The War Against Cliche

A notorious right-winger on an e-mail list to which I subscribe chose to denounce critics of the administration's torture policy in the following terms:

This sort of US-adversary-and-establishment-bien pensant-media-embracing, Republican-administration-bashing isn't libertarian. It's coastal elitist, conformist leftism.

Since I have never met the good sir in person, I'm going to count this as evidence in favor of the hypothesis that he is not a human being but a spam machine programmed to clog inboxes with a litany of jargon that was trite before it ever found its way on to a page. Whether human or machine, he (it) is responsible for perhaps the single most cliche-ridden declarative sentence in the history of the English language.