Can you tell me the effect of 'comma' on 'the'?

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Let the clumsy,the spineless,the alibi artist stand aside.

It can be rewritten as Let the clumsy,the spineless and alibi artist stand aside.Am I right if one the is omitted when placed and.

Also, what does it means by 'alibi artist'?

Another example: *He is the handsome and smart PM of USA.*We do not put the with smart.

When Pittsburgh industrialist H.C. Fownes built the Oakmont Country Club in 1903, he declared: "Let the clumsy, the spineless, the alibi artist, stand aside!" It's a somewhat "dated" declaratory style today, which is why you'll find different versions in later regurgitations. — FumbleFingers, Commented Jun 18, 2016 at 13:07
regurgitate - to give back or repeat, especially something not fully understood or assimilated. I mean people tend to adjust the wording slightly to conform to more modern idiomatic phrasing. — FumbleFingers, Commented Jun 18, 2016 at 14:04

Peter · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-18 15:06:01Z

Your sentence

Let the clumsy, the spineless, the alibi artist stand aside.

refers to

the clumsy artist
the spineless artist
the alibi artist

if you changed it to

Let the clumsy, the spineless and alibi artist stand aside.

it would refer to

the clumsy artist
the spineless and alibi artist

So the two are not equivalent.

An "alibi" is an excuse for not being at the scene of a crime.
So an "alibi" artist could be understood to be someone who is

an excuse for an artist

the speaker seems to be attacking people who claim to be artists but are not really.

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