The Ash Grey Proclamation
You know who's funny? Niall Ferguson. I for some ungodly reason was looking at the silly things Andrew Sullivan says, and I saw this Niall Ferguson video.
The first half hour seems to be set in a Beckettian Florida retirement center rec room, where Ferguson is plaintively haranguing old people about how pathetic young people are for being interested in politics in general and Barack Obama in particular. The other half hours I didn't watch.
Niall Ferguson wishes to cement his reputation as a Scholarly Historian Whose Ideas Shake the World by doubling down on the McCainiac Surge and, apparently, by being the proxy for McCainiac anti-young people ads of the Grandpa Simpson caliber.
Is there a more egregious academic sellout than Niall Ferguson? I say no.
Niall's being counterfactual again? Someone's got to check his nappy. He's probably done biggies.
Posted by: coozledad | May 11, 2008 at 07:25 AM
He believes that age doesn't matter because Reagan was older during his second term? Alzheimers is a reason to vote for McCain?
Posted by: prudence goodwife | May 11, 2008 at 09:58 AM
“America needs a McCain presidency because John McCain can land fighters on aircraft carriers.”
America’s current president can land fighters on aircraft carriers. How’s that turning out?
Posted by: Bob | May 11, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Is there a more egregious academic sellout than Niall Ferguson? I say no.
Sure there is, but only by a whisker -- Victor Davis Hedley LaMarr That's Hedley Hanson.
Posted by: Tehanu | May 11, 2008 at 09:07 PM
“America needs a McCain presidency because John McCain can land fighters on aircraft carriers.”
America’s current president can land fighters on aircraft carriers. How’s that turning out?
Neither MCain nor GWB ever landed a fighter on a carrier in their lives. McCain at least landed ground attack planes on carriers . . .
Posted by: rea | May 12, 2008 at 01:12 PM