It’s bad analogy week among the nation’s pundits! What’s the very worst one? It’s a hard, hard call:
- According to Michael Gerson, asking a pro-choice politician to help implement pro-choice policies is like…asking a rabbi to serve pork. Apparently, this is because Michael Gerson has a monopoly over determining what the legal implications of certain elements of Roman Catholic morality should be.
- According to Will Saletan, touting the scientific value of ending the Bush administration’s foolish and ludicrously incoherent stem cell policies is similar to Dick Cheney defending torture. Apparently, this is…sorry, this argument doesn’t even make enough sense for me to mockingly summarize it.
- According to Amity “Data is the Plural of Tendentious Anecdotes” Shales, an innocuous bureaucratic position crated by the Bush administration shows that the Obama administration is causing us to live in the Matrix. I dunno, but I will say that reading Shales reminds me more the the sky-high pretension-to-achievement ratios of the interminable sequels.
To me, they’re all winners!
—Scott Lemieux