Five Worst Op-Eds
December 28th, 2011 - 11:02 am
Really enjoyed this Washington Examiner column by Gene Healy naming the worst op-eds of 2011. I’m sure he had a lot to choose from, but he seems to have selected well. I especially liked his knock on David Brooks for his New York Times column, “The Modesty Manifesto:”
This piece from the Times’s resident “National Greatness Conservative,” won largely on the strength of one line: “Our lives are given meaning by the service we supply to the nation.” What can you say? Sounds better in the original German?
Probably does, at that. But read the whole thing here.
In other news, Newt Gingrich has threatened to “…destroy the Evil Umpire”, in what is believed to be another of Newts attempts to say something pandering to …”a rabid fiscal[ly] conservative base” and some say is a vague and backhanded promise to do some real damage to all the regulations restricting small businesses. Critics and pundits are already calling it the “Evil Umpire” speech.
Also, President 0bama has now finalized and is ready to unveil his new “Fat Tax”, on the morbidly obese 1% who, in his words- “are living and chewing on the fat of others”. The bill is expected to be introduced on Friday and is co-sponsored unconstitutionally by the first lady.
It’s the Fat Tax, people! And it’s coming your way. And you can’t get out of the way because you’re such an obvious political target! You’ll get yours, in the form of celery and carrots! And you won’t get to have seconds!
Didn’t Kennedy say the same thing?