We are given good Froom today, starting with the headline: BUSH IN A SNIT.

[I love the word “snit,” don’t you? It is just about the rudest word you can use without sliding one toke over the line into actual profanity. Making it so applicable here.]

Many good bits in today’s column, including a new Bush “tell”: a word he uses before saying something that even he knows is complete horseshit which is going to be instantly ignored. He says “Listen…”

And who, one wonders, is the unknown “faithful reader” quoted here? Hmmmm..

All of this reminded one faithful reader of my column of that running joke in the movie, “The Princess Bride,” where the evil Vizzini, played by Wallace Shawn, repeatedly splutters “inconceivable!” in the face of the implacable advance of the Dread Pirate Roberts. Eventually, Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya tells him: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

The best bit though, may be this one:

John M. Broder blogs for the New York Times about this new political ad* , which “shows a variety of Americans standing in a park asking questions of a piece of shrubbery. ’So what’s our exit strategy from Iraq?’ the first person asks. ’Why did we let down Katrina victims?’ asks an African-American man. ’Why are we losing so many jobs to overseas?’ asks an elderly citizen. The narrator then says, ’Okay, it’s kind of ridiculous to think you’re ever going to get an answer from this (pause) bush. But it’s also kind of ridiculous to think you’re going to get an answer (cue a picture of President Bush) from this one.’”

Get thee hence, and partake of thy daily Froom. He was truth-telling way before truth-telling was cool, and gets a “Heros & Heroines” caption from me every time.

*Note, I tried providing the link Froom gave and it doesn’t work. Here’s the one the NYT gave, see if that does better. It doesn’t say it’s behind the paywall but it doesn’t work for me either; it might for you.

[shakes tiny fist at NYT in a snit at their paywalls anyway]