![]() THE GODS MUST BE (SAID TO BE) CRAZY! Our journalistic gods are nuts. Krugman almost said so: // link // print // previous // next //
FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009 Below, some final thoughts: Below, we offer some final thoughts about our topic for the week. To read all four part of our week-long report, see THE DAILY HOWLER, 6/4/09. EPILOGTHE GODS MUST BE (SAID TO BE) CRAZY: How unintelligenthow reflexively dumbis our journalistic elite? Yesterday, the White House released the text of many past speeches by Sonia Sotomayor. And sure enough! In 1999, the judge said this to New York states Women's Bar Association:
In this speech, Sotomayor was discussing gender alonenot ethnicity. A fairly obvious likelihood thus became more clear. When Sotomayor spoke about the possible role of physiology in her famous speech from 2001, she was likely speaking about gender then too, not about ethnicity. We discussed this point in yesterdays post. See THE DAILY HOWLER, 6/4/09. Sotomayor was likely speaking about gender, not about ethnicity. This likelihood would have occurred to almost anyoneexcept to those who carry cards as members of our least impressive elite. Charles Krauthammer and Tucker Carlson (and others) have thundered about this murky remark; they were quite sure that the lady Latina just had to be talking ethnicity. Here was Carlson, playing the fool again in a Post on-line chat:
He had read her commentsin context, no less! Sadly, he was just too dumb to imagine what those comments likely meant. No, you cant get dumber than that. But this is the norm within this strange groupwithin our D-plus elite. This group has made a joke of our lives for many years now. Carlson is often spectacularly dumbbut TV producers think he looks good, so TV constantly hires him. Example? In 1999, CNN decided to twin Tucker Carlson with his equally hapless namesake, Margaret Carlson (no relation). All through Campaign 2000, they appeared together as a team on the influential program, Inside Politics.
How inane were the Carlsons, ten years ago? To recall one session from October 1999, go aheadjust click here. They were daft on demand all through Campaign 2000but thats the norm in their hapless elite. Ten years later, the Carlsons are both still in the business.
Were modestly under the weather todayand so, we think well leave it at that. But why are the Carlsons still on TV? Go ahead! Revisit their nonsense from 1999. Your country has been pushing its way down a daft, broken trail for a very long time now.
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