If Charles P. Pierce isn't Chuck Hagel's secret lover, he sure acts like he wants to be. Read his Hagel profile in Esquire:
The rapier is more silver than the moon. The horse, red eyed and fierce in the California night, is rearing up, and its rider points his sword toward the sky, and its tip seems to touch the lunar surface, dimpling it further between the craters.
On the wall near his desk in the Russell Senate Office Building, Chuck Hagel has hung a painting of Zorro done by his brother Mike. "Isn't that a great effect?" asks Hagel. He is informed that his visitor not only dressed up as Zorro for every Halloween from third grade all the way to his freshman year in college but also credits Johnston McCulley's hero for his ongoing career as an aging epee hack. Hagel's laugh lasts just long enough to be heartfelt, and not so long as to be calculated.
Read the rest - and watch the multimedia tribute - at the link above. Then tell me Pierce wouldn't welcome Hagel's silver rapier sliding into his scabbard.
This is supposed to be a political profile, in what used to be a men's magazine. That was long ago, and things do change, of course.
Thanks to Ramesh Ponuru at The Corner for pointing to this story - I think.
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... not that there's anythi... (Below threshold)1. Posted by ijosha | March 8, 2007 9:59 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
... not that there's anything wrong with that.
1. Posted by ijosha | March 8, 2007 9:59 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on March 8, 2007 21:59