- Sounds About Right

I was in junior high school during the Carter administration. It was really my first moment of political awareness, and our local paper would run a new political cartoon every single day. Since they were critical of Carter they tended toward the conservative side, but I had no idea at the time. All I knew was they were funny.

As a kid I even tried my hand at it myself once. I drew a picture of Carter sitting at a desk, the treaty where he gave away the Panama canal in his hand, and a big lipped frown on his face. Behind him on the wall was a picture of Teddy Roosevelt, the builder of the Canal, smiling broadly and holding his iconic 'big stick'. And rising from the top of Carter's head was a tall Wile E. Coyote style lump, from where Roosevelt had obviously just hit him.

Back then the reporters would ridicule the politicians, not the other reporters. But the reporters have never deserved it as much as they do now.

On Squawk Box this morning, they just announced that Andrew Ross Sorkin, of NY Times fame, is replacing Carl Quintanilla. And it took him exactly 8 minutes to make public his belief that the average American consumer is stupid. Personally I'm shocked that he was able to contain himself for so long. The thing that someone like him will never realize is, no matter how dumb he may believe the Average American to be, they still know way more about what they want for dinner than the government in Washington ever will.

But that won't stop A-hole know-it-all's like him from demanding that the government regulate 'what's for dinner'.