's bored
11/09/08

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Damn liberal pervs are terrorfissssting again!
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LucilleMcGillicuddy
11/09/08

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Yes, ssssssssss is awful compared to "Kill 'em", "Terrorist" and all

incisive political commentary offered up by

GOP boosters.

Finally, I can say,

SSSSSSSSSSSSTFU
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Weegee's bored
11/09/08

@LucilleMcGillicuddy:

Terrorhissing!
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Weegee's bored
11/09/08

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A friend named his cat "Pssst c'mere." He was liberal.
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number six
11/09/08

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He is right about song recitals, though -- folks get all up in your business when you don't have an over-arching "theme". Like, seriously, there's only so much Barber one can handle at one time (hah).
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Xylo
11/09/08

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I've never heard anything so bizarre in my life. Hissing? Really? I've stood at the back of a lousy music performance and yelled "Play what you know!!", I've soundly booed speakers with whom I disagree, I've been in political discussion "lectures" where I've fought my way to the microphone and demanded that someone stop lying, but I've never hissed. Whattadope.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
11/09/08

@Xylo: At the beginning of the year, my political science class hissed at a Conservative senior politician in Parliament who was a guest speaker. He was asked who he endorsed in the US elections, and he said he thought John McCain was best for NZ... My university is notoriously liberal and politically minded; it was a poor choice of words in an election year.
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