Academics = Bad

McCain, in NH today, said the problem with Obama and his economic plan is that Obama is a "detached academic," and "...the one thing academics are good at is inventing and redefining terms, which is what he’s up to with that phony income tax cut for 95 percent of the American people."

What a wealth of prejudice against higher education is contained in that remark... So it's a problem if you're educated and erudite? It's a problem to have a depth of intellectual knowledge about the subject at hand? It's a problem to base your opinions and strategies on hard, cold analysis rather than emotion (you 'detached academic', you)?

No wonder we have a problem with education in this country. If you're actually well-educated and use the knowledge and skills you've acquired, you're mostly worthy of scorn.

Interview with Palin

CNN did an interview with Sarah Palin the other day. I just got around to reading the transcript. I've heard of softball interviews, but Drew Griffin, the interviewer, was tossing her big fat marshmallows the size of basketballs to hit. This is the fluffiest bit of interviewing I've come across in a long time.

CNN, you should be ashamed. This is what you deem to be journalism?