Ay, Madam, it has been your Life’s whole Pride of late to be the Common Toast of every Publick Table.
Later in the 1700s it became the norm for any celebrated person, male or female, to be applauded by a toast.
All clear?
All right, media examples:
1. The snow is mostly melted after a near-record storm immobilized much of New York for nearly four days last week. But before non-New Yorkers gloat -- beware -- the Big Apple’s storm offers just a taste of a crop of problems that are likely to be coming your way.
Nationally, billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been the toast of town for cutting budgets -- and resisting raising any kind of taxes on Wall Street. He proposed to that snowed-in folks enjoy the snow day by taking in a Broadway show, but residents of Brooklyn and Queens weren’t lazing about, they were digging themselves out, or waiting for help -- that didn’t come. And that wasn’t just the fault of the polar weather but their mayor’s priorities.
The conservative rumor mill did its best to make sure people never put two and two together. They spent their week blaming the Right’s new favorite target: unionized public employees. As Dave Johnson at the Center for American Progress notes, propaganda machines begins with a simple narrative, repeat it endlessly, and then tie current events to the narrative to drive the point home. The blizzard narrative became that it’s not tax cuts or layoffs that trigger state shortages and service crashes. It’s the workers. Public Services fouled up? It must be public service workers’ foul play.
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