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Spielberg isn't the first fictionalizer of war to establish his macho bona fides by humiliating a spun-off, pusillanimous version of himself.
On Face the Nation , Bob Schieffer had just finished telling McCain that he didn't think his letters to the FCC on behalf of contributors were scandalous, when McCain delivered an answer designed to warm every liberal journalist's heart--especially coming on the heels of Bush's pusillanimous kowtowing on the issue in the South Carolina GOP debate.
Even more to be censured were the peevish and fretful fretchards, the penny-pinching misards and muglards, the parasitic, hypocritical sycophants known as papelards (after Italian pappalardo one who eats bacon fat), the pilfering pillards , the pusillanimous snivelards , the deceitful trichards , and the loathsome loners called unkards .
Thomas Jefferson Farnham, a New England attorney, wrote in the 1840s, “In a word, the Californians are an imbecile, pusillanimous, race of men, and unfit to control the destinies of that beautiful country” (Weber, 295).