More Kabuki

January 12th, 2006 by Roy Berman
Mutantfrog


Meaningless charade




The moribund hearings have been as predictable as a Kabuki drama. Barring a major miscue, Alito’s inscrutability will carry him to the Supreme Court



As predictably as a Kabuki drama, the media is using the metaphor of a kabuki drama to describe boring politics.


It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the Daniels/Eichwenwald Kabuki dance reflected a conscious effort to avoid invoking the homosexual angle in the story.



Newsbusters refuses to watch gay kabuki.

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