It’s a truism in America that people advocating just about anything will try to claim the Founding Fathers for their cause. I find this sentence in a hard-selling letter soliciting donations to D.C.’s public radio station, WETA, particularly amusing:
Since the time of Thomas Jefferson, there have been three great American institutions of public learning: public schools; public libraries; and now, public broadcasting.
The gratuitous name drop of Jefferson and the obvious self-contradiction combine to make that about the most vacuous sentence I’ve ever read. The letter did include some very handy address labels though, so I guess it all evens out.
I was just chatting with Benjamin Franklin and he agrees that my political philosophy is better than yours.
Comment by Ben Stark — February 22, 2005 @ 6:09 am
That’s hilarious. Good eye if you were the one that spotted that.
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