Mark Steyn was
interested in the rest of the “yukfest
of history’s biggest idiots” by the current occupant of The Oval Office.
He notes that
many of the zingers sounded as though they had been swiped from one of those “Top
Twenty Useful Quotes for Forward-Looking Inspirational Speakers” and from
Wikiquotes.
President
Pantload said, “There always have been folks who are the naysayers and don’t
believe in the future, and don’t believe in trying to do things differently.
One of my predecessors, Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the
telephone, ‘It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?’ That’s
why he’s not on Mount Rushmore—because he’s looking backwards. He’s not looking
forwards. He’s explaining why we can’t do something, instead of why we can do
something.”
Nan Card, Curator
of Manuscripts at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, quickly put the kibosh
on TPM by informing them that President Hayes had
the first telephone in the White House, and the first typewriter, and Edison
visited him to demonstrate the phonograph.
So the errand
boy sent by grocery clerks may have gotten a room full of chuckles from the
blissfully ignorant audience, but the citation about President Hayes was bullshit
a lie.
Steyn writes, "A great nation
needs successful self-made businessmen and purveyors of scholarly
excellence. It’s not clear why it needs a smug over-credentialed President
Solyndra to recycle Crowd-Pleasing for Dummies as a keynote address."
They all
laughed at Christopher Columbus, they all laughed at Edison and Steyn believes
that history will laugh at us for ever taking this president seriously.
Amen, brother
Steyn, amen.
This just more of his Strawman arguments that he is famous for. "Some people." Dead giveaway.
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