Alleged Humor Writer Gets Bitter: 'John Boehner Cries. He's Not the Only One'

"Crib Sheet" columnist Henry Alford gets personal in the Styles section: "Pranksters hijack Sarah Palin's and Glenn Beck's Facebook pages. The giveaway was all the correct grammar."

Clay Waters

November 4, 2010 - 2:33pm

Some unbecoming post-election bitterness is taking hold in hip liberal enclaves, including the Times' attempt at hipness, the Thursday Styles section. Henry Alford's weekly "Crib Sheet [1]," subtitled "The 10 Things To Talk About This Weekend," is usually too glib and lightweight to bother criticizing, but this week almost half his entries had an anti-Republican punch line.

2. John Boehner cries. He's not the only one. (The print edition softens the joke: "John Boehner cries. His shirt is stained orange.")

3. Katrina Is Just Another Woman's Name: George W. Bush says the all-time low of his presidency was Kanye West saying, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

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7. Pranksters hijack Sarah Palin's and Glenn Beck's Facebook pages. The giveaway was all the correct grammar.

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9. The spectral, doomy Mary Matalin should guest-star on "Glee" as Sue Sylvester's Endora.

Publication: Articles [2]

Division: TimesWatch [3]

Tags: HenryAlford [4], SarahPalin [5], GlennBeck [6], MaryMatalin [7], JohnBoehner [8], GeorgeW.Bush [9], TimesWatch [10], NewYorkTimes [11], NewYorkTimesbias [12], liberalmediabias [13]

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/fashion/04Crib.html?src=twr&scp=1&sq=henry%20alford&st=cse
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[3] http://mrc.org/division/timeswatch
[4] http://mrc.org/tags/henryalford
[5] http://mrc.org/tags/sarahpalin
[6] http://mrc.org/tags/glennbeck
[7] http://mrc.org/tags/marymatalin
[8] http://mrc.org/tags/johnboehner
[9] http://mrc.org/tags/georgewbush-0
[10] http://mrc.org/tags/timeswatch
[11] http://mrc.org/tags/newyorktimes
[12] http://mrc.org/tags/newyorktimesbias
[13] http://mrc.org/tags/liberalmediabias
[14] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org