The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

By Assorted Jackasses from the October 2008 issue

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(August 22, 2008)

Washington Post

Roly-poly syndicated columnist E. J. Dionne Jr. tenders the sad evidence that the bare-knuckle politics of Karl Rove and Benito Mussolini has spread to the once polite environs of the Democratic Party, now to be practiced by Senator Joe Biden, once a 90-pound weakling:

There is nothing dainty in Biden’s approach to politics. “He’s a happy warrior, he loves the whole thing, but he’ll punch you out,” a Democrat who has known him for decades said Saturday. There will be nothing dainty in how McCain and Bush are dealt with during this week’s convention.

(August 25, 2008)

New York Times Magazine

A lesson in recent American history from Professor T. Boone Pickens to the little girl interviewing him for the venerable Times of Manhattan:

Reporter Deborah Solomon: You helped re-elect Bush in ’04 when you gave $3 million to the Swift Boat campaign to discredit John Kerry’s Vietnam service. Do you regret your involvement?

T. Boone Pickens: Why should I?

Solomon: Because it’s such an ugly chapter in American political history.

Pickens: Oh, I see. Well, it was true. Everything that went into those ads was the truth.

Solomon: Really? I thought it was all invented.

(August 3, 2008)

CNN.com

Another paid political announcement from acidulous CNN commentator Jack Cafferty, whose recent disavowals of dipsomania are not very convincing:

Letter to the Editor