Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Slumlord Millionaire
Somehow the resemblance did not occur to me—Attaturk's was the first place I saw it pointed out—but I think Michael Tomasky has the best line on yesterday's wheelchair-bound Cheney:
As many have observed, Cheney in his wheelchair resembled no one so much as Mr. Potter in the later scenes of It's a Wonderful Life. Makes you wonder whether he stole some TARP money on the way out the door.I'd be harsher than Tomasky when it comes to Rick Warren, though. As I listened to him, I was thinking that you could draw a ten-mile radius around most any house in America and probably find within it half a dozen working preachers, ministers, priests, rabbis, etc. who could have a given a far more elegant (and more ecumenical, as the occasion demanded) invocation. Why on Earth that guy is famous at all remains a mystery to me.
