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Like a thinking man's Johnny Apple, he surveys various Kennedy and Johnson hacks--even tracking down that familiar standby, the unnamed "Washington veteran"--and reaps a harvest of self-congratulatory harrumphing along the lines of "I come from an era when loyalty and gratitude were regally honored," not like these young whippersnappers, etc.
With a self-congratulatory smirk, the show presents the most bullying reactionary ideas as if they were progressive . It's the naughtiness of the privileged that runs something like this: Everyone says it's wrong to club kittens with cinder blocks.
Charles Krauthammer makes this case in the post-election issue of the Weekly Standard . ("No Excuses, No Alibis," declares the editors' self-congratulatory headline, as if pinning the entire blame on one scapegoat deserves a medal for intellectual valor.)
Payne freezes on her face at its most nauseatingly self-congratulatory, while McAllister recalls (in voice-over narration) how his fellow teacher and best friend, Dave Novotny (Mark Harelik), initiated a wildly destructive affair with her and got himself booted out of the school and his marriage.
I'd have welcomed her self-congratulatory sarcasm in Instinct , but here it made my back hair stand up.