The Dude Moment

John Podhoretz, Weekly Standard
When Barack Obama gets called “dude” by a comedian with a fake-news cable program whose audience is a fraction of the size of Johnny Carson’s a quarter-century ago, you know we are deeply mired in an era in which American institutions, from the presidency to the late-night talk show, don’t wield the innate power they once naturally possessed. Authority figures themselves have spent so much time stripping themselves of the garb of authority—losing the tie, rolling up the sleeves, dropping the g’s, Tweeting—that...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/11/07/the_dude_moment_245308.html

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