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#21: Yes, read the Miami Herald article. Or, better yet, the foreignpolicy.com article. The latter tells you that the online transcript has been changed relative to the actual speech. "Confirmation Bias." I'm afraid that those words do not mean what you think they mean....

I'm surprised that no one pulled up the Sadly,No! piece on the faux Welshman:

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/002635.html

Whenever I hear his name I think of that picture.
It's mean, I know. But it matches his rhetoric.

I was a graduate student at Yale. The undergraduates there are uniformly bright and ethnically diverse. They are also children of privilege; half of their families receive no financial aid. This leads to fundamental blind spots when these talented folks are solely relied on for tasks like political commentary.

The best example that I can think of is the offhand comment by Yglesias that there is no reason at all not to raise the retirement age. After all, many of the professionals that he knows continue to work well past 70! Steve Gilliard had to wield the righteous clue stick to remind Dalton-schooled Matt that retirement means something different for a pipefitter than it does for an English professor. Style is only part of the problem.

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