The first in a series of reflections on the statements that Russell Gallo, Republican State Committee Member, District Leader and Member of the Brooklyn GOP Executive Committee, and "President" of the "Official" Brooklyn Young Republicans might be heard to say into the blogosphere on blog-talk radio, post on this, that or the other blog, twitter to his "friends", whisper in very guarded circumstances to his confederates or otherwise express so as to come to my attention
Item first: Yesterday (20 Jan) Mr. Gallo made this tweet to some of his friends in the twitterverse, "Russell C. Gallo@RussGallo .... I like bipartisanship! The republicans and conservatives shud [sic] always work together!"
In addition to the superficial witticism about bipartisanship having something to do with the Conservatives rather than the Democrats, Mr Gallo's apparent little bit of whimsy truly rises to an entirely different and more subtle plane entirely. You see, Russell Gallo is making an additional insiders' joke to his closest "Young Republican" friends as well as to one of his closest friends and allies inside the Brooklyn GOP hierarchy. Gallo is speaking to these friends with literal irony. Since he is speaking among his "Young Republican" and other insider brethren, his ironic statement is in effect a charge that the Conservative Party in Brooklyn and elsewhere does not "always work together" with Republicans. Of course, since his remarks lack dramatic irony, he is practicing an art much as a court jester might, using the well-known opposite meaning of his words both for humor and to escape any condemnation for disloyalty.
We have it on good authority that Gallo and company are intensely jealous of the influence, prestige and patronage enjoyed by the Conservatives. This little bit of word play by Gallo: "... I like bipartisanship! The republicans and conservatives shud [sic] always work together..." only confirms what many already know. In addition to demonstrating a proper and virtuous level of pro-Republican partisanship, it bespeaks both sharp humor and keen insight by good old RG.
2 comments:
Are you going to talk an tell about all the Gallo-isms from the GOP radio scpecially the million times he Garrantied that Romney wood beat President Barack H. Obama
UPDATE: Gallo's hearty response to a call-in by Liam McCabe, President of the newly-named "Brooklyn South Conservative Club" (formerly known as the "Eugene Walsh Conservative Club") to the Brooklyn GOP (Blog-talk) Radio Show might be signs of a thaw in relations between Gallo and the Brooklyn Conservatives.
It's what Gallo and some other GOP insiders think and say behind closed doors that counts, though. We'll get you the latest on that aspect of things ASAP.
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