After reading over the coverage of Jesse Helms’ passing on a prominent conservative blog, it seems apt to quote Sean Connery in Goldfinger, and say that it is “shocking, positively shocking” that the conservative movement has trouble winning over black voters.
Unless Chotiner electrocuted Kathryn Jean Lopez in a bathtub shortly before writing this post, he had no business using that Bond quote. What’s worse, I’m assuming he was instead trying to make a reference to the phenomenon that spurred the local colloquialism “Claude Rains Shock” — one of the most quoted film scenes in current circulation.
I’m entirely on board with the content of the post, but I worry about a world where bloggers feel no obligation to fact-check their pop-culture quotes.
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