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January 27, 2003
A guy's gotta eat Last week my favorite Goat Girl was at a fisheries conference in DC. She was paying attention to details of how these elite professionals acted, including bigwigs like Gale Norton - looking for social cues and behavioral norms.
She noticed a bigwig who arrived late at a big banquet. Knowing that he hadn't had dinner, they got him a plate of food, but he couldn't really eat. He wouldn't want to look like a pig. He wasn't really there to eat. The honcho was there on business, and had lots of people watching him and talking to him. He manage to nibble a few discreet bites between conversations. He could always call down later for some room service so he could properly eat.
A day after this conversation, I found Al Sharpton on C-Span. [He had been in the same hotel at the time of the fisheries conference, as it happens, for NARAL's Roe anniversary activities.] C-Span cameras were following presidential candidate Sharpton around New Hampshire.
He stopped at a college for lunch with some students. They all sat around a table in the cafeteria asking him these serious policy questions. They all seemed to be pretty impressed with the opportunity to ask important questions of this nationally known presidential candidate.
Meanwhile, there sat Sharpton stuffing his face, talking with his mouth full. He had him a big old sandwich, and he was wolfing down every bite of it as if he hadn't eaten this week. It was like the classic Phil Hartman parody of candidate Clinton jogging into a McDonald's on SNL. You really have to see it to believe it.
Allow me to paraphrase. "Rev. Sharpton, what can be done to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestenians?" Reply: "First thing (chew, chew) is...snort, snort... the Israelis have to...[indecipherable chewing sounds]." Then he gobbled down all the potato chips. Fortunately he refrained from eating any of the students.
Now, Rand knows I'm in no position to criticize anyone for gluttony. It's not like I don't know how to strap on the feed bag. He's got appetites.
But he's also got a C-Span camera right there recording every moment for national broadcast, to say nothing of the eager young voters sitting right there hanging on his every word. Yet there he sat giving legitimacy to every crappy thing every detractor has ever said about him being a big fat pig. After all these years in the media spotlight, does the guy not have any clue what this looks like? Hit the drive thru at Burger King an hour from now if you're really needing to get your grub on, but at least pretend to have a little bit of dignity in front of the cameras.
Sharpton doesn't have enough sense not to talk with his mouth (very) full in front of tv cameras and voters, but he wants to be president of the United States. Even if you were a cheese eating commie who agreed with his general views, how could you possibly take him seriously?
