“Bob Dylan being a singer instead of a professional writer, I don’t think he has a chance. So I’ll pick Murakami since, for one thing, he seems to have been in the running for ever. However, I’ll be happy to eat crow if Dylan wins.”
In other words, hurrah and halleluiah, Bob.
Fantastic, isn’t it, that a non-conforming singer and songwriter has won the most prestigious prize for literature?
And in the process, making the act of eating crow a delicious experience for many who have doubted his winning, I am sure.
A sign, a small sign, perhaps, of The Times They are A-changin’?
All right, more media examples of people who are forced to eat the crow when they admit to making a mistake, though perhaps not as happily as the speaker does in our example.
1. When Barack Obama was up by 4 percentage points in the polls, the media said the race was a dead heat.
Now that Obama is down by 4 percentage points in the polls, the media say he is dead meat.
The media giveth, and the media taketh away. Fickle be the name of the media.
The media mind-set is dependent not on fact, but on attitude. And now comes a man who can change that attitude: Joe Biden.
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Say it ain’t all on you, Joe, as you prepare to meet the Janesville Juggernaut, Paul Ryan, in the “Who Gets Lucky in Kentucky?” vice presidential debate at Centre College in Danville on Thursday.
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