This Guardian article is so typical, I had to share. Reading it, you can’t believe that a Vanity Fair editor would have the gall to write it, much less allow it to be printed.
One of the posted comments captured my reaction precisely: “Jessica, the ‘Americans are stupid’ thing is painfully, painfully, Junior Year Abroad. Stop it. Immediately.”
The Huffington Post placed the link to Coen’s piece next to Mitt Romney’s response to the question “What do you dislike most about America?”
For those of us who weren’t watching, here’s his response:
Romney: Gosh. I love America. I’m afraid I’m going to be at a loss for words because America for me is not just our rolling mountains and hills and streams and great cities. It’s the American people.
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
It’s that optimism we thank Ronald Reagan for. Thank you, Mrs. Reagan, for opening up this place in his memory for us. It is that optimism about this great people that makes this the greatest nation on earth.
/quotation [from the transcript at MSNBC]
Jon Stewart did a segment on the debate, and this was one of the moments he mentioned.
Just one last thing to say about the Coen piece- and why I considered titling this post “You are who you work for”: it was October 2005, I think.
