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The Words of Groucho Marx as Applied to Tom Suozzi

posted by 1 West Street
Mon, 06/19/2006 - 11:04pm

Tom should have read Grouch Marx before he stepped in over his head.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Groucho Marx


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Submitted by Barry Popik on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 1:26am.
8 September 1946, New York Times, pg. SM16:
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly, and applying unsuitable remedies."--Sir Ernest Benn.
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27 October 1948, THE ERA (Bradford, PA), pg. 4, col. 3:
IMPOLITIC POLITICS
London (AP) -- Definition by publisher Sir Ernest Benn at a Society of Individualists luncheon: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it wrongly and applying it incorrectly."

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Submitted by Gate (not verified) on Tue, 06/20/2006 - 6:08am.
But, who would bother reading a piece whose raison d'etre is Westy applying the words of Ernest Benn to Tom Suozzi; who the fuck is Ernest Benn and why am I supposed to care? I wouldn't even bother reading if Westy were applying the words of Ernest Benn to Eliot Spitzer. It would be like Anne Coulter talking about an Englishman on a fox hunt: the unreadable descrbing the unspeakable in the pursuit of the inedible.  BORING!!!! Or as Groucho would say, I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member.  
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