Yeah, What He Said
Was just reading what has become my favorite libertarian democrat website this morning, Daily Kos, and one of the contributors put up a great comment about a recent Q&A with Al Gore and how the experience reinforced his hatred of the national media for bastardizing the value of candidates who might actually have more than two or three active brain cells to rub together. Check out both links if you get a chance.
Honestly. Yet another mark of an ongoing era that I will never forgive, and never forget. The elevation by the supposed masters of our discourse of vapid, boozy barroom conversation as the mark of national leadership. Anti-intellectualism embraced now for perhaps twenty five years by pundits that pretend mightily at being erudite, but can only manage it in the confines of their own swelled heads and whose eyes gloss over like those of dolls if a conversation makes it beyond the first few words they can scribble down.Dear pundit class: bite me, and I mean that sincerely. Dear Al Gore: whether you ever run again or not is up to you. But I’m glad to know you, even if only for a ten minute stretch, and I’d give my eyeteeth to have a beer with you.