“He’s trying his best. He’s going to do things that people feel are not right or violating one right or another. But at the end of the day, he represents, I think, the best of the type of people that I would like to see running the government. He has to play that game, the political game. They all do. They make statements they can’t honor because they’re impossible to honor. Once you get into that Washington machinery, you’ve just got to figure it out and swim against the current and grab onto this rock and that, and just try to maintain your course.”That's Robert De Niro in a quote pulled from Politico I saw on Twitchy.
That is a sampling of actor-logic where the conclusions of syllogisms are stated first as premises.
Minus five points for the use of "period," a term intended to bluster with unearned authority, and twenty points off for the use of "end of the day," a metaphor so dead it identifies its user as zombie.
No, Robert DeNiro, it is not seen that he is a good person, period, so Robert DeNiro's analysis is wanting, although his metaphor of presidency as job in the unreality of film is more apt than he intended.
They tear him up at Twitchy and at Politico. De Niro's heartfelt defense at Politico is very sad.
