George Will (in an annual pundit ritual, suddenly filing from Europe during the summer) --
Britain, too, is infected with political silliness ... Corbyn is an apple that did not fall far from the tree: His parents met at a rally advocating peace in the Spanish Civil War. They got their wish. Peace came. When Gen. Francisco Franco came to Madrid. Corbyn is a vegetarian who does not own a car. He does own — perhaps Al Gore knows why; Gore went through an earth tones phase — many beige clothes bought from street vendors.
Al Gore and "earth tones" (he forgot the Naomi Wolf part) is the crowning idiocy of the 2000 presidential campaign coverage -- a campaign that would conclude with a historic disputed election, and then 9 months later, after earth tones and sharks, with hijacked planes being used as weapons. So it's really something for Will to refer to that in a column wondering where the silliness of the current crop of politicians came from.
Britain, too, is infected with political silliness ... Corbyn is an apple that did not fall far from the tree: His parents met at a rally advocating peace in the Spanish Civil War. They got their wish. Peace came. When Gen. Francisco Franco came to Madrid. Corbyn is a vegetarian who does not own a car. He does own — perhaps Al Gore knows why; Gore went through an earth tones phase — many beige clothes bought from street vendors.
Al Gore and "earth tones" (he forgot the Naomi Wolf part) is the crowning idiocy of the 2000 presidential campaign coverage -- a campaign that would conclude with a historic disputed election, and then 9 months later, after earth tones and sharks, with hijacked planes being used as weapons. So it's really something for Will to refer to that in a column wondering where the silliness of the current crop of politicians came from.
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