Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking

The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.

Answers to Questions Nobody Is Asking
“How to Spend $1.25 Trillion”–headline, NPR.org, Aug. 26

Try Not to Think of an Elephant
The Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson weighs in on the Glenn Beck/Lincoln Memorial kerfuffle:

That Beck is staging his all-about-me event at the very spot where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his immortal “I Have a Dream” speech–and on the 47th anniversary of that historic address–is obviously intended to be a provocation. There’s no need to feel provoked, however; the appropriate response is to ignore him.

Robinson then writes a whole column about Beck–which we suppose qualifies as ignoring him if one assumes nobody reads Eugene Robinson’s columns.

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