Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Letterman's Mandate

This morning I came across probably the best line I've ever read on a blog. With regard to the assertion that David Letterman is "a proverbial court jester, a clownish figure with a mandate to prick the powerful, not set himself up as a model of virtue," Ann Althouse replied,

But the question is sexual harassment, so: Ask not whether he has a mandate to prick the powerful, ask whether he has a prick to mandate the powerless.

No comments:

Post a Comment