If Irony Weren’t Already Dead, This Would Have Killed It

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by hilzoy

From USA Today:

“Rep. Tom DeLay fired back at Democrats raising ethics questions about him, telling a crowd of conservative activists that the GOP’s opponents have no ideas and “no class.” “

Praise from the master is praise indeed.

6 thoughts on “If Irony Weren’t Already Dead, This Would Have Killed It”

  1. I heard the NPR report this morning about the DeLay dinner here in DC. They played a few bars of a guitar player at the dinner singing Pete Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer”, complete with “I’d hammer out love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land” — but perhaps “hammer out” means something different to that audience.

  2. Well, he could be talking about Reid and his speech to a bunch of high school students.
    That would seem a fairly justified comment.

  4. KCinDC, yes, I heard it too. Did you notice that it’s “the Hammer of Freedom, Hammer of Love … ?” (a slight change from the original lyric).
    My favorite line about Tom DeLay is from Ronnie Earle:

    “Being called partisan and vindictive by Tom DeLay,” Earle told the Houston Chronicle, “is like being called ugly by a frog.”

    A bit unkind to frogs, perhaps.

  5. Thanks, ral, I’d missed the changes. I’ve just listened to the NPR audio again. The song starts about a minute from the end. The lyrics are actually “He’s a hammer of justice, he’s a hammer of freedom, he’s a hammer of love between my brothers and my sisters all over this land”. (The original lyrics are here.)

  6. In college I knew a songwriter who had a song called “Everybody loves Irony”. After describing a number of funny ironic moments he began going into very sad ones. The key line was, “Everybody loves Irony…and Irony loves everybody too.”
    I think Delay will soon be feelin’ the love.

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