Monday, June 20, 2005

TNR brings us some highlights of Master Ben's Virgin-a Monologues.

It seems Ben's reportage involve probing oral examinations of fellow Harvard men:

Shapiro's quasi-sociological examination of his peers is especially preposterous. It seems the only twenty-somethings he interviewed were his classmates at Harvard Law School, and many of the stories he recounts are hard to believe. The thought that young men might exaggerate tales of their sexual exploits apparently never dawned on Shapiro.

Especially Harvard Law men.

Ben also horns in on Mike Gallagher's schtick, ethnic dialect humor:

John Kerry "had to bus' a few caps in Vietnam, you know, to protect the bruthas and all"

The reviewer concludes:

The day is coming when the Shapiros of the world will have to criticize the Republican Party or surrender any claim to intellectual honesty.

Surrender? The boy gave it away when he was thirteen.

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