Tom Brokaw is worried that Washington is out of touch. People feel politics “is a closed game that doesn’t address what their real concerns are,” he told Howard Kurtz of the Daily Beast. “It has its own language, it has its own culture.”
Right thought, wrong target. The elder statesman of broadcasting was referring to the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner held on April 28. A more telling and troubling example of this disconnect occurred earlier that week, when author Wendell E. Berry gave the 41st annual Jefferson Lecture for the Humanities.
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Who’s for “Big Government” Now?
President Obama’s surprise endorsement last week of same-sex marriage was more politically conservative than it appears. Yes, the president made the controversial declaration that same-sex couples should have the right to marry. But he also made clear that he was simply expressing a personal opinion, and that the decision to allow same-sex marriage was a decision that had to be made by individual states.
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