Gene Lyons

The latest craze in our deteriorating culture is the self-pity act, as notably displayed by outgoing Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

It's not just Republicans or right-wingers who are engaging in such theatrics. I love this paragraph from Lyons' column:

The cultural left is sometimes as prone to dimwit populism as the right. Witness Al Sharpton's moving an audience to tears by assuring Michael Jackson's children that he wasn't "strange," but his critics were. Sleep-overs with other people's children? Compulsive plastic surgery? Gobbling pills? Mainlining IV drugs? Sorry, reverend, strange doesn't begin to describe the poor soul. But then, nobody ever proposed running Jackson for national office.
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