Thursday, December 04, 2008

Please Stop The Stupidity

I'm sick and tired of reading stuff like this:

Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly approve of Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, but will the founding fathers veto this popular addition to Barack Obama's "team of rivals"?

What "rivals"? Hillary Clinton?? Really?? So Reagan had a "team of rivals" because he had George H.W. Bush as his Veep?

There is a word for such a notion, and the word is "stupidity."

All this journalistic penchant for invoking the term "team of rivals" proves is that journalists only read popular history. Why do we all have to suffer because they read so shallowly?

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