Lou Dobbs on WTOP radio Monday when asked what he would do following his departure from CNN: “I want to speak ‘truth to power’.” Just what the hell does that mean?
Jonah Goldberg calls it a phrase of Quaker origins adopted by campus radicals, Hollywood gadflies and establishment journalists, as something of an abracadabra slogan to justify criticizing government or big corporations.
He’s right. Every time I hear the phrase, I think of some pompous airhead declaring that he/she has an exclusive contract for the truth.
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