The American Spectator

Current Wisdom

Current Wisdom

By Assorted Jackasses from the March 2009 issue

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Mother Jones

The election of Barack H. Obama triggers still more esoteric gibbering from columnist Debra J. Dickerson, about to be swallowed whole by "the biggest delusion in world history," perhaps with the assistance of LSD:

America's election of its first black president has to be followed by a demonstrated and pragmatic drive to improve race relations, or we'll have fallen prey to the biggest delusion in world history. For all the racial ugliness this campaign has exposed, though, and for all that will no doubt follow, it's not only whites who will imperil this process. Obama will have to lead both races in redefining blacks in the American mindset. Unless I'm much mistaken, blacks will face the greatest crisis of imagination.
(January/February 2009)

Good Morning America (ABC)

George Stephanopoulos, clearly in the raptures of the Obama Thrill, the psycho-sociological condition first experienced by Chris Matthews:

"Well, one Obama advisor told me what they like is a combination of Team of Rivals and The Best and the Brightest, which is the David Halberstam book about the incoming Kennedy Administration….We have not seen this kind of combination of star power and brain power and political muscle this early in a cabinet in our lifetimes."
(November 24, 2008)

The Early Show (CBS)

Harry Smith, contemplating adultery and apparently necrophilia:

"As the Nation prepares for President-elect Barack Obama to move into the White House, many Americans can't help but draw similarities between him and the late President John F. Kennedy….The similarities are striking. JFK was 43 when he was inaugurated. Obama is just three years older, bringing a certain youthful vigor to the White House—including young children.…Kennedy had more than his share of charisma and Obama knows how to light up a room. But it's their wives who might be the real superstars."
(November 7, 2008)

Reuters

After 34 years the truth wins out and the band plays on!

"Cello scrotum," a nasty ailment allegedly suffered by musicians, does not exist and the condition was just a hoax, a senior British doctor has admitted. In a letter to prominent medical magazine, the British Medical Journal in 1974, Elaine Murphy reported that cellists suffered from the painful complaint caused by their instrument repeatedly rubbing against their body. The claim had been inspired by reports in the BMJ about the alleged condition "guitar nipple," caused by irritation when the guitar was pressed against the chest.

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