by Smitty (h/t Scott’s Slant)
Alternate title: ‘Hey, Contessa, if you’re going to play the Appeal to Authority card, you may want to ensure your authority is credible’.
As a younger chap, I had some misapprehension that wisdom and intellect grew in a linear way as one assumed higher office. That is to say, by default, the further up the organization chart you go, the smarter folks must be. Yeah, I outgrew that daft notion somewhere in the Clinton Administration.
Contessa, there is no Easter Bunny. Also, the list of Purportedly Smart Folks you enumerate in this clip may, in fact, in fact be brighter than you, but not by much.