Maybe Catch Phrases Capture Politicians Best

Re “The Stepford Reporters,” Opinion, Feb. 22: I agree that “voters deserve better than the media’s robotic repetition of cliches.” But it must be a difficult task to report with originality and accuracy on a politician who speaks almost exclusively in cliches (with perhaps an occasional platitude or bromide tossed in). It would take a James Joyce at the height of his powers to comment on anything George W. Bush says (his latest State of the Union was an endless array of cliches strung together with commas and periods) without resorting to banalities at least equal to those of the president.

Ronald Rubin

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