Simon Gets His

The “roast” is an American rite in which an illustrious guest is elaborately insulted by his best friends, who thereupon require their victim to rise from his disgrace and fling back the insults with redoubled venom and superior marksmanship, in victorious vengeance. The Gridiron Club in Washington has been doing that sort of thing for decades, as has the Circus Saints and Sinners of New York City.

The newest established roasting party is the annual dinner of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. Last year they did a trial run on M. Stanton Evans, the beloved sage of D Street who has raised hack journalism to the level of a pseudoscience. Stan’s rebuttal, in which he managed a forthright defense of hamburgers and found weirdo pinko commie creeps under every stone, has gone down, and down, as a classic of American oratory.

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The “roast” is an American rite in which an illustrious guest is elaborately insulted by his best friends, who thereupon require their victim to rise from his disgrace and fling back the insults with redoubled venom and superior marksmanship, in victorious vengeance. The Gridiron Club in Washington has been doing that sort of thing for decades, as has the Circus Saints and Sinners of New York City.

The newest established roasting party is the annual dinner of the Washington, D.C. chapter of Young Americans for Freedom. Last year they did a trial run on M. Stanton Evans, the beloved sage of D Street who has raised hack journalism to the level of a pseudoscience. Stan’s rebuttal, in which he managed a forthright defense of hamburgers and found weirdo pinko commie creeps under every stone, has gone down, and down, as a classic of American oratory.